I caught a bit of the match play yesterday, and it looks like Tiger is really struggling with a misunderstanding of alignments.
His misses are high right with the driver/full power.
His misses are pulled left with the shorter irons.
Both of which are caused by his high right forearm at address, and a mistaken perception that "address is impact" (per his book).
The problem with this is that if he thinks he needs to return to his address postion, he is almost certain to arrive with the right foream above plane.
From that position, he either must either:
a) completely surrender to CF (his good shots, with good Rhythm)
or
b) come in over plane when not at full power (pulled miss)
c) at full power, properly send the right shoulder down plane, but given the high right forearm address, an instant under plane block.
The solution:
A properly set right forearm flying wedge at address, with a level right wrist.
An understanding that address and impact are not the same and that the right shoulder must go down plane (which he did very well in 2000).
Tiger has always looked to my eye to trend toward hitting, but his new pattern is a swing. He has the pattern 'almost' down, but that poor right forearm forces him to try to 'save' a shot with the hands, or worse, the shoulder.
Even as good as the greatest player ever is, he can not escape the laws of physics and geometry!
If I had Tiger on the lesson tee - lesson 1 would be impact fix and the flying wedges alignments!
Ed,
Another great post. Please elaborate on what "high right forearn" is.
I can visualize it over or under plane, and only one of them is probably correct.
Hybrid Mode
