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Tiger Woods has made many swing changes with Sean Foley that are potentially harmful for your health! As this video discusses, there are two key moves that Tiger is working on that put unnecessary stress on the lead hip and spine.
Over time, these moves can cause degenerative wear on the cartilage in his lead hip and will undoubtedly put increased stress on his spine stabilizer muscles and ligaments. In my opinion, these moves are going to effectively “age” Tiger’s body much more rapidly than his swing before and lead to back and hip pain/injury if he doesn’t continue to work out to stay incredibly fit and strong. Even still, there is a very high increase of injury in my opinion.
In the image below from the video, I’m demonstrating the look of Tiger’s new follow through which is created by “pushing” the trail shoulder through the shot. This position can only be achieved by rotating aggressively around the spine in the downswing when the stresses on the spine are already very high. Tiger no longer finishes with his chest facing the target — his chest now faces well past the target due to the increased 70+ degrees of rotation in his new swing with Sean Foley. If you want to analyze your own swing mechanics and compare them to elite patterns, the AI swing analyzer can reveal exactly how your body rotation stacks up.
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The other critical move Foley is having Tiger perform is sliding his hips laterally toward the target to move past NJA (neutral joint alignment) at impact, where forces on the lead hip are enormous.
Putting the hip past neutral joint alignment and then pivoting aggressively on that hip tends to lead to long term degenerative wear on the cartilage of the hip and is why so many golfers of the 70’s era ended up with hip replacements later in life. The labrum of the lead hip also is placed into extra stress from this new impact position.
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