Tiger Woods Swing – How Tiger Avoids Getting Stuck on the Downswing

Tiger Woods has spoken openly about the frustrating sensation of getting stuck during the downswing — a flawed position where the club path approaches the ball excessively from the inside, producing either a blocked push or a violent flip hook. It is one of the most common golf swing faults at every skill level, and understanding how Tiger solved it reveals a great deal about elite ball-striking mechanics.

Throughout his career, Tiger Woods made several targeted adjustments to eliminate this problem in his transition and downswing sequence. In this analysis, I will break down the primary move that helps all golfers avoid the dreaded stuck position. I am using tour professional Skip Kendall as the contrasting example — a textbook illustration of the wrong movement pattern that traps the club behind the body. You can see how your own swing compares to elite patterns with a free AI swing analysis.

Skip unwinds his shoulders immediately from the top of his backswing, rotating his upper body aggressively toward the target right from the start. This premature shoulder rotation generates centripetal force which, in turn, produces centrifugal force — and that is where the real trouble begins.

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Here is the critical part that most golfers miss. The centrifugal force effectively “throws” the club outward, away from the body and off the ideal swing plane. In simpler golf instruction terms, he loses lag early in the downswing, as so many amateurs do. The club is cast away from the body before the hands even reach waist height.

The key to solving this problem lies in using the correct musculature during the downswing to pull the club back in front of the body, rather than creating this destructive “throw out” motion that Skip Kendall demonstrates. Observe the side-by-side comparison and notice how the swing plane and club path diverge dramatically between these two players:

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