What will Tiger do next?

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Butch should be held responsible for the exacerbation of his knee injury (see knee injury in the ‘walking the talk’ section of this blog). Sean for his recent elbow injury.

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Incidentally, Sean is completely correct about not moving so much – it reduces a golfer’s margin for error. Weight shift, folks, is passe. See how Tiger Woods’ swing has evolved from that of his early coaches’ to the present one. He has successfully cut out too much lateral movement – which is good. He has done so, however, without correct top-of-backswing joint positions – which is bad. A compact swing is truly ‘economy in motion’ as Bruce Lee might say – very important for an explosive power move. However, the telegram number list more compact the moves, the less room there is for the poor-joint-position-compensatory-moves to be made!

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So, Sean Foley is right in theory, but wrong in practice. Here’s why:

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From the top of this position, he must drop down (laterally flex) the entire trunk – vertebra by vertebra (a frontal plane move), while at the same time straightening his knee (a sagittal plane move), as he tries to rotate his body – lower body first, to produce speed and deliver the club to the ball from the inside. Not to mention that his right wrist extension (backward bend) will have put his right arm into internal rotation, which he will have to put into external rotation (so as to save his elbow) along the way.