Now that you know how to focus on your fundamentals like Tiger Woods, it's time to learn how to practice like he does. Well, not exactly like he does, because unless you're unemployed and live next door to an all-you-can-hit, 24-hour driving range, you probably won't wear out the grooves in your irons in less than a year like Tiger.
Fixing problems
How does Tiger check his swing mechanics? Sometimes he'll get on the range and hit short shots (maybe 60-70
yards) with a long iron. "Look at it this
way: If you swing a golf club at let's say
hypothetically 120 miles per hour and
you slow it down to 50 miles per hour,
how much easier is it to feel where each
and every body part is when you drop
it down over 50 percent in speed," Woods
said at a recent Nike demonstration. "I
try to feel everything moving in the golf
swing, where I'm going wrong in the
swing, and try to pinpoint it so I can fix
it and then exaggerate it a little bit."
His warm up
"I spend more time with my 8-iron or my
4-iron before I move onto my woods," Woods said. "Other times I may spend more time with my woods because that
may be something I just don't quite feel
right [about] that day. It's all just a feel
thing, but I basically hit about the same
amount of golf balls at the same amount
of time. I warm up by hitting golf balls for
probably 40 minutes just about on the
clock every time.
"I'm always trying to do something with it. That may mean that I only fade it one yard or draw it one yard, change it just a little bit, but I'm always trying to do something with it. I can't go out there and look at a flag and just hit it. I'm trying to place the golf ball in a certain area."
"A lot of times, they ask me the question, 'How many flags did you fire at today?' Well, I fired at one. 'Why would you only fire at one flag?' Well ... I may be firing six feet right or six feet left of the flag. That was my target." — Mike Walker
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