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Tiger Woods is teaching his young cub Charlie to play golf.  That is a great father/son relationship, and no doubt Charlie will benefit from getting some of the best coaching around.

The problem is that Tiger has a very special skill set, which you could rightly call unique, and the chances of young Charlie possessing that same set of skills is remote.

Other well known golfing fathers have been down that route, and none of the sons have come anyway near emulating the great records of the their fathers.

When I was a youngster motor-bikes were all the rage, in 1956 the Triumph Thunderbird held the world speed record, ridden by American Johnny Allen, at 214 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats.  Triumph also produced a smaller engined bike at that time, the Tiger Cub, which could only achieve about a third of that speed.

Tiger has a great PGA record, so far he has 79 wins, 14 of which are Majors, he has his sights set on the Major wins record of Jack Nicklaus, at 18.  Can Tiger achieve that goal, as everyday passes, and the injuries keep appearing that likelihood seems so far out of reach.

Unless of course the latest version of Tiger’s swing can prove to be successful, its all in the thought processes, but it also has to be pain free.

It’s all down to swing speed, and the golfing boffins studying rotary swing research have said that the changes will start to take place in the brain after roughly 100 perfect repetitions, this process is called myelination.  From there it’s roughly 3,000 to 5,000 repetitions in order for the brain to ingrain the new movement pattern.

Tiger is aware of the time frame;

“I will change everything, It will take tens of thousands of balls on the range to ingrain it.

Jack thinks Tiger will get it sorted out, today’s technology is something that he did not have:

“He physically will be able to do certain things, and physically there are certain things he won’t be able to do.  And he’s got to figure it out, he’s got to do it within what he can do.”

“He can have instant replay of what he does.  Makes a golf swing, boom he can see it just as fast as he did it, maybe a half a second, one second later.  We couldn’t do that.”

As for Charlie as he grows will the pressure be just too much to bear?  I hope that he does play good golf, and do very well, but to achieve what dad has done!

It was said many years ago that the swing of Tiger would give him back problems as he aged.  Butch Harmon was the first coach to change things, and since then Tiger has changed things a few times.  Now he is trying to get the best swing he can, with-out injuring his back, or left knee again.

He must be envious of Charlie’s swing right now:

“He’s got some parts in his swing that I’m trying to do.  It’s a little frustrating at times.”


Cover Photo by PA Air Guard on Flickr

Pete Robbins is CEO of White Dragon Golf, an Amazon author and a life long golf nut. He has produced the latest innovative putter available on the market, which can reduce your putts per round. Pete has teaching video’s on you-tube and on the web-site www.whitedragongolf.com.

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