His driving accuracy, putting and scoring averages dropped significantly during his adjustment period. Last year was frustrating as you can expect, very frustrating. Like any good player, he wants to be a champion and a winner and the changes he was making would make him more consistent. If they are successful in what they do, they look for a better way to tweak things at the time. It may work for a while but it doesn't hold up.
Some guys are fiddlers.
In 1998, he did not win, missed the cut as the defending U.S. Senior Open champion, and posted only seven top-10s in 28 events. And Marsh takes some of the blame because of his scheduling. Always a world traveler with design projects in the Far East and a family at home in Perth, Australia, he flew through a host of time zones to honor commitments. In early 1998, Marsh made four trips either home or to the Far East. He made six in all and easily logged more than 200,000 air miles.