Tiger Woods - head going back or head steady?

[nevets88]

It looks to me just a smidge back, not very much though. Have to look at Foley swing vs now, but going to guess not much difference?

 

[Zeph]

Isn't that mostly a driver thing? I think I've seen it remain pretty steady with irons.

[billchao]

11 minutes ago, Zeph said:

Isn't that mostly a driver thing? I think I've seen it remain pretty steady with irons.

Yea, it's ok to have the weight back a little bit on the driver because the ball is teed up and you're hitting it on the upswing.

His head is quite steady once it's back there, but also remember it's less about the actual head movement than the upper rotational center.

[JonMA1]

I don't think the "steady head" has ever meant perfectly still. Plus, these tour pros are on a different level. Maybe I'm wrong, but they do things for a reason as opposed to not being able to change.

Looking at a slow motion video of Justin Thomas' iron swing, he moves his head slightly forward to initiate the downswing. He probably does that exactly the some way every time he swings that club and it isn't very much movement. If for some reason he wanted to reduce it, he probably could.

When an instructor asks a student to reduce head movement, I would think it's because the movement is excessive and with damaging results.

[iacas]

2 hours ago, JonMA1 said:

I don't think the "steady head" has ever meant perfectly still.

Correct.

We'd call that a steady head, particularly for a driver swing (most amount of freedom).

[Buckeyebowman]

Whether you keep your head steady, or move it back slightly when coming into the ball, your results will be much better than if you lunge your head toward the target at the initiation of the downswing. Ask me how I know! I once saw a film study of Fred Couples' head while he was swinging a driver. You could see his head moving slightly away from the target on the backswing, slightly toward the target at the initiation of the downswing, and again slightly away from the target at impact. I think that the doctrine of "keep your head still" freezes up too many golfers and inhibits them from making a full and free swing.

[iacas]

5 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

Whether you keep your head steady, or move it back slightly when coming into the ball, your results will be much better than if you lunge your head toward the target at the initiation of the downswing. Ask me how I know! I once saw a film study of Fred Couples' head while he was swinging a driver. You could see his head moving slightly away from the target on the backswing, slightly toward the target at the initiation of the downswing, and again slightly away from the target at impact. I think that the doctrine of "keep your head still" freezes up too many golfers and inhibits them from making a full and free swing.

Key #1: Steady Head doesn't mean "keep your head dead still."

This is made pretty clear every time we cover this topic.

[onthehunt526]

6 hours ago, iacas said:

Key #1: Steady Head doesn't mean "keep your head dead still."

This is made pretty clear every time we cover this topic.

Even in LSW, which just touches on it, says a little movement is okay. You just don't want to look like your bobbing for apples or something. 

Tiger actually has moved his head slightly with even the Harmon swing... Not a lot... Just a bit... But he's always moved it... bit... namely in the backswing and the downswing... but it looks mostly rotational to me.,

[Buckeyebowman]

23 hours ago, iacas said:

Key #1: Steady Head doesn't mean "keep your head dead still."

This is made pretty clear every time we cover this topic.

That's kind of what I said, wasn't it?