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I respectfully disagree with you on that. Tiger has ALWAYS had a noticeable "dip" in his swing. At certain points in his career it has been more pronounced than others, but I have never seen any correlation whatsoever between that and how well he plays. If he tried to get rid of it, not only would he lose some power, but he would also be changing an aspect of his swing that has been a constant throughout his entire career and every single swing change he's ever made. Trying to get rid of something ingrained that deeply in your muscle memory is extremely difficult and would probably lead to massive inconsistency due to Tiger being in a constant battle with his mind/body which would be trying to go back to it. Edit: Sorry if I just broke the rules by double posting, I haven't been on a forum in a while and wasn't really thinking. Won't happen again

Well it's hilarious to me because Brandel is, in my opinion, completely missing the boat on what's causing Tiger to struggle and is just trying to find something random to nitpick about his swing so that he has something to talk about. But in reality the increased lateral bend (same thing as what some people call secondary tilt) is a good thing for Tiger's swing and also protects the back more and if there is a mechanical flaw in his swing right now, that certainly is not it. I personally believe his issues have to do with how hard he's trying to swing left on every single shot. He claims he's trying to swing more like his old 2000 swing, but with how far left he's swinging right now he's unknowingly setting himself up for a more flippy/roll release and is actually getting further away from his old swing than he was with Foley. One of the main things that made his swing back around 2000 so good was how stable his release was, specifically how long the face stayed square in the hitting area before closing. What he's doing now has his release pretty much the farthest away from his prime as he's been at any point in his career. You're welcome to disagree with me of course, this is is just my opinion

Brandel with some (hilarious) insight as to why Tiger struggled so much today

Never mind guys, I found it. Evidently it is actually called the pre-set drill, which makes sense All it took was a simple google search of "golf preset drill" and I got this video as the third result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHCGNT-hPw While I pretty much stumbled upon and figured out this drill on my own from watching Fowler's and Horschel's preshot routines, what I've been doing is exactly what is described by Faldo in the video, as well as what Paula is doing in the video in the OP Anyway, this is a great drill that I'd recommend to anyone. It makes it nearly impossible to not be on plane, and thus it gives you the feeling of a good backswing so that you can replicate that feeling when you make normal swings. Personally, I struggled with not getting enough forearm rotation in my backswing and as a result my clubhead would stay way too closed and that made it very hard to get any decent wrist set without bowing my wrists and getting above plane. But with this drill, all you have to do is get your wrists set in the right position at address, and then simply rotate your body from there to make a perfect backswing. Trying to actually hit balls while doing this drill may be difficult at first for some people, but once you get used to it, it starts feeling as natural as taking a normal swing

Thanks for all the responses so quickly. Since there doesn't seem to be a definitive name for it, I'm just going to call it the preset drill from now on because I used "preset" in my original post to describe the position used in it and "preset drill" just rolls off the tongue nicely

The drill i'm referring to is the one that Paula Creamer is using in this video. She presets her arms/hands so that the club is parallel to both the ground and target line while maintaining her address posture and then completes the swing from that position after a short pause: Billy Horschel and Rickie Fowler also rehearse that same position as part of their preshot routines on most shots I've started using this both as a drill and as part of my preshot routine and it has helped me a lot with setting the club on plane. However, it would be helpful if I knew what to call it because I've showed it to several of my friends and it's kinda awkward explaining a drill without having a name to call it

Pretty bad decision in my opinion. Foley's other students have the best swings on tour right now and I think the only thing holding Tiger back from being on par with Rose or Mahan was his injuries

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My real name is Ross Baker and one of my many nicknames is Raker (just a first/last name combo, no other significance) and 2rakez is a spoof name of the rapper 2 chainz. Very random, but I'm a pretty random person. I came up with that name really recently actually, it's only my username on one website other than TST so far

All the videos except the last few are set to private. Also, you'll end up with videos that are much more viewable if you turn your phone sideways so the videos record in landscape rather than upright like these. Anyway, it looks like you have a good solid athletic swing that is a good base to work from. A few things I noticed were: 1. It seems like your takeaway is a little more to the inside than ideal, although it's difficult to tell for sure without a down the line view so I can't be sure. But you did say that you have a tendency to come outside to in through impact and an inside takeaway tends to lead to an over the top move pretty often. A swing thought you can try that might help is to try to feel like your RIGHT arm stays straight in your backswing, it won't actually stay straight the whole time, but it can help you get some width in the backswing and prevent your arms/hands from working towards your body 2. At impact you've lost a good amount of lag and you don't have enough forward shaft lean. In this screenshot you can see the clubhead is too far past your hands due to your wrists flipping. Try to feel your left wrist staying flat through impact, it really helps to practice by some hitting half to 3/4 swing punch shots while trying to exaggerate the feeling of your hands staying ahead of the clubhead

"Exploding through the ball" doesn't really seem relevant to this swing thought, you can still swing at whatever tempo and as hard or easy as you want to. I think the intended benefit or goal of this is to make it easier to use your body more efficiently, as it really helps keep the larger muscles in control and leading throughout the swing which, if executed correctly, allows you to swing hard or "explode" through the ball without having to rely on timing as much. That's what I get out of it at least

I struggle with both my swing getting too armsy and too steep sometimes (I think both are caused by overfolding the right arm), and I just tried this and I was hitting my irons more consistently than I have any time in the past few years. When I first read this tip it seemed like it would affect distance negatively, but I was dead wrong, I was hitting it as far as I normally do with what felt like swinging at 80% speed. Thanks for this, real gamechanger