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I'm going to go with peripheral neuropathy issues because his spine is made of spare parts. He can't feel it without the death grip. Or, he doesn't believe that control is an illusion. ;)
You can see him moving his hands prior to the swing, the way that the fingers move don’t seem like he’s death gripping the thing. Maybe it’s a feeling and not that he’s gripping it super tight.
I wonder if what Tiger is saying might be taken the wrong way. I think there's a difference between cinching the grip down with the fingers and gripping it as hard as you can with your hands and forearms. I can't believe that Tiger's swing is the product of death-gripping the club. It looks (looked?) way too supple.
For me if I do that... cue the big Block to the right. Tight hands are the Anti-Draw feeling for me
I suppose if you can relax the wrist enough when gripping tight it makes little difference, maybe a little tweek here and there is also a good thing.
I've always had a lot of tension in my arms in my swing, which has always problematic. I've frequently had instructors say to keep a firm grip while keeping the arms soft. To this day I have no idea how to do both at the same time. Once my hands tighten on the club, so do my arms. My best swings seem to be when everything is soft and loose (and as Chuck states, in the transition and through impact the hands naturally tighten up). How do you reconcile these two things that seem to be at odds with each other?
I’m sure his idea of gripping it tightly is VERY different than when I grip it tightly, haha
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