Jeff,
Maybe he should play more with Bubba!!
When playing golf, at any point in time, it is extremely difficutl to turn that "switch" off, and focus your mind soley, and entirely on, nothing.
Tiger's rebuild is not so much a "rebuild" as they were with Butch, and Haney. If you watch the footage from 06 to 08, Tiger's arm plane at the top shallows out, his wrist is bowed, and his take away is more outside and around his body. His take away still maintains the outside around his body feel (evident by club outside hands at hip high - a one pice take a way), but his left arm is more connected and across his chest, and not so much out. From being more "inside" (but still outside, aHA!) he can rotate his shoulders on a steeper plane, allowing the arm plane to be higher and match the ball better, and his left wrist remains more sqaure. From this improved position, Tiger relies less on "pure body trapping" of the ball, and can work the ball much easier, most noteable his missed left to right shot. His release will not need to be as hard (in contrast to McDowell with a very closed, shut, and flat plane at the top).
I think these are minor changes for Tiger to make, and you will see some success shortly. His play was great the first two days, but the weekend was another story. I'm not sure if the changes will hurt his short game or not. I would say that those, all body, closed stance bunker shots, are not going to work in the long run. But it is Tiger. His one plane flat swing, didn't work, so he went kept the ideas he liked from that "swing style" and has applied it towards a new direction, with Foley. Tiger is a smart man, and he knews where he wants his golf game to head. If something is not working right, or has been neglected, Tiger knew yesterday. If only such things could be said about his life off the course...oh well.
Agreed, that his biggest problem is the difference between playing golf, and swinging golf. I don't think the changes are too demanding of Tiger, to not have won at the end of 2010, or this week. Tiger has proven he can win when he is playing "golf swing", but I think the pressures of his off course affairs have had a greater affect than we realize. When things off the course are not going according to plan, the questioning, and tentative mind is much more overactive on the course. IMO