Tiger Woods Swing Change Analysis (2011 vs 2010)

[EagleEyeGolfer]

Tiger's swing looks broken on the right, but looks close to perfect on the left. 

[EagleEyeGolfer]

It would have been better if you could compare driver vs driver and not driver vs 3 wood. Of course there are many similarities in those swings, but to get an equal comparison we need to see him hitting the same club. However, your assessment of Tiger's new vs old swing is spot on. Under Sean Foley his swing looks much better; 3x better than it looked under Hankster.

[22twoswans22]

This is very relevant to my swing, cheers

[jag16]

You also can't compare these swings because of course he will be standing taller with his arms further from his body when hitting a driver.... You comparing apples to oranges here. You have good points but your comparing two completely different clubs and his setup would obviously be different whether he made a swing change or not.

[ridert3]

First point, the swing on the right looks like an 09 swing. Second point, the swing on the left is early 2011 where tiger swung the club like an amatuer. Woods is trying to get the club more infront of him like he did in the harmon days and i wouldnt worry about him trying to get the club to steapen on the down swing because the club naturally shallows when he plays the shot. He's still a bit iffy with the driver and hes certainly not making as many putts as he used to.

[purplegolf]

@ridert3 I think the big difference between the way Tiger is swinging now and under Harmon is now he's getting the arms deep, around the body but keeping the clubhead up infront. That makes for a passive release of the club with the hands. Under Harmon he got his arms swinging up infront of his body aswell as the clubhead. In my opinion that is a less natural move than getting the arms and body to work together.

[ridert3]

@purplegolf Good points man, but after a year and a half on working on his new swing, it still looks slightly mechanical(not natural). I know that Tiger will make the swing work because he has a great work ethic, but i'm just wondering whether the swing will hold up when he's in contention in a major championship.

[Fraserr1992]

Impressive I like this video, he has changed it a bit since early 2011 but hey you still get you'r point across with the on plane at top compared to laid off before.

Good works boys

[pinseeker87]

really good video very similar to the changes i am going through with my pro moving away from a (massive!) lay off at the top of the backswing.

As well as standing far more over the ball a drill he showed me which has really helped is an old Leadbetter drill of standing a hand-span away from a wall and using an old club swing back without touching the wall. Virtually impossible at the start but now hitting it far more solidly.

[lilmikeii24]

you cant use these swings, the one from early this year was not succesful and he has made changes since.. and early 2010 he was severing from haney and starting to use the foley, so it was also not a good.. i say use one from late 2011, and late 2009... tht would be a good comparison since they were both winning swings...

[purplegolf]

@lilmikeii24 Fair comments and we will be looking at Tiger's latest swing in more depth over the coming months. I think the point about using the 2010 swing over 2009 is to investigate why Tiger was struggling with his swing and why he made the move away from Haney