Tiger Woods ripped apart over craziest decision | Golf News

Former PGA Tour skilled Brandel Chamblee has criticized each Tiger Woods and his former coach Hank Haney for a 2004 change to Woods’ golf swing, which he described because the “craziest thing in the history of sports”. Haney labored with Woods for practically six years, during which they received 31 titles collectively, together with six main championships.

However, Chamblee, who’s now an analyst after profitable one tour, believes that the decision to utterly change Woods’ swing was an pointless risk that has solely backfired since then.

Haney made modifications to what grew to become statistically Woods’ strongest swing, weakening his grip, putting the highest of the membership in a barely flatter place, and dropping his head barely as a result of he had not moved off the ball as a lot within the backswing.

During this period, Woods received 41 per cent of PGA Tour occasions and held the world No. 1 spot for 281 consecutive weeks, breaking the file he had beforehand set himself.

But Chamblee felt that Haney was not in a place to induce Woods to make such a drastic overhaul to the swing that Butch Harmon initially labored on.

He informed The Dan On Golf podcast: “Hank Haney was telling Tiger Woods how to play golf and Hank Haney had the driver yips. He couldn’t hit a range. And this guy is telling Tiger Woods how to change his golf swing from the greatest golf swing in the history of the game.”

But in the end, Chamblee mentioned, the decision lies with Woods, whom he criticized for a “crazy” switch-up that came about during a stellar run of type.

He remarked: “Tiger Woods had just won four majors in a row, The Players and the Canadian Open all in a span of a year. He was in the middle of making 142 cuts in a row and he was winning by 12 and 15 and eight shots in these major championships – and he changed that golf swing.

“So, I’m now sitting down for the primary time at a desk as an analyst. And the primary query I get is, ‘Why would he change that golf swing?’ It’s the craziest factor within the historical past of sports activities what Tiger did. Absolutely, with out query, there’s nothing that comes close within the historical past of sport.”

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Later, Woods’ collaboration with Sean Foley on the PGA Championship in 2010 appears to be the purpose when accidents started plaguing his swing, resulting in yet one more transformation.

The changes to Woods’ grip grew stronger, which led him to desert a broad takeaway, inflicting a loss within the momentum of shifting proper and consequently leading to a shorter, flatter swing.

Woods climbed back to world primary in March 2013, rocketing from 58th place, however by three years later, he’d plummeted out of the highest 500 for the primary time in his storied profession, and his time on the course has dwindled in success ever since.

Observers, together with Chamblee, ponder over how totally different his profession might need been if Woods had caught along with his unique swing.