Tiger Woods Swings at 2002 PGA Grand Slam

[@plutoniumrocket]

Listening to him talk to himself is the best thing about this video

[@Whoopdido777]

He was still using his old Titleist 975D driver with a 43.5 in long shaft at this time. Basically the same setup as he had from 1999-2001 during his absolute prime. Then in 2002 he switched to a bigger head and won The Masters and US Open. Supposedly, according to his club making guy, during the early 2000’s after switching to bigger heads and longer and lighter shafts, his stock swings produced ball speeds north of 190 mph.

[@BirdmanDeuce26]

Nike struggled for years to make a driver head that matched/outperformed his old Titleist; if I recall, it wasn’t until they got to the Ignite series that he got something that he actually liked. I wonder if he wouldn’t have been so hard on his body trying to outdrive/outhit everyone with “outdated” equipment, his legs would’ve lasted longer and maybe he’d have stuck with the Harmon swing instead of tearing everything up and starting over with the Haney swing.

[@Whoopdido777]

@@BirdmanDeuce26 The Haney swing was better though. His driver swing with Harmon might have been better, but I’d say his Haney iron swing was better. That’s why he was actually more consistent under Haney. Because he was just a great iron player at that time. He was ridiculously good at that time. Also, people tend to forget about just about great his short game was.

[@stephencarlin7867]

No he wasn’t - he was using a JDI Nike prototype driver here. There was a swoosh on the sole. It didn’t last very long in the bag.

[@hlf_coder6272]

@@Whoopdido777 I'd disagree with that. I think the Butch swing was better, as evidenced by the fact that he played his best golf with it. "Better" is entirely subjective, but I think Tiger's Butch era swing was the best swing in history, and its tenacity matched Tiger's personality

[@Whoopdido777]

@@hlf_coder6272 Darn it. I do this all the time. I had lengthy response written out and then I clicked off it by mistake and then it disappeared and now I don’t really want to rewrite it. Basically, I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with you. The only thing I’ll say is that, even though he won fewer majors with Hank, he had a 33.3% winning percentage with Hank vs about a roughly 25-26% winning percentage with Butch. I mean winning 1/4 of every tournament you enter is crazy enough, but 1/3?

[@00RMC00]

The ball striking is spectacular

[@gregorycampbell9386]

This was pretty insane. The pureness of the ball striking is nearly unreplicatable.

[@RealHIFIHelp]

6.5 degree xxstiff steel shafted driver of the deck, just crazy. (back in the days when the driver had a very high center of gravity)

[@ScratchArkkitehti]

Golfsauce is a legend for these recent posts!!!! #savage !!!

[@Daniel-yz3zf]

Wow, I've never seen that driver off the deck!! Insane

[@shukigkato]

Some insane ballstriking in the second round there.

[@jamesadcock5235]

players today are not this good

[@jarvarislove697]

If he starts winning again he will take over rankings.

[@cgasucks]

I would love to see that but there's too many young guns out there. Tiger's not 25 anymore.

[@brmillgr]

Nobody has ever been that good.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

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[@PrestigedGamerJ]

Holy crap, ernie johnson commentated??

[@TheLocalLt]

Jack Rodrickson he still does TNT Golf, he’s calling the PGA Championship coming up in May on TNT

[@hosoiarchives4858]

I had that driver

Another drive off to the right, who knew....lol

[@maxcaysey2844]

I mean that swing... phenomenal!