Harmon Reveals Tiger 'Secrets'

Phil still isn’t telling. But when I talked to Butch Harmon this week about the so-called classified information on Tiger Woods he has passed on to Mickelson, Harmon scoffed at the notion that this was something out of a spy novel.
 
Mostly common sense, Harmon said. “This isn’t baseball,” he said. “I’m not stealing signs.”
 
Harmon said he told Mickelson he needed to enjoy playing in the same group with Tiger and he needed to pay attention and learn from playing in the company of the best player in the world.
 
Specifically, Harmon told Mickelson to note how Tiger slows down his central nervous system simply by walking more slowly in the heat of battle. Harmon told Phil to watch how Woods putts out when he has the opportunity rather than wait around and let his opponent finish.
 
Harmon also told me beating Woods at the Deutsche Bank Championship Monday was “huge” for Mickelson’s confidence. And, Harmon added, “if Phil hadn’t hurt his wrist in June you would have seen Tiger and Phil dueling like this all summer long.”
 
MORE BUTCH:
We know that for every action there is a reaction. And Harmon is predicting Woods’ reaction to his Monday defeat at the hands of Mickelson will only spur Woods on to better things.
 
“And that,” Harmon says, “doesn’t bode well for everybody else.”
 
Harmon also said he was very impressed with Tiger’s ball-striking at the Deutsche Bank Championship. In the end, Harmon said, it was Tiger’s putting that let him down last week.
 
FEDEXCUP Q&A:
Here are this week’s FedExCup possibilities, fresh from the PGA TOUR’s home office in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.:
 
Q: Could Phil Mickelson have clinched first place in the final FedExCup point standings if he had played near Chicago at this week’s BMW Championship?