The low point came at the 2011 PGA Championship, where Tiger Woods shot rounds of 77-73 to miss the cut by a whopping 6 strokes. He was 10 over par for two days and lost. He clearly didn't know where the ball was going, and, in his second tournament back after a summer lost to injury, it was obvious he had a long way to go.

Woods had been working with instructor Sean Foley for a year, but their time together was cut short by Woods' knee and Achilles injuries suffered at the Masters. Not only was Woods trying to learn a new swing but he didn't have the physical ability to work on it. That was obvious at Atlanta Athletic Club.

Because he missed the cut, Woods had failed to earn enough points to be eligible for the four-tournament FedEx Cup playoff series. That meant at least another month on golf's sideline, a time when he still managed to secure a captain's pick from Fred Couples for the U.S. Presidents Cup team in Australia. That only added to the focus on his game.



So how did he get from there to here? How did Woods go from the depths of mediocrity to winning again Sunday on the PGA Tour at the Arnold Palmer Invitational -- his first victory in 30 official worldwide starts dating to 2009?

Woods likes to say that his work with Foley is a "process.'' Here is how it evolved through to his 72nd PGA Tour title.