Although Tiger Woods hasn't won a full-field Nike - VR Pro Blade Irons tournament in two years, he hasn't given up on his dream of beating Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 Major titles.
On Tuesday Woods told the media ahead of his first tee-off in almost 20 years at this week's the Honda Classic at the PGA Tour's headquarters in Florida that his dream in 1993 hasn't change.
He was only 17 on the last occasion that he contested the Honda Open, but even then he already had dreams of one day matching and bettering the Golden Bear's magnificent mark.
He still does now, despite the various problems that have plunged him into the deepest and longest slump in his Nike - VR Pro Blade Irons career. .
"It's going to take an entire career to do it and that's something I knew starting out," said Woods who had already chalked up 14 majors when his nocturnal activities outside his marriage engulfed him in a major scandal late in 2009, after which a serious knee injury and a swing change saw his long-time World No 1 ranking slide into the 30s and 40s as victory continued to evade him.
"I was lucky enough to have won my first major as a pro (the 1997 Masters) and it's taken me, what, 16 years to get to this point.
"So it's going to take a while yet. It didn't take Jack overnight to get to 18."
It in fact took Nicklaus 24 years, from the 1962 US Open until the 1986 Masters which he won at the age of 46, and Woods added: "The whole idea is getting consistent and putting myself up there enough times.
"Nobody in the history of the Nike - VR Pro Blade Irons has been better at putting themselves in contention to win a major than Jack. When you finish with 37 top twos you've got to be pretty good.
"That's what it takes. You're not going to win all of them, but you can always be there and you never know when someone might give you one or two."
This season's opening major, The Masters at Augusta National, is only five weeks away and Woods has several questions to answer ahead of it.
His poor putting so far this year, must be the first of them.( Nike - VR Pro Blade Irons)
Last week it cost him his match against fellow American Nick Watney at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and in his two tournaments before that he started well, but the ruthless closer of old simply couldn't do it this time, again partly because of his indecisive putting.
His answer? "Now that I've got the full swing where I like to have it I can spend the majority of my time chipping and putting," he said.
"That's where I know that I've been lacking in my Nike - VR Pro Blade Irons and where I've seen the biggest improvement lately too, which is good.
"I spent about almost four hours the other day putting, just going back to my old basics that my dad taught me.
"When I looked at the (video) tapes I could see I had gotten away from some of those things.
My posture was off, the way the Nike - VR Pro Blade Irons was releasing was off.
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