1000 Contacts with the Club”: Tiger Woods shares fascinating details with his students…detailing his typical preparation for a tournament 👇
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. No one preaches this harder and actually lives it more than Tiger Woods, whose grind sessions became legendary during the peak of his career.
However, despite all the wear and tear on his body, the current version of Big Cat is unable to dig him out of the dirt like he used to. But he makes time to “make 1,000 contacts with the club” when he prepares for a tournament, he explained to college students during a recent Bridgestone shoot.
“One of the things I tell all of my guys, juniors, kids and pros, is when you’re preparing for a tournament, make sure you make 1,000 contacts with the club every day,” Woods said. That doesn’t just mean hitting balls on the range for hours, he continued, though that certainly helps, and Woods probably hit 1,000 balls on the range back in the day. But “contact” with the club can take many forms.
“That means you can hit 100 balls on the range,” he says. “300 chips photos. 600 strokes. Fine. Break it down however you like. That develops feel and sensation that never goes away.”
That explains why, despite health issues that have caused him to miss years at a time, Woods’ feel, particularly around the greens, is always there whenever he makes a comeback. He may not ever have the power or the speed that he once had, but his feel will never go away. Well, except for that time it seemingly did in 2015 before he got it back, which is something we don’t discuss enough.
In the full clip from the Bridgestone shoot, the 15-time major champion surprises a number of students from the Bridgestone collegiate development program on the range, even offering up a few free swing tips that regular people would pay astronomical amounts of money for. He also uses some of Tiger’s classic terminology, like the “clean up” and “spin up cut.