Editor's note: This story originally ran in the June 24, 2000, issue of Golfweek magazine.
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. –– If Tiger Woods really wanted to be more competitive, he should’ve switched to the gutta percha, not the Swoosh ball, to even the playing field.