Tiger eyes new putter in bid to end five-year win drought

Tiger Woods, bolstered by surprising power in his return from back surgery, has tested new putters while hosting the US PGA Quicken Loans National in hopes of ending a five-year win drought.

The 14-time major winner plays his 11th event of the year, and only planned tuneup for next month's British Open, starting Thursday at TPC Potomac.

"I'm pretty excited the way I've hit the golf ball. I've done some things I haven't done in over a decade," Woods said Wednesday.

"No one has had clubhead speeds as what I've had on the tour this year with a lower back fusion. These are things that I didn't know I could do and all of a sudden I'm doing it." What the 42-year-old American hasn't done lately, however, is show the sharp putting that saw him share second at the Valspar Championship and fifth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March.

"If I have the same putting stroke I had earlier in the year with the ball-striking I've had, that would be where I want to get to," Woods said. "Just got to put both those things together at the same time."
"I put it in early last week. Tried a bunch of different shapes and sizes," Woods said. "I tried and tried to come up with something that I felt I could swing and trust." - A 'gift' just to play -
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