Intro:

Former world number one Tiger Woods said on Tuesday (June 16th) that he "wants to compete and wants to win" this week's US Open at Chambers Bay despite his poor recent form.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Tiger Woods:

(on his desire to still play golf)

"Well, I wouldn't have made the changes if I wasn't devoted to the game of golf and winning golf tournaments. I want to be out here. I want to play. I want to compete, and I want to win. And to me it's so much fun having a chance to win on the back nine on Sunday. There's plenty of times where I haven't got it done. But there are also times when I have got it done. But you've got to be there. And that's one of the reasons why over the course of my career I've made a few changes here and there in search of becoming a little more consistent to put myself there more often. And we're doing that. This year certainly has been a struggle. But for me to go through what I went through at Torrey and Phoenix, to come back and do what I did at Augusta (in this year's US Masters) gave me a lot of confidence going forward."

SOUNDBITE (English) Tiger Woods:

(on shooting a 85 at the Memorial Tournament)

"I just had to deal with it. As I said I've made two shifts. I made a shift there after Friday and we were committed to it. And, hey, you've got to go ahead and go through it. It is what it is, you know. As I said there at Memorial, the manager is not going to come out to the mound and bring in the righty or lefty."