Tiger has returned back to Butch Harmon, his swing coach under which he had the most success. For those of you who dont know, Butch Harmon is the most well know best golf teaching prfessional in the Golf Industry and has helped Tiger perfect his swing through out several years of his golfing career. This after spending less than a year with controversial new swing coach Sean Foley who has changed tigers swing in the last year and six years with Hank Haney who has taugh tiger in previous years.
A statement from Woods: “I’d be a fool–a complete fool–not to go back to Butch. Let’s face it, I made a mistake, a big mistake in ever leaving Butch. No slight to Hank or Sean, I love them both like cousins, but I just trusted my swing the most with Butch. And the results weren’t bad, either.” I love the idea of Tiger going back to Butch Harmon, but this is a really risky move right before the Masters. Seriously, how can Tiger expect to unlearn, in one weekend, the swing taught by Sean Foley over the past 9 months and the bad habits developed under Hank Haney for 6 years? So why would Tiger take this risk on the eve of the Masters? Is he that desperate with his swing?
Also I wonder what Phil Mickelson, Butch’s star pupil, had to say about this. Lefty probably thinks this all is a bad joke. But I am ecstatic to hear that Tiger Woods finally has come to his senses! If anyone can pull off a revamp of a swing in a weekend before the Masters, it’s Tiger–and Butch! Only time will tell if it was the right decision and I am curious to see how well he will do in the up and coming tournaments.
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