My Thoughts on Tiger's Driver Struggles

Here?S every other video from Dr. Bhrett McCabe discussing ?Going for what you need.'

Since I attended Dr. McCabe?S MINDSide discussion, I even have truly idea about this?Nearly on a steady basis. And lately I actually have thought approximately no longer only it making use of to my game, however how I suppose it applies to Tiger Woods and his struggles with the driver as properly.

One of the matters I even have struggled with figuring out is the ?Visit shot.? I actually have tried for years and years to develop that ?Visit shot? That might not bring about the satisfactory outcomes, but the concept is that when the pressure is on I can correctly hit that shot and live out of trouble. And over the years I?Ve been unable to discover that ?Visit shot? That I can hit continuously. Some days it really works. But, more regularly than not it doesn?T work.

I additionally began to reflect onconsideration on some thing I locate to be a war?Trying to do some thing I name ?Hedging my bets? With a golf swing and it usually resulting in bad performance.

One of the holes I like to use as a situation wherein I might be in all likelihood to try and ?Hedge my bets? Is the third hole at Bay Hill:

To get a higher knowledge of what I mean through ?Hedging my bets? Is that with water left, I might now not simplest purpose towards the proper facet of the fairway, but I might then make a swing where I could not hit a hook in fear of the water. Now, more often than now not I could not locate the water. But, I could rather nevertheless hit a awful shot and end up properly right of the golf green and in all likelihood making negative touch so the ball could not go very some distance.

Essentially, I?Ve ?Hedged my bets? Through trying to take that 1-horrific shot (hook into the water) out of the equation. The problem is that whilst you ?Hedge your bets?, you never get the payoff. And from what I actually have understood from Dr. McCabe is that you are truly much more likely to hit a poor shot. You?Re now not ?Going for what you want? And rather you're playing towards your fears.

I think the same issue is happening to Tiger together with his driving force.

What do I recognize approximately Tiger?

He usually hits every membership within the bag VERY nicely if no longer the exceptional on Tour, EXCEPT for his motive force.

He hits his long irons very well, mid irons?Short irons?Wedges?.Etc, all well. The records are right there to prove. And he?S a excellent 3-wooden participant. He makes use of it off the tee a lot and hits it pretty nicely. This despite the three-wooden being the hardest club for PGA Tour gamers to grasp.

However, whilst he receives a motive force in his hand, the swing is completely special than the way he commonly swings with the rest of his clubs.

I will paint this situation.

Tiger is on the route and ultimately pulls out his driving force. I can say with fact that he goes to be playing a said cut-shot off the tee. He?S aimed nicely left and is obviously seeking to cut it. I think maximum could accept as true with me that this takes place almost each time he pulls the driver out of the bag.

But, whilst we see him hit the 3-timber off the tee, he rarely performs for that pronounced cut. He usually takes his ?Stock swing? And tries to hit it straight or with a little draw.

Recently, Tiger stated in an interview that the idea is to remove the lifeless-block off the tee. And with the suggested cut that he and Sean Foley have provide you with, it takes that useless-block right out of the equation. And in Tiger?S phrases?The miss with the stated cut shot is a directly pull and Tiger feels like he can play with a pull.

To me, that seems like he is ?Hedging his bets.?

The trouble is twofold, IMO.

1. A ?Suitable swing? With the pronounced cut shot will no longer produce the equal consequences as a ?Excellent swing? With greater of his ?Stock swing? With the driver. A ?Accurate swing? With the said cut shot may bring about a 300 backyard force down the center. But had he taken his ?Stock swing? And struck it pretty properly, he might also have hit it 340 yards down the middle.

2. Because he?S seeking to ?Hedge his bets?, he?S more likely to make terrible swings and hit those instantly pulls off the tee. He?S playing toward his fears and no longer gambling closer to what he desires.

The difficulty right here is that no person has ever puzzled the psyche and mind-set of Tiger Woods. Instead, they want responsible Tiger?S struggles with the motive force at the mechanics and of direction?Sean Foley. However, my feeling is that Foley has squared away his mechanics sufficient where Tiger hits extraordinarily nicely with the relaxation of the golf equipment in his bag. It?S simply that the mentality with the driving force and Tiger?S loss of accept as true with in those mechanics while he has the driver in his hand get him far from using the mechanics that paintings so nicely with the relaxation of the golf equipment in his bag. And I assume if Tiger starts offevolved to ?Pass for what he desires? With the driving force, similar to he does with the three-wood off the tee, we will see the Tiger of old.

3JACK

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