Much of the thrill at the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge on Thursday worried Tiger's improved fairway percent. He used the driver 7 instances (I think) and hit the fairway 6 of them -- an astounding stat for the Big Cat!
After Golf Channel stuck on and talked about it on-air, it have become this sort of rely of hobby that PGATOUR.Com positioned up a put up particularly approximately the new club. Here's the skinny for you system geeks accessible:
The motive force is the new Nike VR_S Covert 2.Zero, which can be distinguished from the authentic with the aid of the white cavity back. You can see it within the picture above; it's obscured in the picture on the put up because of the band identifying the supply of the photo as Golf Channel.
The Covert 2.0 is an adjustable version, but both Tiger has an "unadjustable" version or has clearly had the adjustable bits glued down.
The shaft has also been changed, which GC detailed on Golf Central after the tournament broadcast. Here's the detail info from the post:
Aside from the driving force switch, the opposite thrilling piece of news is that Woods decided to use a Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 103x shaft inside the motive force as opposed to his regular Mitsubishi Rayon Diamana WhiteBoard 73X shaft.
The Blue Board shaft is the equal model he currently uses in his VR_S Covert three- and 5-wood. Woods said on his website online that the heavier shaft gave him better sense of the membership at impact.GC added that the shaft was also softer (more flexible), probably to further help Tiger's feel. As noted earlier, the initial results from the first round suggest that Tiger may have finally solved some of his driver problems. This is probably the result of Tiger spending more time using TrackMan, which he mentioned in his presser on Wednesday.
And in my opinion, I suspect that shaft exchange is what's virtually having the biggest effect on his fairway percent. As some distance again because the 1950s, the mythical participant/trainer Tommy Armour counseled that weekend players use a more flexible shaft to get better results. It appears that, as time is going on, that advice is proving to be more and more accurate, even for the pros.
There also are questions about Tiger perhaps changing his ball as well. This PGATOUR.Com post about the brand new Nike balls says:
[Nike's chief ball designer Rock] Ishii also showed Tiger Woods has been experimenting with RZN Platinum, using the ball most these days during his exhibition healthy towards McIlroy at Mission Hills Golf Club in China.Rory is already using the new RZN Black (he was playing it when he won the Emirates Australian Open last week). Tiger apparently isn't using the new ball this week but since he's testing it, we may see him changing balls as well pretty soon.
So now you already know the trendy buzz approximately Tiger's gadget. I'll be fascinated to look if his improved driver play maintains.
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