Tiger Woods As A Swing Guru? It's Not In His DNA - Dog Leg News

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Tom Edrington

Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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4 Comments

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    Nick

    Sorry Tom but your statement “Note to Van Valkenburg — 12 majors with Harmon, two without.” is incorrect. Woods (arguably) won 8 of his majors with Butch and 6 with Hank.

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      Tom Edrington

      Thanks for the correction Nick….eight with Butch, six with Hank, apologies to Hank…..so 14 with the two……Brandel Chamblee once said Tiger would have had 25 if he had stuck with Butch.

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    IronMike

    That really is not a preposterous idea seeing he was indeed coached by Harmon and no doubt learned some valuable techniques that he can pass along.

    He wouldn’t have to go into a full swing to speak and/or illustrate what a student need to do to improve their swing. He has proven that he can indeed swing the club and there has been and are still in existence many video footage of analysts comparing Tiger’s swing and suggesting others should emulate it.

    Regardless if he is a poor example of moral fibers, the fact remains that he can indeed coach and be a great golf swing coach. Whether he does that or not is another matter and another story.

    FTR, I am NOT a Tiger Woods fan, just a realist to the facts.

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      Tom Edrington

      If you could have a private chat with all of his teachers combined, you’d probably find out that Woods tried to glean only what he thought would work….if he was that knowledgeable, he’d be able to fix himself without going to any teacher. Lee Trevino once said he’d take a lesson from anyone who could beat him.

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