Tiger Acknowledges Technology Helping To "Stack up" Fields

Tiger Woods added a little more about technology and equipment to his answer about deeper fields and majors in his press conference.

I think I must ask Mr. Dawson about how this stacks up with the Joint Statement of Principles in today's R&A press conference!

Q. Given the difficulty of the golf course and the cast of legends that have won here, do you think it's less likely that we'll see an outsider coming from the pack to win?

TIGER WOODS: You know, you probably can't say that given the fact that over the past, what, five years or so, four or five years, that we've had first-time winners at virtually every single Major. The fields are so deep now and the margin between the first player and the last player in the field is not that big anymore; it's very small. I think that's one of the reasons why you're seeing so many first-time winners. Also the equipment has changed quite a bit over the years. The equipment, it's so precise now. This allows guys to basically stack up. When you get that combined with better, more athletic players, you're going to get guys who are winning for the first time.