Vijay's swing change

[dodger]

Saw Faldo dissecting the differences between Vijay's swing last year when he won and this year's swing. Clearly his takeaway is inside and then more upright. He also is standing closer to the ball. Faldo claims his hips now move towards the ball, requiring him to use his hands more, flipping. I don't see it, I always thought he looked laid off with the driver, he seems more on plane and not so shallow with the driver. I like the change. Anyone else have any thoughts on the so called change?

 

[spider]

I saw him at the target challenge on the range. He was doing a drill where he stopped at the top of the back swing pumped it then hit the ball. Very high hands at back swing with pronounced lean toward the target. Looked like more of a centered pivot. I am not an expert but it looked to be less flip than the other years I have seen him on the range.

Having said that hard to tell just by watching live and no video. I also saw him totally double cross (block) a fairway wood really right into the crowd. So it wasn't automatic by any means at the time. After he did that he once again did that high back swing hold leaning toward the target.

 

[niblick1]

Saw Faldo dissecting the differences between Vijay's swing last year when he won and this year's swing. Clearly his takeaway is inside and then more upright. He also is standing closer to the ball. Faldo claims his hips now move towards the ball, requiring him to use his hands more, flipping. I don't see it, I always thought he looked laid off with the driver, he seems more on plane and not so shallow with the driver. I like the change. Anyone else have any thoughts on the so called change?

I thought he looked less laid off and more on plane on the driver. Clearly he is practicing being more upright and less laid off in his practice swings. I didn't really get the "flipping" from seeing the swings.

By the way, I finally watched some of the Tiger/Target event from a couple weeks ago that I had recorded on DVR. There was quite a bit of video of his swing to watch. In watching I began to think there's a big difference between his iron swings and his driver and woods swings and that it is really only on the longer clubs that he does that weird Haney /forearm/laid off thing. I also noticed that Tiger also talked about how he is working on just forgetting being so mechanical and trying to play with more from feel on the course for "what works." It makes you wonder if Tiger will get past the Haney-inspired forearm moves and on to "what works" with the driver. I'm not sure a Center Cut Tiger (off the tee) would even need One Putt Tiger to win 6-7 events a year for another decade.