PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – After digesting all the insight Tiger Woods shared with him in a pair of practice rounds at The Players this week, Harold Varner III didn’t gear up.
He geared down.
Varner, thrilled to play for the first time with Woods in practice rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, said he was surprised how conservatively Woods approaches the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course, advising Varner to “dink it down there” with tee shots that Varner wanted to rip.
“He got me to think about not taking so much risk off the tees,” said Varner, who shot a 1-under 71 in his opening round.