Another deadline passes with no sign of Tiger. Friday the deadline for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship passed without Tiger’s name on the billet. The WGC Match Play Championship will start Wednesday with Steve Stricker the world’s #3 ranked golfer as the #1 seed, as Phil Mickelson will also miss the tournament due to personal reasons.

The next tournament on schedule is the Waste Management Phoenix Open, (really, who would want to play in anything dealing with waste) which Tiger has not played in years. Maybe we will see him the week after at the WGC-CA Championship at Doral where he has had great success winning the tournament 3 times.

At this point I am just hoping we see him again this season!

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You ever wonder how a golfer can hit a golf ball 150 yards and have it stop on a dime? Or take two bounces and then stop? The grooves on the face of the clubs especially in the higher loft clubs have a lot to do with it and make it look almost effortlessly. The professional golfers hit down on the ball causing a tremendous amount of spin which causes the ball to stop when it hits the green.

A rules change in 2010, has changed the dynamic of the grooves (amateurs have a 7 year grace period). The width and sharpness of the grooves have been reduced which will cause less spin. Shots out of the rough will not stop nearly as quickly as players are used to.

“I think it’ll have an impact individually, but it should be proportionally spread out evenly among everybody,” said British Open champion Stewart Cink. “So it’ll affect everybody about the same amount. I don’t see one guy saying, ‘These new grooves I just can’t play with,’ and another guy saying, ‘They don’t have much effect.’ It’s going to affect everybody pretty much the same way. … Yeah, it’s a change. It’s quite different when anything other than a perfect dry lie is encountered.”