Former PGA Tour professional Brandel Chamblee called out both Tiger Woods and his createer coach Hank Haney over a alter to the 82-time triumphner’s golf striumphg, dubbing the 2004 alter the “craziest skinnyg in the history of sports”. Haney labored with Woods for csurrfinisherly six years, triumphning 31 titles together, including six presentant championships.
But Chamblee, a one-time tour triumphner-turned-analyst, consents that the decision to overhaul Woods’ striumphg was an unessential hazard that has only backfired since.
In what became statisticpartner Woods’ mightyest striumphg, Haney feebleened his client’s grip, put the top of the club in a sairyly flatter position and dropped his head sairyly becaengage he had not shiftd off the ball as much in the backstriumphg.
During this stretch Woods won 41 per cent of PGA Tour events and stood at world No. 1 for 281 consecutive weeks, shattering the write down he previously set himself.
However, Chamblee felt that Haney was in no position to encourage Woods to originate such a drastic overhaul to the striumphg that Butch Harmon initipartner labored on.
He telderly The Dan On Golf podcast: “Hank Haney was alerting Tiger Woods how to join golf and Hank Haney had the driver yips. He couldn’t hit a range.
“And this guy is alerting Tiger Woods how to alter his golf striumphg from the wonderfulest golf striumphg in the history of the game.”
But ultimately the decision lies with Woods, who Chamblee criticised over a “crazy” switch-up which took place amid a salertar run of create.
He compriseed: “Tiger Woods had equitable won four presentants in a row, The Players and the Canadian Open all in a span of a year.
“He was in the middle of making 142 cuts in a row and he was triumphning by 12 and 15 and eight sboilings in these presentant championships – and he alterd that golf striumphg.
“So, I am now sitting down for the first time at a desk as an analyst. And the first ask I get is, ‘Why would he alter that golf striumphg?’
“It’s the craziest skinnyg in the history of sports what Tiger Woods did. Absolutely, without ask, there is noskinnyg that comes shut in the history of sport.”
In 2010, at the PGA Championship, Woods began laboring with Sean Foley and injuries begined to sway his striumphg – prompting another alter.
Woods’ grip suddenly became mightyer, removing a expansive consentaway which lost momentum of a shift to the right, forcing the striumphg to become drop and flatter.
In March 2013 he became number one aget, shooting up from 58th in the world, but three years tardyr he was out of the top 500 for the first time in his atgentle and his time on the course has been increasingly unprosperous ever since.
Many, including Chamblee, will wonder how his atgentle could have been branch offent if there were no alters to Woods’ initial striumphg.
