Golf Channel has re-published some hints from again in 2000 while Tiger and Butch were operating collectively. This precise clip is a fashionable precis of the variety of adjustments they made to Tiger's swing after he gained the 1997 Masters.
I want to factor out more than one the key adjustments that I talk approximately regularly in this blog and in my books.
It's exciting to observe what number of 'faults' that journey up weekend golfers Tiger was still the usage of while he received the Masters.
One of them become that he took the membership returned to the inside too speedy. Butch taught him a one-piece takeaway to counteract that circulate. In my thoughts, that became his largest backswing flaw. It made it less difficult for him to keep the club out in the front of him -- something else I've written approximately -- when he made the opposite adjustments.
The different huge flaw turned into in his downswing, what he calls the "Ole Swing." Tiger drove his legs way too hard to begin his downswing. Sometimes I experience I'm on a campaign to forestall exaggerated leg power! I've written about the problem a number of instances, but this submit blanketed a video wherein Martin Hall teaches about the usage of gravity to move down into the ball. In that video Sara Brown tried it and ended up the usage of much less leg pressure -- in spite of Martin's persevered emphasis on leg force -- and it stopped her from pulling her shots. Compare Sara's smaller leg power with Tiger's 'ole swing' and the difference can be clearer.
Anyway, the Tiger and Butch video above is an exciting reminder that even the greatest golfer in latest records made the same mistakes that the average weekend golfer does. The distinction is that Tiger had hours and hours of every day practice, repeated over years and years, to make it paintings... And Butch nonetheless says inside the video that it turned into a swing that wouldn't final.
And take into account, it was AFTER he made those modifications that he ripped off the 4 major streak we now name 'the Tiger Slam.' Clearly Butch become on to some thing!
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