Tiger Woods’ Short Game Clinic With Collin Morikawa | TaylorMade Golf

Would have been better if they didn't talk over each other so much…

Tiger could become the GOAT golf coach if he wanted to.

It is so cool to see Tiger embrace the "golf dad" roll for all of these young pros.

Go to school on how Tiger grips his club which is the secret to control and the little explained magic of the “Vardon” grip used correctly as he does.

Note how the lead hand is put on the grip ‘strong’ with the thumb down the right side of the shaft not the middle. That’s what allows the trail hand to overlap it properly.

The correct way to apply the trail hands isn’t thumb pad then fingers but to place the tips the fingers under the club and then wrap the trail hand towards the target. The goal here is to set up counter-torque between the two hands so they function as a single unit AND constrain wrist action except in the direction of 👍 👉 thumb-up / down radial-to-ulnar deviation. To do this the trail hand needs to be as high as possible over the lead one and wrapped over the top as much as Tiger does.

Nest watch his forearm muscles when he lowers the club, they appear to be contracting but what is actually happening is the pressing down action with both arms to take the ‘slack’ out of them STRETCHES the muscles. Those muscles in the forearm are the ones which control GRIP PRESSURE in the fingers via the tendons. The difference in the grip between relaxed when putting the hands on the handle and how it feels when downwards pressure is applied is like night and day!

When the club is gripped properly and the arms are extended in addition to the the stretching in the forearms it causes them both to rotate inwards against each other which acts to lock them together making it difficult to move the club front to back with extension/flexion but still very easy to ‘waggle’ the club head up with shaft coming up and back down at a 45° angle. As you waggle that way you will see the face open on the way up and then come back square when it comes back down — the same way, every time. Why? Because of gripping and extending arms to stretch and rotate the forearms and hands against each other eliminate the variable extension / flexion and pronation / supination as the hands come back down into ulnar deviation.

I know it sounds complicated — why Hogan devoted 18 pages of Five Lessons to grip technique — but it is the #1 fundamental all the other actions in the swing rely on.

The trail arm folds down correctly in the backswing only if the trail hand is wrapped over the top at address because that forces the trail wrist into maxed out extension at just the right time in the backswing sequence to control the lead arm and hands and cause the club head to travel to the top on the ideal path. I learned how to do that copying the fold out stop action photos in Tiger’s 2002 book ‘How I Play Golf’ in between two mirrors mimicking every hand and club head position. Thank you Tiger! ❤

Gripping the club as described above is one of the keys to controlling the face in short game and it actually works similarly in full swings but it is more difficult to feel and notice because things happen so much faster and the force pulling the slack out of the arms so much greater.

In the short game because the club forced doesn’t pull the slack out of the arms you must do it by pushing the hands down at the ball to get solid control of the face through contact with the turf. Loose wrists sink chips 😂

Artists, they are playing chess and the rest of us are playing go fish

these type of conversations is so much easier to understand and relate to…love it!

These guys don't let each other finish their thoughts…

This is brilliant! This is gold! Props to Collin for the prompts and questions he is asking Tiger. This is an insight into the nuggets of gold Tiger got from his mentors. History repeats. More of this unscripted stuff!

I would do some strange things to be able to sit there and hit golf balls with Tiger. Learning from the Big Cat. “Honestly I’d start stroking guys”

The wear marks on tigers wedge omg 😢
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Great stuff😊