Tiger insists he's close to regularly contending
Tiger Woods hits from the fourth tee during the final round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Sunday, May 13, 2012, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
BETHESDA, Md. — Tiger Woods insists he is close to contending on a weekly basis, even if recent results suggest otherwise.
"I think I'm headed in the right direction," Woods said at Congressional Country Club, where he was promoting the AT&T National which takes place June 28 to July 1.
"I'm going to try and continue to improve in incremental steps in every facet of my game and try to make every facet of my game more efficient."
Woods has one PGA Tour victory this year, but his game has hit a slump recently with a missed cut in Charlotte as well as 40th-place finishes at The Masters and Players Championship.
"I've just played three events — I won a tournament (four) tournaments ago," Woods said. "If I get more efficient at what I'm doing, then I'm going to win golf tournaments."
Woods won at Congressional in 2009 before the event moved to suburban Philadelphia to ...
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