I haven’t posted anything recently because I’ve been at work on the “model for everyone.”

Meaning, I am working on the setup that allows one to swing with whichever arm they feel dominant, or both, for those who don’t feel they are using one arm over the other.

I feel this model exists simply because both of our arms are attached to the shoulders, and if one shoulder goes up or down (with a fixed rotation point, C7, remaining stable), then the other must do the opposite.

There must therefore be a setup that allows for the swing with either or no bias in feeling.  I’m on it, and should be back to posting soon.

As for the title subject, I don’t follow golf news the way I used to, because my swing work isn’t really something that makes staying up to date on tour news a must-thing – I used to watch anything and everything golf back in the day, but I find anything online or television regarding the swinging of a golf club to be unwatchable.

So, it was news to me when I read a few days ago of yet another – 6th – back surgery for Tiger Woods (courtesy of PGATour.com:

I just shook my head, because it’s like watching someone slip on a wet floor and completely wreck himself, only to recover, enter the same room and slip yet again on the still-wet floor.

Some people just don’t learn – if I kept having to have back surgery because of damage caused by the way I swung a golf club, I’d have figured out by the 6th surgery that the way I was doing it wasn’t the way to do it.

And mind you – you can still play golf and swing with a bad back – I hurt my back reaching for my mug of beer one night back in 2016 (I have scoliosis, so even a natural movement can at times do things to my back), and yet, this was me just a couple of days later, hitting 300 yard drives, at 46 years of age, when I could barely bend over to tie my shoelaces or tee the ball up:

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… because, you don’t swing with the lower back.  You swing with the hips and legs, so my lower back, although still very tender, had no problems with my swing action.

To be honest however, having injured myself in sports, I would have stopped swinging in a way that caused back pain long before I would have had to endure the first surgery.

I broke my wrist once on a slam-dunk attempt with both hands from a running jump – held onto the rim a split-second too long and came down horizontally, breaking my fall (and my wrist) with my left arm.

I’ll tell you all, it was years before I attempted the same type of slam dunk again, and I did it properly – it was far better to receive a technical foul for hanging onto the rim until my feet were again beneath me, than to repeat such a mistake.

You learn from mistakes, especially painful ones.

But not always, it seems.

Every.single.surgery that TW has endured has been necessitated by the way he swings the golf club – with his lower back rather than with the hips and legs.

You don’t do anything with your lower back, including lifting heavy objects:

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… and you surely don’t perform a shoulder turn by wringing your lower back like wet dish rag.

It’s basic Kinesiology.

And yet, here we are, Tiger Woods can barely play anymore (from TheMirror.com’s Joshua Lee):

Tiger Woods has announced he will not return to the PGA Tour to compete at the Hero World Challenge next month, as his battle with injury continues...

… It is yet another knockback for Woods, who is continuing to play part-time golf on the PGA Tour due to a whole host of fitness problems. The 48-year-old has competed in all four major championships this season, as well as the Genesis Invitational in February where he was forced to withdraw in the second round due to illness.

On the major stage, Woods has played 72 holes just once – coming at the Masters – having missed the cut at the PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and most recently The Open Championship. The latter saw a struggling Woods battle against the elements on the Scottish coast, failing to make it to the weekend at Royal Troon.

I think we’re seeing the end of Tiger Woods playing any golf whatsoever, when you take into account the state of his back as well as the damage to his right leg and foot from that car accident nearly four years ago.

It’s a shame, because if he’d been taught a proper golf swing in his childhood, he’d have obliterated every golf record one could think of, but he’ll end his career 3 majors short of a fellow who spent more time fishing than practicing or playing golf:

“Fishing Is A Low-Impact Sport…”

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What was Jack’s secret?

None other than a functional and very good Classic Golf Swing model that he rarely had to tinker with from 10 years old to his retirement.