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Tiger back on the range

World number one put through paces by Hank Haney

Last updated: 25th March 2010

Haney (L) with Woods

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Tiger Woods was reported to be back in practice on the range on Monday and looking ready to play again - sooner rather than later.

The world number one, the New York Daily News has confirmed through several sources, has been working with swing guru Hank Haney on the driving range at Isleworth since Sunday.

There is now a growing belief amongst observers who have seen his swing that he is on course to play in next month's Masters, most likely after a crucial pre-Augusta warm-up in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill two weeks earlier.

Prior to that, Woods could also feature in the Tavistock Cup, an annual, unofficial event in Florida between the PGA Tour residents of the gated golf estates of Lake Nona and Isleworth, where he has one of his homes.

The view is that a low-key comeback in that event would enable his management team to prevent a wild media scramble and help ease the world's most famous golfer back into competitive action in a less frenzied atmosphere.

It has been reported that Haney has rented a home in Augusta during the week of the Masters, although this in itself is no guarantee that Woods will be competing with virtually the entire golfing community congregating in Augusta that week.

Speculation over Williams

Meanwhile, there has been some speculation making the sports pages that Woods' is considering the future of his caddie, Steve Williams.

Williams recently appeared on New Zealand television discussing his employer's infidelity and said, amongst other things, that he was angry with Woods over the scandal and would almost certainly have blown the whistle had he known about Woods' extramarital affairs.

In the past Woods has been known to come down severely on members of his team who have become too loose-lipped with the media.

It has been widely suggested that his former caddy, Mike 'Fluff' Cowan, was one of them who got the chop because of it.

However, at this testing stage of his life, teaming up with a new caddy still seems an unlikely move for an embattled man who badly needs men around him that he feels comfortable with and who he knows will have his best interests at heart.

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Yen chong Yap says...

I would dearly love to have Tiger back in the Circuit soonest possible but preferrably that his mind is free from the infamous episode. Take your time Tiger!

Posted 15:58 14th March 2010