I keep hearing that it's going to be tough for Tiger at Augusta. Because if if you want to win, you must be able to hit intentional draws at numerous holes.
But didn't Nicklaus try to hit fades with nearly every swing? He won the thing six times!
Not sure I understand. Was it just easier to really curve the old balata balls than it is to curve today's urethane balls?
It sounds like you might not own one of Brian's best video's ever, SD 2.0.
In it, Brian pretty brilliantly explains that Jack's fundamental swing was a draw swing – with SD elements in it, especially a no popout backswing and a slightly across the line top of the back swing. But out of this position, Jack mainly played a fade by holding it off. It was therefore easy, from Jack's basic swing, for him to spend time every year leading up to the masters, as Kevin notes, to put the draw into his game.
As for Tiger...
On 18 on Saturday, with a tough pin placement and GMac trying to make another charge, Tiger hit a really nice hold draw into the left to right wind and made one of his most important birdies of the week. He also played a number of draws off the tee with clubs less than driver (the bogey on 16 on Sunday was a product of overdrawing his 3 iron stinger).
I don't think Tiger will try to draw the driver at Augusta, but I don't think he needs to. The driving holes that really demand a draw (10, 13) can be played with a 3 wood, especially now that 3 woods for the Pros go 290 yards.
