Title: Haney: Tiger comeback not as simple as just hitting balls

Description: Tiger Woods warned everyone that he'd be rusty for his first tentative steps back into competitive golf at the Quicken Loans National last week. He only started hitting full shots again over U.S. Open weekend, two and a half months after March 31 back surgery. loop-haneywoods-518.jpg After two weeks of practice, Woods shot rounds of 74-75 and missed the cut by four shots. How close is he to getting back to full speed? Not very close, says Hank Haney, who helped Woods come back from two separate knee surgeries in 2008. "I know people were excited to hear that he was back hitting balls, but hitting balls isn't the same as practicing," says Haney, who worked with Woods from 2003 to 2010. "You have to get your swing going and your endurance back first. You don't just walk out there and start pounding balls for four hours. It's not that easy." After Woods' reconstructive knee surgery in 2008, Haney worked out a four-week plan to get Woods from zero to competitive shape. It incorporated doctors' advice about how fast and often Woods could swing at a given stage of recovery.

Link: http://www.golfdigest.com/blogs/the-loop/2014/07/haney-tiger-comeback-not-a-sim.html