If you know your golf, you'll remember that Tiger Woods took time out to change his swing after he won his first few majors.
Why on earth would a young 20 something guy, with the world at his feet, change the one of the best golf swings on the planet? I'll tell you why, it was to make it better of course. Since the invention of modern golf and more specifically, the introduction of steel shafted clubs, professional golfers have used a technique called 'late hands'. On the backswing the wrists are cocked, away from the ball and on the downswing, right at the very last second, the hands and wrists are forced through the impact zone. This move will bend the shaft and accelerates the clubhead. The faster the clubhead is travelling at impact, the greater the distance the golf ball will travel.
The one fatal drawback is this, inaccuracy. At speeds of over 120 miles per hour, even a phenomenal athlete like Tiger cannot control a 'wrist snap' every time. Especially under pressure. So Tiger did a brave thing, he changed the most successful golf swing of the era to simplify it and make it better. Now I want to ask you something, does Tiger still hit the ball a long way? Of course he does. Its amazing to me how Tiger used the same fundamentals of a simpler golf swing to increase his consistency by taking 'late hands' out of his game. If this 'connected swing' idea can work for Tiger, it can work for us mere mortals.
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