Tiger 2 majors this year

Here's my two cents for tiger's two majors. Just a short few months ago, sports pundits were predicting the Tiger's rein as dead. They believed with his missed cut at the US Open, he would shrivel up and turn from the fierce golf predator that his name is synonymous with to an indoor cat with his claws removed. How wrong can we be? Very wrong. Tiger over the past week dominated the PGA championship, as a follow up to his dominance in the British Open (where he only used his driver once i might add).

When will Tiger's claws get dull? I have no idea. Its probably no time soon. Nicklaus is still the greatest, but Tiger is the growing legend, and he's just going to continue to grow until we see him dominating on the Seniors Tour in 2035 or something.

I don't think anyone would have predicted he'd win the last two major's of the year after his showing at the US Open. But its history now, you can't take that back.

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Little Red Book

I got the "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime of Golf" out from the library, and have begun to read it. I'm about 10 pages into it, and all of it so far is about gripping the club, and putting practice. I like it so far. Its a very ground up approach. A classic golf instruction book. This morning while I was at the gym, riding the stationary bike and reading this book, i realized that what this book was starting out with were things that just hadn't occurred to me to put much thought into. But now that I see it on paper, i realize that i'm silly for not starting with these fundamentals.

I've also come to realize that I should just buy this book. I've got a week at the beach coming up, where I'll at least be golfing once. I'm going to read the whole book through. After that though if i still like all of it, i'm going to buy it, and only focus on one section of it at a time, with things i want to do with my game. Also, this should be a task i do in the order of the book.

In the first three pages of the book, i already had some ideas that I think will really improve my consistancy.

Anyways thats all, go pick this up or go to the library and take a read.

UPDATE: I've tried to start gripping the club with a more correct grip (i.e. more with the fingers than with palms) and while the grip itself doesn't quite feel so natural right now, the swing feels 10 times more natural. I shall continue this, i think it will help me a lot.

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