Wow. He is going to be worthless for the Ryder Cup. You see the rehersal after the drive? He wants his upper body a foot forward of the ball at impact? The world may very well see the death of SnT if this keeps up.
So because Tiger does something that has nothing to do with S&T, we'll see the death of S&T if Tiger's swing doesn't come around? There's some sound reasoning...
Looks like he's focusing on getting his CoG's moving targetward on the downswing and he was doing a drill to exaggerate that. I wouldn't pay attention to the follow thru, just a result of the 'drill' of him trying to exaggerate what he's doing.
That deserves merit as well. He's not playing golf in the first video, he's working on his swing. He's "practicing on the course." We all have people do drills or get feelings that don't actually look like what we want to see people doing in their golf swings.
Bang on me all you want, but I see 0 reason someone should be rehearsing that move. If you can practice it, you can do it.... if he does that, watch out low and right.
Here's a reason: it's the opposite of Tiger's head dropping back and to the right, so he may have to "feel" as if his head actually goes forward and maintains its altitude coming down. We've taught this to people - "feel as if your head is going a foot forward" to counter-act their head moving six inches to their right.
I disagree that eventually students WILL exaggerate. If they do that, I might say you've not taught them well. We're clear in telling people that they need to exaggerate the opposite feeling at first to get them into the correct spots, but they know what the correct spots are and they know that the FEELING of exaggeration is just a feeling that should, ideally, lessen over time as they get into more correct spots.
I have no idea what that is supposed to do for Tiger - and I've read the book. To me, that follow-through is like a little trophy branding. It says, on live TV, "SnT woz here"
The principle is "hit fast, stop fast" in that your muscles can fire faster if they know they're going to throw on the brakes. There's some science to it (and likely some science against it, but I've not read the anti-braking stuff), and I've read some things here and there, but nothing recent and it's not a terribly important piece, frankly... Charlie Wi's the poster boy and his driver swing isn't all that short. He still gets the driver shaft behind his neck at the end.
If what he "felt" was exaggerated but what he was DOING was right, I've got no problem. That's not the case.
He's practicing in that first video - he's not playing golf.
Exaggerate the move to bring you back to the center. The problem is, how does he know he's going too far?
Either he knows where the end point is or Foley will tell him. Why make the illogical assumption that the two of them don't have a road map?
A bad shot will just reinforce the idea that he's still not doing it enough. Then he's just going to learn to do it too much.
More assumptions.
We see it ALL THE TIME with every amateur stuck on the range. Over doing something and hitting horrible shots, then thinking they need to do it more to fix it.
We never see it in the students we teach. Those amateurs on the range don't have an instructor, and haven't spent the time Tiger's likely spent with his instructor planning out what they're going to do. They just got a tip from the Internet or a magazine or something and, yeah, are probably overdoing it (or, more likely, not doing it properly at all and are more likely to be overdoing something else).
You're making a lot of assumptions from one swing on video. If I were inclined to do the same I might say that Tiger knows he might pop it up if he slides forward too much, so his moves afterwards could indicate that he was trying to recreate the feeling he had during the swing to further refine his "feel versus real" model or matrix.
