By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Brandel Chamblee thinks the solution is simple for Tiger Woods.

“He needs to fire Sean [Foley], call Butch [Harmon],” Chamblee said in a teleconference Tuesday. “I think that would get it done right there.”

Woods, who is coming off only the eighth missed cut of his career and his worst-ever performance in the Masters, scoffed at the suggestion.

“Everyone has an opinion, and he's entitled to his,” Woods quipped. “But he's no longer playing anymore, so, so be it.”

Foley, meanwhile, declined to comment, preferring to reference Woods’ statistics. To an extent, he had a point.

Woods ranks 42nd on the PGA TOUR in driving accuracy at 64 percent -- only once in the last five years, in 2009, has he hit more than 60 percent of his fairways -- and is 19th in greens in regulation.

He’s also fourth in total driving and sixth in the all-around category.

Not that Woods hasn’t had his share of struggles.

At Quail Hollow, Woods took 33 putts in the second round. In the Masters, Woods failed to break par in any of his four rounds as he hit just 57 percent of the fairways and 56 percent of the greens.

Just two weeks prior to the Masters, however, Woods won for a seventh time at Bay Hill -- where he led the field in greens in regulation.

“I know he'll never [fire Foley], because he's letting his ego get in the way of common sense,” said Chamblee, who added that Harmon could help Woods find his rhythm again and swing on a flatter plane. “He wants to prove to people he's right. He would rather prove to people he's right than be right.

“He's literally lost the art of the game, and I think Butch could help him.”

For Nick Faldo, he sees Woods’ struggles as more mental than anything else.

“It's self-belief,” Faldo said. “I think when he fears left and the trouble is on the right, we saw this last week, especially the seventh hole at Quail Hollow, the water runs down the right, you need a power fade to feed it in there, and if he fears losing it right, then he pulls it hard left.

“But the real bottom line is for me, he just doesn't have the self-belief, the self-confidence that he obviously had, the Tiger of old, simple as that.”

Woods doesn’t deny that he’s struggled with taking his practice sessions to the course at times while undergoing his latest swing change.

“I've been Ranger Rick before; go out there and stripe it every shot you want, and then you do nothing out there,” he said. “Eventually you stripe it on the range and then you do it at home at your home course, and then you bring it eventually to tournament sites, and eventually to major championships on the back nine on Sunday. There's a process to it, at least in my career there has been. It's worked out OK so far.”

Swing coach Sean Foley, speaking to PGA TOUR Radio’s Matt Adams, said the “tearing down” of Tiger Woods has “become too much … just out of hand.”

Click here to listen to Matt Adams’ full-length interview with Sean Foley, the swing coach of Tiger Woods

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM

Sometimes change is good, or necessary, or both.

Enter Adam Scott, who split with longtime caddie Tony Navarro following last week’s PLAYERS Championship, where he missed the cut. Scott said he’s had a great relationship with Navarro through the years, but “the cliche, all good things come to an end.”

The move doesn’t seem to have impacted Scott, who is using Camilo Villegas’ now-former looper Michael Doran this week, negatively so far -- Scott is 4 under through 15 holes at Colonial and near the top of the leaderboard.

As for the decision to split, it was an amicable one.

"There were issues that had nothing to do with on the golf course or with us," Navarro, who lives in Moline, Ill., told the Quad City Times. "It's just a few things weren't going to work out. I told him I wouldn't quit, so he would have to fire me.

"It wouldn't have been any different had we won the Masters. It was an unavoidable circumstance in the middle of our relationship that we couldn't overcome."

Sometimes a change of scenery, like in other sports, is just good for a team, or in this case an individual. We saw the same thing last week, for example, with Sean O’Hair, who recently parted ways with swing coach Sean Foley and then had a season-best finish, a tie for 19th, at THE PLAYERS.

O’Hair and Foley remain close, much the way Navarro expects to with Scott.

WATCH: Woods interview

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Tiger Woods had hoped to play 72 holes this week at TPC Sawgrass. Instead, he played just nine ( click here for story ), and his swing coach Sean Foley didn’t sound terribly surprised that he wasn’t able to go on.

Woods had been dealing with a little bit of a limp all week and was sore after his practice session on Wednesday, according to Foley.

When Woods came off the range Monday at Isleworth, he felt good. Same thing Tuesday when he practiced for nine holes at TPC Sawgrass. After nine more holes on Wednesday, Woods, who hadn’t played competitively in 28 days since the final round of the Masters, was experiencing soreness.

“At the end of the day if it’s been bothered before it doesn’t ever really truly heal,” Foley said. “You can be functional and productive on it but this comes from a guy that works hard and trains hard and is a perfectionist. The guy’s created a lot of speed for a lot of time. He’s an athlete and he’s fit but you can’t overuse your body that much and not have … there’s going to be some issues.”

On the opening tee shot Thursday, Woods seemed to be suffering from those issues. Then on the fourth hole Woods said the knee “grabbed me” as he pulled his tee shot left.

After a bogey on the ninth -- by which point Woods was walking with a heavy limp and using a club for support -- Woods couldn’t go on ( click here to react ).

“Obviously the guy loves to play the game,” said Foley, who has yet to speak to Woods but expects to at some point Thursday. “It’s the flagship event of the PGA TOUR so I think he was going to give it a try.

“The guy’s played hurt a lot and for him to withdraw it probably had to be bothering him pretty good. It just goes to show he obviously needs more time.”

How much time no one yet knows.

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM Site Producer

Sean O’Hair has parted ways with swing coach Sean Foley, the two sides confirmed Tuesday.

O’Hair, whom Foley coached for the last three years, also withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship on Monday, citing personal reasons.

Under Foley, O’Hair won the 2009 Wells Fargo Championship and made the Presidents Cup team. This season, however, has been a struggle.

In 10 starts, O’Hair has missed six cuts, including his last five in a row. He has just one finish in the top 25 this year.

The decision was O’Hair’s, according to Foley, who got the phone call from O’Hair on Monday night.

“We will always be close,” Foley said via text message. “He is a great guy just going through a bad stretch of golf and felt he needed another direction.”

Earlier this year, O’Hair fired his caddie Brennan Little, who took over his bag after O’Hair let go of Paul Tesori at the end of last year.

Other players in Foley’s stable include of course Tiger Woods, whom he began working with last August, as well as Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose and Stephen Ames.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tiger Woods just made the turn in 5-under 31, saving par from a greenside bunker on No. 9.

Meanwhile, Woods’ coach, Sean Foley, is watching from afar on a plane to New York, where he will speak to the Metropolitan section of the New York PGA.

Of course if Woods wins he too might end up in New York as is sometimes the tradition for the Masters champion to make the rounds on the TV talk show circuit.

By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent AUGUSTA, GA -- He came down the winding stairs in the clubhouse, took a right and got ready to head to the first tee when … he found his way partially blocked by two men -- in Green Jackets -- chatting. Tiger Woods hesitated, saw a seam and slipped behind them, around the sterling silver Augusta National trophy next to the landing and he was off. Not too long ago, everyone would have been watching. People would have stopped talking, stepped back and cleared a path. Friday afternoon, Tiger was just another player on his way to the tee. Five-plus hours later? He had everyone talking. A second-round 66. Second-best round of the day. Putts diving in the hole. A bit of magic and just 26 putts; 7 under in his last 11 holes. Nine birdies. Three shots back of leader Rory McIlroy and one back of Jason Day going into the weekend. Suddenly, everyone is watching. And now they’re wondering if the four-time Masters champion can back it up. “I just kept staying patient,'' he said, “I was trying to get to under par at the turn and piece something together. Got hot.’’ Seriously hot. And that included a save at the 11 ^th hole when he hit an “awful” drive that nicked the calf of Fox Sports International Senior Vice President Jack Stanfield – “I kept walking,’’ Stanfield said. “Tiger never knew” – to a decent second shot, a putt he hit from memory, not feel and a par save that rode the wind straight into the hole. “I’m three back,’’ he said, “I’ve played myself back into the championship.’’ The key? He said his swing has felt the best it has since he started working with Sean Foley, but the keys? Putts and patience – give or take a major grimace or two out there. “I think it’s how patient I was,’’ he said. “ think that was the key.  We are in a major championship.  You have to stay patient.’’ He's tied with K.J. Choi, the man he played four rounds with here last year. He's got former U.S. Open Geoff Ogilvy and up-and-comer Alvaro Quiros right behind him. And he’s got the kids – McIlroy,  Day and Rickie Fowler – right there with him, too. When reminded that his win in 1997 was the inspiration that pushed McIlroy, Fowler and Day  -- ages 7, 8 and 9 years old, respectively, at the time – to want to play here some day, Tiger shook his head and chuckled. Yes, he felt old. “They’re the next generation – and don’t forget Ryo (Ishikawa),’’ Tiger said. “It’s good to see them with this much enthusiasm.   It's a whole crop of guys that are that age.  That generation is going to be a fun one to watch and how it matures over the next 10, 15 years.’’ And in the next two days. He threw out another low round at Pebble Beach nine months ago. A third-round 66 that had everyone buzzing. An exclamation point on the 18th green Saturday morning. A closing 75 that gave him a tie for fourth behind eventual U.S. Open champ Graeme McDowell. Will this be another one step forward, two back? Another Pebble? A so-so weekend like St. Andrews? Or is this it? A great followup to his closing 66 at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship? The questions were flying. Can he keep this up? "The whole idea was to peak for this, this event,'' he said. "We try to peak four times a year, and it was nice to go through the learning curve and some of the changes that Sean and I had to make in the game.  It was good and positive and here we are." Could he feel the crowd? "Absolutely.  Absolutely,'' he said.  "We definitely could feel that.  It was fun." Can he do it? "I'm just trying to put myself in the mix come Sunday,'' he said. " It's irrelevant who is there.  My whole job is to get myself there with a chance with nine holes to go." “We've got a long way to go,’’ he said. “The forecast is supposed to get a little bit warmer.  The ball is going to start flying probably a little bit.  I saw the dots for tomorrow.  There are some good pins out there tomorrow.  You know, we'll see what they do on the greens; see if they firm them up or not. “… I think this is, what, the lowest cut in Masters history, isn't it?  I mean, there's so many guys with a chance to play themselves into the tournament tomorrow. “ He grinned. He didn't have to say a word. We've seen it before. He's ready to have, as he says, some fun.   Click here to view Woods’ scorecard