So, before this season, he had his foot issue fixed? That was this year, not last year? While he may be fully healed, injuries pretty much always result in changes to mechanics.
Before worlds, I remember him challenging the lead, but frequently leaving himself big putts. So Ricky is putting at 30-40' and Paul was 60' out or something like that. He would hang tough, but repeatedly having to play the big putt takes a toll.
So if his long game was off just a tad, that put a lot of pressure on his putting. While from a scoring standpoint, it was the putts that were costing him and so he's been tweaking that and trying to get it to superhero level and it's having kind of the opposite result.
If you go back to Northwood, it was the tee pad that ruined him.
Before worlds, I remember him challenging the lead, but frequently leaving himself big putts. So Ricky is putting at 30-40' and Paul was 60' out or something like that. He would hang tough, but repeatedly having to play the big putt takes a toll.
So if his long game was off just a tad, that put a lot of pressure on his putting. While from a scoring standpoint, it was the putts that were costing him and so he's been tweaking that and trying to get it to superhero level and it's having kind of the opposite result.
If you go back to Northwood, it was the tee pad that ruined him.