Fill in the blank... Tiger's swing used to be blank but now is blank

[sonny crocket]

Top Gun/ flying a plane full of rubber dog sh1t out of mirimar

[Colonel_Steelhead]

Boy I could insert something really stupid here like a weak joke or something real witty like a lot of people but I'll just go with........

 

Tiger's swing used to be the best but now is just.......

[stinger_gc]

Used to be a victoria's secret model now it's Rosie O'Donnell

[Guia]

He has always tried (and does) hit the ball very hard. Unfortunately, he can't go back to the past swing, and the new swing with the Driver is not working. In the past when his driver was working he was a great driver of the ball. Lest us remember though his Driver has ALWAYS been eratic, his iron game made up the difference.

 

I don't have an answer, I don't he is capable of slowing down his swing.

[b.mattay]

"Hold my beer" to "I need a beer"

[Tylanthus]

GOAT / goat

[jonsnow]

Perfect. Compromised.

[ConcentricDimples]

Anabolic/catabolic

[bscinstnct]

Anabolic/catabolic

 

catatonic?

[golfdad907]

the best / just mediocre

 

 

Why did he change in the first place? Don't tell me due to his back, cuz clearly the 3 'new' swings I can recall over the years didn't help a whole lot.

 

Like when he said he popped his wrist back in place at Augusta, I get tired of "oh, my arm (back in his case)" whenever he's playing poorly....grind it out, suck it up, or don't take up space in the field.

 

Good news is, Senior Tour not too far off now, maybe he can heal by then.

[mike_wardo]

Use to be "perfect" and now it is "$hit"

[bscinstnct]

the best / just mediocre

 

 

Why did he change in the first place? Don't tell me due to his back, cuz clearly the 3 'new' swings I can recall over the years didn't help a whole lot.

 

Like when he said he popped his wrist back in place at Augusta, I get tired of "oh, my arm (back in his case)" whenever he's playing poorly....grind it out, suck it up, or don't take up space in the field.

 

Good news is, Senior Tour not too far off now, maybe he can heal by then.

 

That will be funny when Senior Tour threads on golfwrx get more posts/pages than PGA Tour events ; )

 

 

As far as changing his swing. I doubt any of us has any clue, not remotely, what it's like to be as good at anything as TW was in his prime. Huge ego was part of it and, from what I understand, he just did not like people driving it passed him. If only he had grown up playing the game with 460cc/graphite instead of 43'/steel shafts., we might have seen TW win even more prolifically since he wouldn't have changed his swing.

 

Anyway, water under the bridge.

 

Here is Butch on why he things TW changed his swing>

 

 

http://www.golfdiges...608_harmontiger

 

 

One of the reasons I believe Tiger felt he needed to change his swing was to increase his driving distance.

When he first turned pro, Tiger drove it past everybody by a healthy margin. Davis Love III and John Daly were close, but no one consistently hit it as far and in as many fairways as did Tiger. When he needed to blast it past an opponent, he had that ability. Then, in about 2001, players started catching up with him. Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh all started hitting the ball close to, if not as long as, Tiger, and occasionally those players and others hit it by him.

He never admitted it, but I believe that bothered him.

He knew he generated more clubhead speed than anyone else out there, and he had gotten even faster since he'd started working out in his mid-20s, so being challenged off the tee was not something that was supposed to happen. When it did, I think he decided he needed to make some changes.

 

I believe that Tiger's perceived loss of distance (or the fact that the rest of the tour started catching up to him in the distance category) had more to do with his equipment than his golf swing. He insisted on staying with a 43 3/4-inch steel-shafted driver with a smaller head, while his fellow-competitors were playing 45-inch graphite shafts and jumbo titanium heads.

 

It's hard to question Tiger's reluctance to make a dramatic equipment change. He was the best player in the world. Tossing your driver when you're playing great is a tough thing to do. There were plenty of graphite shafts Tiger could have hit, but he took a cautious approach to change. No one can fault him for that decision.

But I think overhauling his golf swing was a mistake when putting a new driver in the bag would have done the trick.

[toddnt]

GREAT

 

 

to

 

 

garbage

[bladehunter]

the best / just mediocre

 

 

Why did he change in the first place? Don't tell me due to his back, cuz clearly the 3 'new' swings I can recall over the years didn't help a whole lot.

 

Like when he said he popped his wrist back in place at Augusta, I get tired of "oh, my arm (back in his case)" whenever he's playing poorly....grind it out, suck it up, or don't take up space in the field.

 

Good news is, Senior Tour not too far off now, maybe he can heal by then.

 

That will be funny when Senior Tour threads on golfwrx get more posts/pages than PGA Tour events ; )

 

 

As far as changing his swing. I doubt any of us has any clue, not remotely, what it's like to be as good at anything as TW was in his prime. Huge ego was part of it and, from what I understand, he just did not like people driving it passed him. If only he had grown up playing the game with 460cc/graphite instead of 43'/steel shafts., we might have seen TW win even more prolifically since he wouldn't have changed his swing.

 

Anyway, water under the bridge.

 

Here is Butch on why he things TW changed his swing>

 

 

http://www.golfdiges...608_harmontiger

 

 

One of the reasons I believe Tiger felt he needed to change his swing was to increase his driving distance.

When he first turned pro, Tiger drove it past everybody by a healthy margin. Davis Love III and John Daly were close, but no one consistently hit it as far and in as many fairways as did Tiger. When he needed to blast it past an opponent, he had that ability. Then, in about 2001, players started catching up with him. Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh all started hitting the ball close to, if not as long as, Tiger, and occasionally those players and others hit it by him.

He never admitted it, but I believe that bothered him.

He knew he generated more clubhead speed than anyone else out there, and he had gotten even faster since he'd started working out in his mid-20s, so being challenged off the tee was not something that was supposed to happen. When it did, I think he decided he needed to make some changes.

 

I believe that Tiger's perceived loss of distance (or the fact that the rest of the tour started catching up to him in the distance category) had more to do with his equipment than his golf swing. He insisted on staying with a 43 3/4-inch steel-shafted driver with a smaller head, while his fellow-competitors were playing 45-inch graphite shafts and jumbo titanium heads.

 

It's hard to question Tiger's reluctance to make a dramatic equipment change. He was the best player in the world. Tossing your driver when you're playing great is a tough thing to do. There were plenty of graphite shafts Tiger could have hit, but he took a cautious approach to change. No one can fault him for that decision.

But I think overhauling his golf swing was a mistake when putting a new driver in the bag would have done the trick.

 

A lot of truth here ^^^ totally different swing with a 43 inch steel driver than a 45.5 inch graphite shafted 460cc head. Wonder how far he could hit a 43 inch steel driver now with a smooth tempo swing ? If It's 270 or more then that's what he should be playing.

 

 

Edit. I have yelled This since joining here. I left he game in roughly 2002( didn't write it down ) and came back in 2014. Left playing a 975d x100 and came back to find that was past obscelete . And it's taken me 3 years to acclimate to the change. And I still don't prefer it. But you can't argue that the longer shaft and bigger head put the ball out there farther.

[whr]

GOAT/Brandel Chamblee's

[slimeone]

badass / a**-bad

[browan521]

Oh the savagery

[jafowler85]

Gold standard/Average Joe

[puttingmatt]

Tiger's swing used to be Elin, now it's Perkins waitress.

 

Great point, I think she got his swing in the settlement, cause he has not played well,

Or been able since. 2013 looks like a fluke.

[triplebogeyblues]

Why must we feed the OP troll?

[JoeyD12]

Willie Mays/ Willie Mays Hayes

 

 

That right there is funny. And sadly true.

 

Hey now, Willie Mays Hayes was actually fast!

[rangersgoalie]

Orchestra music

Now

Orchestra warmup

[Man In The Miura]

the definition of perfection...now a cross between Jason Dufner and Rocco Mediate. Not a bad thing, just not Tiger.

[bscinstnct]

Golfwrxer dream swing

 

Golfwrxer swing ; )

[RipVan]

Butter/rancid Crisco

[jslane57]

Lightning / fork in the outlet.

[PowderedToastMan]

He's not far off. He just needs more room for his arms on iron swings and needs to stop aiming dead left. That and he needs to find a fairway finder shot off the tee. His days of being physically capable of ripping through thick rough frequently are over.