Tiger Woods Explains His Viral 'No Divots' Video | TaylorMade Golf

Team TaylorMade's Tiger Woods had a video go viral earlier this year with Scottie Scheffler talk about how when he's striping it, he doesn't take a divot. And he was serious, he was so wide on the take away and wide on the followthrough that when he was picking it clean, he doesn't take a divot. #shorts

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[barbedfinger]

Me and Tiger are alike we both can't take divots. There's just a slight difference in our ball flights though, mine is just rolling on the ground.

[TheDrDoc]

I swear Scottie's look at Tiger after Tiger says "it just is what it is.." is the look of "damn, I will never be as good as you." LOL

[redsharpiemarker]

tigers explaining a very important concept in the golf swing. we are taught to have turf interaction purely bc it reduces the chance of a poor strike. coming into the ball with a descending blow and taking a divot after the ball ensures that you hit the ball first before anything else. therefore it’s sort of a preventative measure in the case you make a bad swing. however it’s very possible to make an iron bottom out at the very point of impact with a true 0 degree attack angle and make a perfect strike without any divot whatsoever at the same groove height as the descending swing. it’s just that the margin for error is much smaller bc if the swing arc isn’t perfect, you introduce the possibility of getting turf between the ball, hitting it thin, etc.. that’s why when tiger says he doesn’t need to take divots, it’s bc he’s swinging so precisely that the club is bottoming out right at the ball and doesn’t need to take that ‘precaution.’ by doing so, he is maximizing the benefits of a zeroed swing path. assuming both shots are struck cleanly, there is nothing about a descending blow that is advantageous to a zeroed strike. just based on physics, the flatter path creates for more compression, speed and spin control.

[Grayback]

Thanks for that actually was serious when he was talking to Scotty. Knowing Tigers humor I thought he was just entertaining himself that day.

[Jade-bzsg]

Scotty be even more confused after this dropped

[GP-ttte]

The look on Scotty's face is the best part lol.

[pobodysnerfect]

Thank you all for the follow up. Tiger looks cool asf here

[theguitar]

Scotty wasn’t agog with worship. He was agog with “You think I’m gonna buy that no-explanation explanation just because you’re Tiger Woods?”

[homerovaldez]

Pure artist, pure perfection at his peak

[Gumballa]

Love the feel of a well struck high compression draw. It‘s a beautiful shot and barely leaves a mark on the fairway :) What’s not to like about that

[brentwoods]

Plenty of great players are just barely “scrapers” of the ground, especially with middle and long irons. Once watched Adam Scott on the range hitting middle and long irons and it was eye opening. He wasn’t taking pork chops, or even bacon strips. Just hardly bruising the grass. And if you watch any LPGA golf, some of them pick it clean and still compress the ball nicely. Not coincidently, most of them draw the ball. About the worst thing anyone can say to a bogey golfer is “you have to hit down on the ball and take a divot to compress the ball.” Because they will be so steep, chopping wood, hitting nothing but glancing blows.

In the men’s game, the draw as a go to shot has definitely been replaced by faders. Some that move it so much left to right, it almost can’t even be classified a fade. So you’re not gonna see the polite scrapers of the ground much any more. Sort of a lost art.

[tchombre]

It's so funny how the internet thought Tiger was punking Scottie lmao

[jamesratcliffe]

Darren Clarke backs this up with his story about the turf not having a mark on it after Tiger was next to him on the range back in the day

[AnonymousDub]

The reason is that’s optimum compression. It’s as close to but without hitting a thin, every amateur knows when you flush one it feels great. It’s picking the ball, the attack angle is 0 throughout the plane. Instead of maybe 0 and then down to create spin post impact.

[gerardmagill]

I love how Scottie is just blown away by the fact it’s nothing to tiger 😂😂😂

[williamlackey]

Not entirely sure but I think this means his swing is damn near perfect.

[HighSpinSwingSpeed]

I love everything about Tiger except for that fact he is a Raiders fan.

[darkspd]

You know this guy's on another level, when a two-time Masters winner is confused on how you play golf

[jayflaggs]

When I'm putting I don't take divots either

[matthewoberton]

Tiger "Why do you need to take a divot?" 😎