It would be awesome if B-Man could expand on his latest blog post where he discusses Tiger's swing on the Masters driving range. What specific swing changes has Tiger implemented in the past few weeks to make his ballstriking so much better at Augusta than it was at Doral? Do his changes have anything to do with "The Old Masters ONE TWO"? Did he water down his left-leaning pivot to the point where it is now more fluid and free-wheeling? Video or pictures are not necessary but they would be a bonus!
Tiger's latest swing changes?
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Lifter, if Tiger is going to use method X (Foley's) and does not have it correct at Doral, but then at the Master's does...why do you want to know the changes from incorrect performance of X and correct?
You could go to any driving range and see lots of bad performances of many swing methods. All they have to do is "do it (their method) right."
Fwiw, to me he had more face problems at Doral, and also some problems with low point control.
You could go to any driving range and see lots of bad performances of many swing methods. All they have to do is "do it (their method) right."
Fwiw, to me he had more face problems at Doral, and also some problems with low point control.
peterjthomps
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I agree with lifter here, i would love a blog from Brian with a detailed explaination on whats working.
Richie3Jack
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All I know is B-Manz has been telling the world the grip had to change for years. I've been saying the same thing for years, just less years than B-Manz. I believe he changed it on Friday at Bay Hill where his ballstriking did improve slightly in rounds 2-4.
I thought on Friday and Saturday at the Masters he hit every club great except for his driver. Augusta will do that to a golfer because you really need to work it there and it looked like Tiger was trying to hit a hook with the old way he was taught....crossing the arms over and 'releasing' the club. He couldn't time it, hit dead blocks on those shots. But Sunday he looked like he finally started to trust it and finally got rid of those instincts to revert back to the old Haney crap-ola.
He hit the driver on Sunday the best I've seen him hit it since he was last working with Harmon. And you could just sense it by looking at him. He just looked like he EXPECTED to hit the driver hard, get the ball flight he wanted to and to find the fairway. Which he did on Sunday...over and over again.
At no time in the Haney era did I ever see Tiger hit the driver that well.
To me, he actually *looked* like the player that everybody talked about and raved about. None of the 'hit 2 fairways with the driver all game round, hit the rest off the grid, great irons play and scramble to death and make bombs and then in the final round have guys choke and hand him the trophy.'
I grew up playing golf in the era when guys like Greg Norman, Nick Price, Nick Faldo, etc were the #1 players in the world. And they all 'looked' like the #1 players in the world. By that I mean they struck the ball well with each club in their bag and when they were #1, they were putting pretty well. Norman is probably the 2nd best driver of the ball of all time behind Nicklaus. Price was a great striker of the ball. Faldo wasn't long, but seemed to hit shot after shot pure, and outside of power didn't seem to have a flaw in his game. I suspect that had I grown up watching guys like Palmer, Nicklaus, Hogan and Johnny Miller....they would've 'looked' like #1 players in the world as well.
Friday was fun to watch Tiger because he was back to bombing it again, although he had to use his 3-wood a lot to keep it in play and he was back to the great irons player he was once again. And he was hitting that 3-wood much better off the tee than he was the last 2 years under Haney. But Sunday was the icing on the cake. No more of him hitting awful shots off the tee and being frustrated over it and watching him 'struggle' to a round in the 60's. No more of that feeling like there's a drunken clutz with the keys to a Ferrari.
3JACK
I thought on Friday and Saturday at the Masters he hit every club great except for his driver. Augusta will do that to a golfer because you really need to work it there and it looked like Tiger was trying to hit a hook with the old way he was taught....crossing the arms over and 'releasing' the club. He couldn't time it, hit dead blocks on those shots. But Sunday he looked like he finally started to trust it and finally got rid of those instincts to revert back to the old Haney crap-ola.
He hit the driver on Sunday the best I've seen him hit it since he was last working with Harmon. And you could just sense it by looking at him. He just looked like he EXPECTED to hit the driver hard, get the ball flight he wanted to and to find the fairway. Which he did on Sunday...over and over again.
At no time in the Haney era did I ever see Tiger hit the driver that well.
To me, he actually *looked* like the player that everybody talked about and raved about. None of the 'hit 2 fairways with the driver all game round, hit the rest off the grid, great irons play and scramble to death and make bombs and then in the final round have guys choke and hand him the trophy.'
I grew up playing golf in the era when guys like Greg Norman, Nick Price, Nick Faldo, etc were the #1 players in the world. And they all 'looked' like the #1 players in the world. By that I mean they struck the ball well with each club in their bag and when they were #1, they were putting pretty well. Norman is probably the 2nd best driver of the ball of all time behind Nicklaus. Price was a great striker of the ball. Faldo wasn't long, but seemed to hit shot after shot pure, and outside of power didn't seem to have a flaw in his game. I suspect that had I grown up watching guys like Palmer, Nicklaus, Hogan and Johnny Miller....they would've 'looked' like #1 players in the world as well.
Friday was fun to watch Tiger because he was back to bombing it again, although he had to use his 3-wood a lot to keep it in play and he was back to the great irons player he was once again. And he was hitting that 3-wood much better off the tee than he was the last 2 years under Haney. But Sunday was the icing on the cake. No more of him hitting awful shots off the tee and being frustrated over it and watching him 'struggle' to a round in the 60's. No more of that feeling like there's a drunken clutz with the keys to a Ferrari.
3JACK
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