Surge's Prescription For Tiger Woods

I would like to see on your videos more action and less talk.  I get confused when you start talking and mention too much about what not to do, etc. etc. etc. instead of what and how you do the vertical swing. I have watched video after video and all I hear just confuses me.  Not enough action to show the vertical swing. Do it over and over, slow and slower and leave out all the negative comments that are made.  Just positive remarks about how to obtain the vertical swing.  Less talk.

Collin,

Even though Tiger has a powerful swing he has not ranked among the longest hitters on tour and certainly not among the most accurate off the tee over the last 4 years. When you look at the steady decline of his game from year to year you reach the inescapable conclusion that his body (and swing) are failing him.

On the other hand, when you look at DJ's combination of distance AND accuracy (10th in driving distance/7th in GIR in 2010) I think one could rightfully assume that Tiger could achieve the same kind of results... without the pain. He is a gifted athlete, no doubt, but if he is too beat up to play over the course of a season, the conversation shouldn't be about whether he can hit it as far with the Surge Swing or not, even though I am certain he could. It should be about what he needs to do to win tournaments again, IMHO. What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over again and again and expecting different results. The sad truth is that he is not likely to return to anywhere near his former level of excellence by swinging the way he has always done.

And good luck to you in shooting your age--what a great goal!

Tom Jans

Back when I was looking around back in the beginning of the year over at that other site the pro there told everyone he could hit the fairway 70% of the time off the tee without even practicing. I asked him if he was that good why he was there pedaling  20.00 videos and not out on tour playing never got a answer.

Joe, Yes, it is a great advert!

Here's a good link, that should help to clear thing up a bit. Maybe.

http://www.zennioptical.com/

Just kidding, but actually these lessons really should help.
http://swingsurgeon.com/DailyV...

I've been catching up on the blogs from the last few days. Just the mention of the words Tiger Woods gets alot of folks fired up either for or against. Keeping in mind that this was not about whether we "like" the guy or not but about his golf swing. I would have to say I fully agree with Surge that his swing has been jacked up by wrong guidance over the last few years. He has so much natural ability and athletic skill that he was able to over come it all with pure talent and determination. I fully agree with Steves comment earlier that what is missed most by serious fans of golf isthe way he could will the ball into the hole and had a phycological advantage over his apponents. I too miss those gifts. Though I hope he wins again, his best is behind him. Would love to see him come around enough to give the golf world another serious run once more. And I too have plenty of role models from another "good book" as far as morales. I still marvel at what he gave us in the form of amazing golf and yes we have no clue how we would hold up in his shoes these past 15 years. It's easy to judge from the 'peanut gallery', but give me $100.000,000.00 per year and I may not survive the opportunies, good and bad for 1 year.
Just being honest. So I choose to wish him well and hope for his recovery and goog health.

Honey I am not sure what to tell you. Are straight right, Slicing, how long is your driver ?
Could be a number of things give us more info.

 Click on Surge's Shop at the top of the page. Then purchase the Foundations Manual and the videos, and you will have everything you want, except for a one-on-one lesson. For that you will have to go to SC.

love watching your swing every day, it really helps remind us how effortless a golf swing can be. It would be nice if for a few days we saw you from directly behind the ball hitting forward into the net as well.  Could you do that? Thanks for all the tips that have dropped my handicap
4 strokes and the lack of back trouble as well

IMHO golf does not need Tiger Woods. The PGA tour will obviously benefit and also all the players on it since TW is a big draw. The game is a lot bigger than any one person. In spite of all the good things that TW has done I still have a hard time warming up to his temper tantrums, cursing, and his spitting on the golf course which I consider to be the barometer of his disdain for the game and his fellow competitors. How would you like to play out of one of those lugies? Micheal Jordan is a gifted athlete who was allowed to get away with behaviour
on the court that no one else could. Neither of these people are admirable from a moral standpoint, but as pointed out by another surgite how many of us could resist the temptations that these two have encountered? Probably not many.

I really don't care how he does it.  I just would like to see him get back to playing the game as he once did.  It pains me to see natural talent such as Tiger has riding the roller coaster.  Whether you like him or hate him, there is no denying that Tiger is the single player that has done more to bring excitement and interest to the game than any anyone else who has picked up a club.

 

Not sure this is the best place to post this comment since it is not a direct reply to previous post.  I tried to start a new thread but for some reason I keep getting an error message.  Anyway, I wanted to share a  few quick comments on videotaping your swing that might be useful to those who have not yet tried filming their Surge Swing:  A
recent Golf Digest article says: Most amateur golfers are not emotionally
prepared to see what they look like when they play golf..." The considerable truth of
that aside, I taped my Surge swing recently and was absolutely amazed at what I
saw.  In my mind I thought I was doing the Surge Swing pretty well. 
In fact, I was not, and was quickly able to itemize five or six crucial
problems which enabled me to approach the next practice session with some
specific goals. My swing has improved in a very short time because of this
experience, and I recommend videotaping for all of you who have not yet done so.  I
used a Flip Ultra that Surge had mentioned last year.  Set it up on a
tripod and with a bit of tinkering was able to film myself pretty easily. This
objective eye really helps supplement the mind's eye, which I found to be a bit deceptive.

RandyF

Wow!  

Ah, King David, a man after God's own heart, according to the scriptures. Also a King who lusted after another man's wife, took her, impregnated her, then tried everything he could to cover it up. When he could not persuade the woman's husband to return home from battle and hopefully sleep with her so he would think the child was his, he decided to just send the man to the front line where he would surely be killed. Afterwards, he did the right thing and married the poor thing, which of course led to King Solomon. Another man who pleasured himself with everything imaginable under the sun, but found it all to be vanity, but that's another story.

PMG

Surge,  Can I comment that your picture of DJ above the ad for the golf schools shows hom overturning on the follow through with a locked left knee?  Is this a good advert for your swing teaching?

Your probably right. i guess that would be a good way to get your fairways hit off the tee stats up. LOL

I went to the range tonight and was hitting a lot of unintended draws tonight. I sat down and thought about it for a few minutes and got up and went through the swing in slow motion and noticed that the face of my clubs were a little closed into the mitt and up.
So i started letting my forearms rotate in the one piece takeaway into the mitt toe up then up the tree sort of like DJ and let the hands drop from the top. i hit about 70 shots doing this never hit a shot left the rest of the time. I ended with hitting 7 iron started paying attention to the distance I was hitting it I was carrying it 175 with about 5 yards of roll up a slight grade to 180 was not swinging anywhere close to a 100%. i guess I had not been rotating the forearms enough or at all. I hit the slot pretty easy every time. I am going back Thursday after work and work on this some more to see if this a legit fix are not.
You know how it goes we think we find the holy grail in golf then it does not work the next time out. LOL       

SurgeFor sure Tiger and Couples and many many others would benefit from the vertical swing. I love your instructional videos and it has made a massivedifference for me. The free daily videos are great tips and reminders too.The instructor that I used to go to a long time ago wanted meflat, flatter, flattest. I had broke my L3, L4, L5 vertebrae in an auto accident 30years ago. They are compression fractures. I have much scar tissue and bone spurs.X-rays of it are a real mess. I have had additional surgery and steroidinjections.The around or rotational swing was killing my back and truthfully I quit golf ifthat is all I can do. I gave up due to pain. The great news is that I have none ofthose problems with the vertical swing.I had golfed only a few times in 8 years before I found your instructionalvideos. The promise of pain free gold is why I tried it. I have problems most peopledon’t have but I am pretty flexible and a strong swinger.So far so good with the vertical swing. I am not having the pain beyond normalmuscular pain and I am coming up on 55 years old. I am having no structural pain.I even have a left knee (I am right handed) that has cartilage damage but I haveno pain in it with the vertical swing.  Last weekend I took my 8 yr old daughter to a girls birthday party. The party was at the movie theater. All those little girls piled in to see "A Dolphin Tale", about a dolphinthat had his tail surgically removed as a result of entanglement with a crab trap and rope.The dolphin recovered and learned to swim by wiggling his stump from side to side.The marine doctors noticed in the dolphins X-rays that the constant side to side action was causing her spinal cord and nerves to become very inflamed. It was killing the dolphin.They faced putting him down instead of her suffering. Dolphins are supposed tomove their tail up and down (or vertical). They eventually got a VA hospital prosthetic doctorto come up with and fit the dolphin with a prosthetic tail. The dolphin re-learned to swim usinga natural up and down tail motion and that natural motion saved the animal’s life.How is that story for an analogy? I feel the same way with my old golf swing. The side to side or rotationalmovement and reverse C was killing me with sciatic nerve damage. I had to quit golf. The Surge Trahan vertical swing has allowed me to play again and pain free. I had been aslow as a 4 handicap with my old swing but I had long recovery time betweenpractices and playing. I am nowhere near a 4 right now but about a 12 and droppingfast. I am spending time with the short game as that is where my score suffers the most now.It will come back.Thank you so much for the swing instruction series and Daily Videos.I purchased the newer situational shots and working the ball videos and I am reallyexcited about golf again.

Hey Surge,

I have a suggestion for your opening line...How about?---"Surge here, Home on the Range".

What do you think?

Bob Woods

Sorry about your boy friend, but he sounds like a real jerk. He should be helping you to hit the tours and be your caddie. If he is that self absorbed, you are probably better off without him,

I happen to be single at the moment and would love to caddie for a nice young lady. We can talk marriage and children at a later date. We'll have to adopt though, I'm past the fathering stage.

On a more serious note, I wish you the best of luck as you strive to advance in this wonderful game we call golf.

PMG

Surge Nation

Hello everyone.  I have missed you folks so very much over the last 4 months.  I just wanted to let you know that this old cowboy is still alive and kicking.  Got thrown off my horse, but I am back in the saddle again.  Life goes right on.  Both of the boys are doing fine and are safe and sound.

I should be able to start getting back on line some now, and look forward to spending some evenings chatting with you all and catching up on all that is going on with you.

As always, you folks are all in my prayers.

I am actually going to play a round in the morning.  Look forward to posting my first after action report in a long time.

Talk to you all soon.

Keeping it vertical, and missing you all, in Oklahoma,
Dick

I'VE HEARD OF ALL KINDS OF REASONS TIGER WOODS IS PLAYING BAD. HIS BIG PROBLEM IS VERY SIMPLY THAT TIGER LIFTS HIS BODY A NANO-SECOND BEFORE CONTACT AND THAT OF COURSE LIFTS THE CLUB JUST A SMIGEON AND HE HITS TO THE FAR RIGHT OR FAR LEFT. TELL HIM THAT JULIAN GRACE SPOTTED THIS ERROR AND WANTS TIGER TO ADJUST. THAT'S HIS ONLY PROBLEM.  

If thats the best you can come up with, then I would'nt bother commenting if I were you. Can't you think of something positive or nice to say, or is that just the way you are???

Hi Alan
My take on Wodds and I should say Mister Woods is that golf oses
a lot of gratitude in my opinion golf was loosing is bright collors
and needed someone to take it too the next level, I think it is easy
to judge, forgetting all the pleasures he brought to the game
 to inspire so many young kids by itself would do it for me, but he
also made an old guy like me looking for answers. I wish he would
make a comeback but what he as given to golf in the past ten years
is what most professionels would be glad to achieve in their lifetime.
Just my humble opininon thank's for letting me share.
And thank you Don for all you bring to us.
I wonder if great people make good golfers or golfing
make great people for me what I like to hear on the course
is (I enjoyed Myself And woud to do it again)

Ron from Qc. Canada 

Show them the money. In other words, buy some of the actual lesson materials. Here.
https://swingsurgeon.com/Surge...

To really put ourselves in our shoes, we'd need to go back and live it from childhood, have the Talent and circumstances at 12 years old then developed into a young million air and then day after day live in a world that is unreal to most of us. Day after day and then year after year constantly have the money, praise, admiration, adultion, fan worship, anything and everything anytime and all the time.
Drive the same truck? Play the same golf course. You would have never sat in that ol truck or played that golf course. King David couldn't resist. Then travel all over the world and live a life the word no you can't is a rare occurrence. Yes take present world and our personal backgrounds and maybe, just maybe some of us could be the same good person. As I said we have no clue really. Am I saying that what he allowed to happen in his appearantly perfect life is excusable? No.
I do agree that in most cases power corrupts(to one degree or another) and absolute power disrupts absolutely.
Fortunately (or not) we will never have to make those choices and never have to answer those challenges. Again, I personally am pulling for him to have a turn around happier ending to one he'll of a ride.

Mr T

I am in no way good enough to play any tours and have no intention in doing so.
As far as marriage I don't know about all that besides you are probably old enough to be my grandad and that would be cradle robbing on your part. LOL
 

So lifting a nano-second early is what's tearing the ligaments of his knee apart?

I agree... Tiger needs the Surge for a swing coach!  

Steve
I hope this is what has been missing in my swing. I know up until tonight my hands at hip high the head of the club was to low at that point now letting the forearms rotate on the way back tonight the head of the club was at hip high with the hands and on the toe line before I bet I was getting the club to far inside before it went up.

I have been studying DJ'S swing through the bag for a long time trying to figure out what he was doing with his arms at the start of the BUS and it is rotating the forearms. I hope this takes don't really care if I am hitting 7 iron from 160 or 175 but this was easy distance and I will not complain about getting extra distance and every shot I hit just clicked of the club face . We will see how it goes Thursday. 

Robert, I  suppose we would have to assume trying to get back down in the next nano-second is what ruptured his achilles tendon too or perhaps it was all the bungie jumping?

My words run together without spaces in some places. That is not how I typed it. It came out that way when I posted. There is something going on witht the Reply feature in Disqus.

Steve

A 8 handicap will not get you on any tour. For that matter it would not get you in any USGA events,

I just play for fun and a little money in skins games generally 50.00 a head skin games with the guys and yes they make me play the same tees as them but that's ok I win some and lose some. I am here just trying to get better at the PPGS..  

Dick,

What a pleasant surprise. Thought I'd take a final look at the blog before hitting the sack, low and behold, I see your post. I will not pressure you with the whys and wherefores of your absence, but I am glad to see you back. I hope that all is well with you and yours, and with that I say,  Good Night Dick.

I am not Don but I would check ball position to see if it is to far back or you maybe teeing it to low.

Why is it that everybody is so concerned with Tiger Wood's golf swing?  He is a loser. and the past two years of PGA statistics prove that statement.  Tiger's problem is his moral compass.  It need massive recalibration, not his golf swing.  Who really cares?  If you do, you need some therapy.

Hi Dick, Glad to see you are back with us and hope you are keepig well. I don't post much, but read the blog every day and have missed your your quirky sense of humour as it always seemed to bring a light relief to the blogs and gave me an excuse to have a snack.
PMG. Ollie

Dick

Good to here from you hope you can get back soon it sure has been quite around here without you.

On my "smart" phone that corrects and picks words I don't want. Oops. Meant 'currupts absolutely' in my post above. Also we,d need to put ourselves in HIS shoes from childhood.