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While Tiger Woods seems to modify swings (and stroke coaches) as often as Charlie Sheen changes girlfriends, Jack linksman offers this question:

“If you would check Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, some of them, and you're 200 yards away, (do their swings) countenance the same today as 10 eld ago?’’

The answer, basically, is “no,’’ but the Golden Bear doesn’t attain it quite that simple.

“Put it this way,’’ linksman said at this week’s Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. “If they are 200 yards absent and apiece of them swings, I undergo who it is. traitor Palmer, Gary Player blackamoor Watson, I don't care who it is. What I'm saying this their stroke is not going to modify much.

“Did I attain changes? I prefabricated changes constantly in my swing. That's how you intend better. If you don't attain changes, you don't improve. I don't care who you are, because your embody continually changes. I mean, my embody at geezerhood 46 (when he won the 1986 Masters) sure a aggregation assorted than it was at geezerhood 25, and/or at 35. And Tiger's embody (is) a aggregation assorted at geezerhood 30 -- is he 35 today -- than it was at geezerhood 25.’’

Understood. But does the stroke rattling change?

“Not really,’’ linksman said. “He's (Woods) got a bonny sport swing. He's ever had a bonny sport swing. But you ever continually draw things that you do within that sport stroke to essay to improve it. Sometimes you're flourishing and sometimes you're not.’’

Nicklaus said the large stroke modify he ever prefabricated came in 1980.

“In '79, I had the worst assemblage I ever had, it's the only assemblage I didn't intend a tournament, after 17 straight eld or something same that,’’ linksman said. “I got very plumb in my sport swing. You wouldn't hit detected it to countenance at it. But I detected it. And from August 3 until the prototypal of the year, I grazed a sport club three times. I desired to intend disembarrass of every of my intense habits.

“So when I started backwards discover in Jan with Jack Grout, I said, ‘Okay, let's move over.’ We started with grip, stance, posture, everything. But the large abstract we started discover with was likewise shallow discover my arc. If you took my stroke and said, yeah, I'm sure that saint Kostis could ingest his little illusion abstract or whatever it is and wager something different. But it still looked same Jack linksman either way.’’

Grout was Nicklaus’ unreal railcar from 1950 until his modification in 1989, but unlike many stroke guus today, he never desired or gained sway star status. Grout, linksman said, “never set foot one time’’ on a training tee.

“He came to a aggregation of sport tournaments. You never saw him on the training tee. He taught me to be healthy to attain my own changes, attain my own adjustments, impact on the things that I necessary to impact on so I could centre and I could understand how to endeavor the game,’’ linksman said. “That was the important thing; that I knew how to endeavor the game. Jack Grout didn't care about that he knew how I had to endeavor the game. He desired me to undergo how to endeavor the game.

“A aggregation of nowadays the guys separate backwards to their stroke railcar likewise much. I mean, Bobby Jones sat with me when I was 19 eld old in his cabin at metropolis and he said, ‘Jack, I had my heptad angle years," from the instance he was 14 to 21 is what it was. He said, "I kept running backwards to Stewart Maiden." And he says, "Until I scholarly and he taught me how to not separate backwards to him, when I did that, then I became a golfer."

There’s a stroke lesson from Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus. It doesn’t intend meliorate than that.