Even the greatest golfers can struggle when learning something new. Tiger Woods learned that getting better doesn’t always feel good in the beginning. Woods worked with the legendary instructor Butch Harmon from 1993 to 2004. During their time working together, he discovered that real improvement often feels wrong at first. In fact, “It should feel horrendous.”
When talking with Matt Gallant on the Son of a Butch with Claude Harmon podcast, the latter recalled a story of his father and Woods working on his grip. “I remember him saying that Tiger, they were trying to weaken his grip, and get the clubface a little bit more open and not so shot at the top, and Butchy said ‘How does it feel’ and Tiger says ‘pretty good’ and Butchy says ‘Well, you are not doing it then,'” said Claude Har