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june 2019 | golfdigest.com 63L et’s start with
an important point: Tiger Woods
might be the best iron player of all
time. When you set the bar that
high, anything less than peak per-
formance, i.e., hitting shots like the
mere mortals on either side of you
on a PGA Tour range, can seem like
a comedown. ▶ Tiger’s ball-striking
isn’t as good as it was when he was
world No. 1 for 683 weeks, but we
might not see anybody hit it like
that again for 50 years. Still, Tiger’s
historic willingness to change any-
thing if he thought it could make
him better is still serving him well.
I can’t think of another world-class
player willing to make so many
big changes so many times. And
that openness is what keeps him
out there working and improving
when he has nothing left to prove.
▶ So where does Tiger stand after
generations of swing changes and
some serious damage to his body?
I call his iron swing a “buffet” of
the things he learned from Butch
Harmon, Hank Haney and Sean
Foley. There’s a lot of good, along
with a few things he could improve. ▶tiger’s iron game is (still)a work of art in progressby mike adams