Intro:

Tiger Woods has spoken about how he believes he'll have to change his game to compete again at the top level of professional golf.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: Tiger Woods, professional golfer

"I'm older, father time is undefeated, we all eventually start losing some of the things we were able to do when we were younger and as an athlete yeah you do notice these things, we all have to make adaptations as athletes and we have to make adjustments and I'm no different."

SOUNDBITE: Tiger Woods, professional golfer

"Back when I was younger a long ball was 290 in the air, that was a big ball. Now it's 320-325. That's the new standard out here, some of the longer guys - Bubba, Woody, Dus they carry 325 - that's the number they carry over bunkers. I don't quite have that. But there are other ways to go around it, around a golf course and I think that's when you need to be part of a sport where you can play for such a long period of time and you can win at a very late age because you don't have to physically dominate anybody, physically beat anybody, you just have to be at the golf course."

SOUNDBITE: Tiger Woods, professional golfer

"It's going to be nice playing a tournament this week and getting a feel for being under the heat and seeing where my swing is, seeing what shots where my misses are, not necessarily my good ones because I know my good ones are good."

SOUNDBITE: Tiger Woods, professional golfer

"The surgeon did a fantastic job and that's all healed. Now do I have, as I was saying to Mark, the muscle structure to hold everything in place and so nothing slips? That's the one thing I didn't have at the time. Yeah I could practice all I want, but certain movements would throw things out and I couldn't get it back. And there shouldn't have been able to throw things out, but I just didn't have the development yet. I wasn't at that point where day in-day out it was going to hold. So finally I got to that point now, I'm strong enough and things are settled and it's nice to wake up each and every day. I may have a little soreness here and there from training or doing stuff, but I just don't have things slipping out of place."

SOUNDBITE: Tiger Woods, professional golfer

"Well the last month and a half I've been hitting more balls, playing a little bit. Am I game ready? Probably not quite as I would like to be, I would like to... I hadn't played a tournament round since August - it's a long time and it'll be interesting to go out there on Thursday and get - how long it takes for me to get my feel back for game shots."