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Tiger Woods falls from No.1 to Lee Westwood, but for how long?

Tiger Woods falls from No.1 to Lee Westwood, but for how long?

11.03.2010 – Tiger Woods is no longer the No.1 golfer in the world? Yup, it’s true. Woods, who has held the No.1 golf ranking in the world for 281 weeks, has fallen from his position to British golfer Lee Westwood on Sunday.

The Englishman Lee Westwood moved into the No.1 spot in the world on Sunday, while becoming the first European in 16 years to be ranked the No.1 golfer in the world. Just like Tiger Woods, Westwood did not win a major tournament this year and he’s only the fourth player in history to be No. 1 without doing so.

“Whenever you can sit down and say, ‘I’m the best in the world right now,’ it’s a dream that everybody holds,” Westwood said.

Although, Westwood has only finished one tournament since the British Open because of a calf injury, he was statistically destined to move into the No.1 spot, just as long as German golfer, Martin Kaymer, the PGA champion, did not finish among he top two at the Andalucia Masters in Spain, which he did not, as Kaymer finished tied for 21st. Continue reading “Tiger Woods falls from No.1 to Lee Westwood, but for how long?”

Tiger Woods And His Putter

Tiger Woods And His Putter

Seems like every time he has a putt of 30 feet or more, the ball grazes the hole or finishes a foot away for Tiger Woods.

No. 1, he puts a great roll on the ball, and that’s because his mechanics are very solid. The face of his putter is squaring to the path at impact, not cutting against it, and he has that constant acceleration. He never looks like he’s holding the putter back or accelerating it; it looks like the putter accelerates itself. And finally, he practices long, breaking putts. You’ve got to hit it solid to be close to the hole from long range.

Tiger talks about releasing the putterhead.

That’s a word that describes a specific feel for a very good player. It goes back to the pendulum: if you keep your center (head and sternum) still and you let the weight of the putter go past your center, that’s releasing the putter. I don’t think it’s flipping the putter or necessarily closing the face; it just has to do with simply letting the putter go past your center.

Is there a drill you’d recommend for short putts, long putts, or both?

Hit your long putt first, then try and convert the short one.

Most golfers have what I like to refer to as a signature backstroke. They take the club back the same distance for almost all putts. Let’s say it’s 12 inches – if they take it back 12 inches on a 4-foot putt their brain starts screaming, “Slow down!” If they take it back 12 inches on a 40-foot putt their brain screams, “Speed up!” Ultimately, what you really want to learn is what length backstroke is right for each putt. If you’ve got a 4-foot putt you should really have a backstroke of 6 inches. (Normal green speed, stimped at 10). If you’ve got a 40-foot putt you really need a backstroke that’s somewhere around 15 inches, so you’re allowing the putterhead to create its own momentum.

Think about a pendulum: A pendulum you swing way back and the distance it travels determines how fast it moves forward. If you swung it 6 inches it would swing slower than if you swung it 15 inches. What happens with most people is they’re controlling the putter’s speed versus letting it swing by itself. If you look at the best putters, they have a constant rate of acceleration and an equal back and through motion.

Any advice for the weekend golfer?

There are 10 people come through our short game school regularly, and I think 70 percent have the wrong putter; it’s not the right specifications for them. So they’re never going to get better. It’s like glasses: You won’t see clearly until you have the right specs.

Stop wasting your time with band-aids and quick fixes that don’t do anything. Get to the heart of the problem, and get fitted.

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Putter Will Be The Key Factor If Woods Wins Again

Putter Will Be The Key Factor If Woods Wins Again

Article by Aaliyah Green







It was glad to see a Woods holding the trophy again Sunday. Cheyenne Woods, a junior at Wake Forest, won the Atlantic Coast Conference women’s golf championship by seven shots, firing a bogey-free 68 in the final round.

Just like Uncle Tiger used to do it. “My niece, Cheyenne, just won the ACC golf title by 7 shots with TaylorMade R9! That’s awesome, I’m so proud of her,” Tiger said.

Meanwhile, it has been 586 days since Cheyenne’s famous uncle held a trophy. Woods is going to win again, of that much we’re certain. He showed flashes of Tiger 1.0 at the Masters, particularly the hooking 3-wood that chased up onto the eighth green in the final round, setting up an eagle putt that shook the pines, led to a front-nine 31 and put him in the mix.

Now, his decline is going to be different than, say, Billy Mayfair’s. It’s just that what once seemed a given. Woods surpassing Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major championships is looking less and less like a sure thing.

The competition is better than it was 10 years ago, when Woods basically had to beat Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh. Now, there are Rory McIlroys, Charl Schwartzels and Matteo Manasseros coming out of the woodwork, and none of them are intimidated by Woods.

Woods’ thrice-overhauled swing is a favourite topic of the television analysts, but it’s obvious he’s making progress under Sean Foley and he struck the ball well enough to win the Masters. It’s the putter that is holding him back. For a dozen years, Woods was maybe the best clutch putter the game had ever seen. At times, such as on the 72nd hole of the 2008 U.S. Open by Ping G15, he seemingly willed the ball into the cup. No one can putt like that forever. Of the game’s best players, only Nicklaus remained a great putter past his physical prime. Is Tiger’s time up? He has switched from the Scotty Cameron with which he won 71 tournaments to a Nike Method. That bespeaks a lack of confidence.

What happened at Augusta National 10 days ago, even given Woods’ long winless drought, was eye-opening if not shocking. In the old days, if he’d shot 31 on the front nine Sunday and was tied for the lead with the back nine to play, it was over.

But Woods managed only a pedestrian 36 coming in. He is three-putted on No. 12, inexplicably missing a two-footer for par. The CBS announcers tried to make excuses for him, pointing out that he had to wait a long time while playing partner Martin Laird three-putted. Woods hit a great shot on the par-5 15th to set up a six-footer for eagle and Woods Wins But Not Tiger, the kind of pressure putt he once rammed into the back of the cup. This time, he tried to coax it in with a tentative stroke and missed. On the par-3 16th he played too much break on a 10-foot birdie putt and missed again.

Of all the obstacles he will have to overcome to catch Nicklaus – an aging body, a crop of talented young kids, a closing window of opportunity – it is the putter that ultimately will determine whether he is successful.



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Memorial Lessons From Tiger

Memorial Lessons From Tiger

Article by Charlie G Wallace







What a stunning performance from Tiger Woods at the Memorial event in Ohio on Sunday. Four strokes off the lead at the start of the final day, Tiger blazed his way to the top of the leaderboard and then held off challenges from both Jim Furyk and Jonathon Byrd to win his fourth Memorial title.

I watched the closing holes from about the 14th and saw Tiger taking out the opposition with a birdie on the 18th hole after a brilliant approach shot. He is definitely a man for the big occasion and big events and he instinctively knows when, and how to apply pressure on his opponents.

I know there are some who don’t like Tiger, but I am a big fan. We are lucky enough to be witnessing one of the best golfers ever in Tiger and one just has to admire the way he plays the game.

What can we learn from Tiger’s performance that could be useful to our games as golf beginners or seasoned players?

There are three things that stand out for me about Tiger on Sunday;

1. His desire to win2. His ability to get the job done, and3. His phenomenal success rate off the tee in the final round.

Just focussing on the third of these, Tiger hit the fairways on every occasion he was required to. 100% fairways in regulation and the TV commentators (which included Nick Faldo) rated his final round as one of his best ever.

If you’re anything like me, consistency off the tee is more of an aspiration than a reality. I do sometimes get it right and sometimes my drives are OK, but I’ve a tendency to hook and slice and I usually have some of each in the course of my rounds.

I always have a smile when I see the pros spraying their drives left or right. It reassures me that even the best can do it, and of course, Tiger is no stranger to these errors. In recent times he has been guilty of them quite often.

Some pundits reckon that he attempts to hit the driver a lot harder in tour events than he does in practice. He doesn’t take his practice drives to the course when he plays in competitions. By all accounts, he did on Sunday. He wasn’t thrashing the drives and consequently he ended up on the fairway every time he needed to.

This tells us two things;

1. That it is important to identify and recognise important elements of our games that need correcting;driving, approach shots, pitching, chipping or putting and doing something about them, and

2. That controlled drives off the tee landing on the fairway will (should) produce a better round of golf and lower scores. [The corollary of this, of course, is that the controlled shots practiced on the range are the ones we should use on the course. There is no point in learning and practicing to do something and then doing something else when you take your game public.]

After my game at the weekend I know that my putting let me down, and if I had landed on the fairway more frequently, I could have shaved 5 to 7 shots off my score. Something to look forward to next time, hey? There’s always something that keeps us coming back.



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Charlie Wallace is a former college lecturer and trainer who is passionate about golf. His website contains some simple instruction for golf beginners – young and old, men and women. For a great place to start your golf journey and to return to for golf tips and hints – www.start2playgolf.com