John Cook on Tiger

 Q. How would you describe your relationship with Tiger now and how do you think he'll do? You know, he's gone through a couple of swing changes previously in his career and now he's going through another one.

JOHN COOK: I spent all day Tuesday with him. At this time last year, we had not connected at all, but he was gone doing his things and getting his life in order. You know, I saw him just after we left here and had a great chat. Everything's okay. I said, You don't have to explain anything to me, I'm your friend, I want the best for you.
It's been that way. I haven't seen a lot of him because we've been on different coasts and all, but we keep in touch quite a bit. I did get to spend most of the day Tuesday with him and he's excited about what he's doing. It's just a matter of getting it onto the golf course under competition and what he and Sean have been working on. He now really has a great understanding. As of like Monday, it clicked, it finally clicked to him on what exactly where the face of the club needs to be at certain points, which really sounded to me like kind of old school Butch, but with a better face angle on his backswing, which means, wow, that's something really good.
But he was really feeling something special on Tuesday and it was really -- you know, just to stop and watch and see the excitement he had on his face and the flight of the golf ball as to what he was explaining to me what was going on in San Diego and Dubai. He said this is -- it's way better and way different. And this only happened on Monday and Tuesday he was just feeling it even more.
So we had a great chat about it and he is so happy in his life outside of golf. Everything couldn't be better. He really -- he wants to play well so badly that he's become one of us, one of those. He never had to struggle like that. He's 35 or 36 now and things happen. He wants it so bad, now he needs to get it onto the golf course and trust it and relax and just go play, because what I saw on Tuesday was vintage, vintage.
I said, Why don't you just go do that so I can stop having to answer all these questions for you? We're getting tired of answering these questions. We're glad to do it, though. He's in a good place, he really is. And he's playing quite a bit, so that's a good thing. I think that's what he needs is just reps, more reps, go play, just go out and play.
He's in a place where he doesn't think he has to hit that many balls now, he can just go play. He's not just grinding, grinding, grinding. He's got it. You know, he's playing the match play and maybe Doral and Bay Hill comes up, and next thing you know, it's Augusta. So going in, he's got a nice little flow going on golf courses he's done very well on.

Full interview here on pgatour.com


Hank Haney, Tiger's former coach twitter response to John Cook's statement:


"I read where John Cook said it all clicked for Tiger on Monday with his swing. I remember when that happened with me, he should win next week."