Woods uncharacteristically also missed other birdie chances but insisted his short game was in order.
So yeah, my short game is better than it has been in a while.
Spain's Sergio Garcia, who is a shot clear of Montgomerie on 12 under, bemoaned his short game.
"I've got my short game back to where I want to have it, " he said after his round.
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"I've been hitting the ball a long way, it's going silly distances and my short game has been good, " he said.
He drives it out there as far he can and if he misses the fairway, he counts on his short game to bail him out.
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They should do the reverse, he advised, because the short game is the one area where they can more equally compete with their stronger, longer juniors.
The Duke and Duchess ended their public engagements at the Donald Dewar leisure centre, where they played each other in a short game of table tennis.
Mr. Penick observed that older golfers often spend far too many practice hours trying to bang out long shots on the range while neglecting the short game.
As an avid reader of the late Harvey Penick's sage instruction books, I also determined to spend most of my practice time working on my short game and putting.
It left him six shots clear of defending champion and World No.1 Rory McIlroy, who again battled an errant driver and had to rely on his short game to stay in touch.
But if you're looking to try to narrow things down a bit, it makes sense to look at patient, calm, in-form players with solid putting strokes and a mastery of the short game.
It has similar tight fairways but the rough is not penal, and the dome-like greens form the main defence, surrounded by close-cropped grass, placing an emphasis on accurate irons and a top-class short game.
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Everything is starting to come together as far as my driving goes, since working with Butch Harmon, my ball striking has been much better and my short game is as good as it's ever been.
Guan compensated with an uncanny short game.
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And Kraft reveals a sparkling short game.
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"Unless you have a coach by then guiding you in the fundamentals, showing you how to practice and work on your short game, and taking you through the rough spots, it's going to be pretty tough, " he said.
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Rush Creek also just added a 9-hole par-3 short course, the perfect add-on to the regular round to make a bigger day of golf out of the trip, or a great way to warm up and get your short game in sync before playing.
Thompson holed a 50-foot eagle putt on the third hole, relied on a superb short game around the toughest part of the golf course to build a four-shot lead, and hung on for a two-shot win over Geoff Ogilvy that takes him places he always wanted to be.
Politics is always a trade off between the long game and the short game, of course, and even worse, they might think, is that it's likely that in a few years' time - with an election around the corner - many of those indicators may still not make happy reading for them.
Can he do what Brady does and pick away with a short passing game?
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"It's not difficult, but it's very complex, " said Dave Pelz, the former aerospace engineer turned short-game guru.
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Pelz, a former NASA scientist who holds more than a dozen patents with golf equipment, is a world-renowned short-game instructor.
Some short-game instructors, including Dave Pelz, already teach that the stability of an anchored stroke is a significant advantage for most players.
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Some can be adapted into games against other players, especially short-game drills.
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"When pros aren't putting well they're trying to force the ball into the hole instead of rolling the ball down their line and letting the hole catch it, " said Kevin Weeks, another notable short-game guru.
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It's hard to pinpoint the moment exactly, amid the echoing cheers and crashing surf at the Ocean Course here, but while an aging Woods was battling demons and salvaging pars three groups ahead, the youthful McIlroy was posting birdies, banging drives 60 yards past his peers and conjuring short-game magic the way Woods used to do.
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