No Laying Up<\/a>, Harmon revealed that slowing everything down on the practice ground was key to Woods creating his new swing. <\/p>\n\u201cThink about \u201998, he won one time. One, it\u2019s all he won in 1998. He spent a whole year working on changes to his swing. Then came \u201999, 2000, \u201901, \u201902, the rest is history. And I tell people that I give a lesson to all the time, and you guys can relate to this if you take a lesson from your local PGA pro, it\u2019s going to take time, change takes time. When you go out and you don\u2019t play good, you just throw it out. \u2018Well, that\u2019s not working\u2019,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s the greatest player who ever lived, working harder than anybody who ever lived, and it took him about seven months to feel comfortable. I got a call from him one day on the range, it may have been around August, September, and he says, \u2018okay Butch, I got it. I really got it now, right where I want it, everything\u2019s good, the film looks good. I\u2019m sending you the film\u2019. He says, \u2018everything was perfect\u2019. And he was right. But he worked so hard on that. I wanted to do a little bit at a time. \u2018No, I want to do it all right now\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of you who are watching this show who take lessons, I\u2019m going to tell you something he did that I think would help you when you take lessons. He must have hit balls with a slow motion swing a thousand times, just making a full swing in slow motion to put the hands and arms and body rotation in the same position every time where he could feel that he was trying to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe average person, those of you who are watching, you can learn from that. Slow motion swings are a fabulous way for a player to feel what they\u2019re trying to do, because in slow motion you can literally get your hands and arms and body in the right place. You can feel yourself coming down and how you come through the shot, and film it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The saying Tiger Woods used to have before a round during his peak<\/p>\n
It is difficult to imagine what the experience of playing in Woods\u2019 era must have been like. Everyone in the field knew that Woods was going to be unbeatable if he was anywhere near his best. <\/p>\n
And it would appear that Woods fed off that aura to make him feel invincible. <\/p>\n
Harmon shared what Woods used to say to him on the range when he was at the peak of his powers. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen the great players play, and I\u2019ve never seen anybody control a ball like he did in 2000. Through the air, he had everything. He worked so hard on his wedge play, his short iron stuff with the three-quarter shots, he hit them all the time. Everybody talks about the shot out of the rough on six, to get up over the hill there. He took that six iron and just nuked it as hard as he could swing, got it up on the green and I think Roger Maltbie said, \u2018this isn\u2019t a fair fight\u2019. He was amazing,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a saying. He\u2019s probably not going to like that I\u2019m going to tell you this. He had a saying that he used to tell Stevie and I on the range. He goes, \u2018I know that they know that I know they can\u2019t beat me\u2019. And that\u2019s a hell of a saying. That was his mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harmon must have felt enormous pressure working with Woods. Everyone felt that they knew what he was capable of once he won The Masters by a record margin 29 years ago. <\/p>\n
However, the pair swiftly set to work on substantial changes. Golf has seen numerous players, including major champions, almost ruin their game because of their belief that their swing needs to be overhauled. <\/p>\n
Had Woods gone on and not won another major, Harmon would have taken all sorts of criticism. And he would have been well aware of that during that wait for Woods\u2019 victory at the 1999 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
It says a lot about the two men that they never lost faith that they were making the right decision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Butch Harmon has revealed that slow motion swings were the key to Tiger Woods working on the changes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-941191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}