Tiger Woods’ Golfing Future in Doubt? Not a Chance

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Published: November 17, 2010

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This past golf season has finally produced something not seen since Tiger Woods stepped foot on the course as a pro: A year without him winning. These past two years, arguably the toughest of his career, have left many wondering if he will ever return to form.

Answer to those wondering: He will. Woods saw a somewhat similar period in his career when he lost the world number one ranking to Vijay Singh in 2004. Woods responded quickly to this loss, regaining the title early in 2005. What people need to realize is that a swing change for a professional golfer is much more difficult than the average golfer.

With new teacher Sean Foley, Tiger will move more towards the rotation-based swing that he perfected with Butch Harmon. It will not be a duplicate, but you will see his club above his shoulder line and a lot less club face twisting by him.

Although Haney's swing is different than Foley's model, it is a matter of about five to seven degrees on Tiger's swing path. Most golfers who take their first lesson need to change their swing by 15. Add in the fact that for the six years he worked with Haney, he hit a golf ball 500+ times a day in practice, and it's obvious why it's a tough change.

So the miscues that we have seen, including a few blatant shanks by Tiger, are to be expected. His change is so much more difficult than an average golfer, as golf is a sport of habit, and six years of habit is hard to break. However, his history with Butch Harmon's methodology will make this transition somewhat easier.

This swing change has also impacted Tiger's putting. He himself has admitted that he has lost time on putting due to the swing change. If there was one thing Tiger Woods always, always could do it was make a putt inside of six feet. And in the first round of the JBWere Masters, he missed four putts from inside six feet.

If he had made those, as was habit, he would have posted number two on the ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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