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Sean O'Hair on Tiger Woods' problems: 'I've been there'
Sean O'Hair understands what it's like to lose your game. He also knows what it takes to get it back.
O'Hair made a somewhat surprising run at the Valspar Championship last week, winding up in the playoff with Patrick Reed and eventual winner Jordan Spieth. It's been a long road back to relevanace for O'Hair, who has four PGA Tour wins, but none since 2011. O'Hair, who first won on Tour in 2005 at age 22, had to go through the Web.com Tour Finals gauntlet to retain his status. He got into the Tampa-area event on a sponsor's exemption.
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Perhaps that makes O'Hair a good person to talk to about Tiger Woods' struggles. Woods, who said Feb. 11 that he won't play on the PGA Tour again until his game is "tournament ready," is skipping this week's Arnold Palmer Inviational, an event he's won eight times. Woods' short game is in shambles, he's been spraying drives 50 yards off target and it all came together for a career-worst 82 in the second round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Woods hopes to play in the Masters. If he's going to start at Augusta National, O'Hair believes Woods has to get his mind right.
"I just think that he's lost," O'Hair said Tuesday at Bay Hill. "The only reason why I say that is because I see it in his eyes, and I see it in how he's walking and I see it in how he's playing because that's where I've been. I've been living it."
O'Hair, who battled a swing change that he eventually had to undo, doesn't think his problem is mechanical -- which may make getting to the solution even more difficult.
"I just think that his mind is just a little clouded and I don't think it has anything to do with his golf swing," he said. "I just think there's something there that's just bothering him, and I think once he addresses that he'll be right back where he was."
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