Inside a Tiger Woods Range Session | Undercover Lessons | Golf Digest

I feel like anti-chunk pressure. Say again? I have anti-chunk pressure. You can get away with hitting them a little thin. You just got to rotate a little bit more. Yeah, exactly. Look at that. Tucked myself into it. Already hitting the high one? Well, decided to hit a full one. Already warm. Nice. A little wind off the right. You get some draws. Alright. One solid one. Go through a normal warm-up here. Go to the eight? Eight iron. Yeah. Nice. Body looks pretty good. Not quite for me. That's a good sign. A draw? Cut and draw feel good. Draw's nice and high. You're just showing off. It's a little intimidating to do this after you win your 82nd time. Look like you're moving well. Yeah, so I got both. Yeah. And high, too. Means you got some speed. That's nice, dude. Looks like it's working right. Got the yanks. Think I'm going to switch. What do you got? Going up to six already. That's aggressive. I only have so many balls. Nice. Nice and cleared on all those. No flippy. Alright, I'll send one up. Yeah. Put one down. Those look perfect. Good day to test. Good day today. Kind of got everything. That's the fear shot. You got some speed today. Is that six iron? Four. My normal warm up. Yeah, yeah. Which is why your grooves always wear out on the Correct. Evens. Yeah, man. What are you You feeling anything different or the same from Japan? Pretty much. I'm not clearing as well as I did in Japan. Yeah. Well, you haven't hit too many since then, but swing wise it looks Definitely hit it straight. Yeah, yeah. It looks nice and I think a neutral position. I think this lie is slightly downhill. I know that's what I was feeling. I had to move it back a little bit. Kind of want you to hit the downhill low draw. Exactly. I played that one up to kind of get normal height. Yeah. All right. Let's see if we got a draw on us. All right. Trying. Yeah, it's coming. I'm not sure for it. Yeah. At least it's not going the opposite way. Correct. Moving the first time. Try to get a little bit more across the line there. Yeah. Get that draw going. Yeah. It never fails to. I always notice whenever you're going to hit a draw, you always drop the foot. No, I'll drop the foot, but then also open the face just a tiny bit. You got to start right. It's like one degree to the right every time and then same with a fade. You go opposite. Slightly close. Start left. It's unbelievable how you do that every time. You don't even really seem to think about it much. You just kind of do it. Well, the draw needs to start over there, so the face got to be open. Yeah. Continue to start left. The face needs to be closed. It just seems like so many guys today kind of try to do it more with path. Like keep everything square and then kind of do it with path versus. Yeah, I do a little bit of it with path. Sure. But yours is, you know, you're helping it a little bit. Almost making sure it goes that direction and not a double cross. Alright, let's see if I can hit one flat. Yeah. I think you're cheating though. On the downhill lie, that shot's easy. Alright, I'll hit one up then. You got to go. If you're going to impress me in these guys, you got to go high off that lie. Okay. How's that? That was more like it. Brave man. I brought the 4-iron out. I probably should have brought the hybrid thing. The gapper. What 5-wood should we hit? You got 5-wood? I got 5-wood. Actually, I'll hit this 3-wood since I love this thing so much. How many times you hit that in Japan? Not many. I didn't feel like they used it much. Driver and 3-wood. Yeah. It wasn't really a 5-wood course. It was more of a driver course. Yeah. Kind of had to just shape drivers versus getting 5-wood into play. Except, of course, on 18. I guess you did use it some critical times. 5-wood, 5-wood, right? That was 5-wood, 5-wood. Yeah. It was just one of those weeks where it was just like more of a driver and a 3-wood course. Yeah. The bunkers were kind of all in the right spots there. Nice, man. Afraid to hit 3-wood off the downhill side, he'll lie. I'm just going to try to stay at least one full club ahead of you. So let me know when you switch to 3-wood and I'll go to driver. I just tried that new 3-wood. Oh, really? Yeah. The blue version. How similar or not similar? It's a little bit deeper face. You see it? It's this one here. This is the max, yeah. This one I hit so much further. That's your gamer? Yeah. It's just shallower. Yeah. Well, the max is that It's a deeper face. Yeah, exactly. It's like this M6, you know. So, in terms of the head shape. It's amazing how much higher that goes when you tee it up a little bit. Carrying. We're also hitting. Oh, there's the high spinning one. Switch to driver soon. So it's not a huge difference between your landing zone and mine. Yeah, my 3-wood was about 270, 280. Yeah. It's crazy though to think that if you wanted though you could try to set one up with a longer shaft. You know what kind of most guys on tour have and a little stronger and probably could carry a 290 if you wanted. That's nice. It's a little curve. Amazing. Always amazed me how well you can curve the 3-wood. It got more loft. Yeah, even versus the driver. That's your shot, baby. Hit down on it. I think that was zero. Is that your own driver or is that mine? Terrible golf swing. It's crazy. I always have to line up the driver. Where'd you go the first time? Aimed too far left. One ball up. That's why I hit over the top of 9. Yeah. That was like that drive on it. You seemed like you had to hit that shot every day, right? On 9. Because the wind never really mattered. It wasn't going far but I could hit it high. Yeah. When you needed it to kind of land soft to hold that fairway because guys were just all going into the right trees and a little bit of a mess. You're staying behind it nice. launching it that way but it doesn't go that far. Right. Stay in the air and turn over. Just talking about Japan for you know, the driver. I mean, he did have to hit it a lot there. You know, and there was a few scary kind of tee shots like on 4. Sort of an awkward what was the tee shot? Were you hitting? I assume you were hitting fade. I started over the water. Out in the water. Right. Slicing it. I mean, show me one of those. What was like the you know, the look of that tee shot? That? Okay. That's why I was like 40 yards behind. 50 yards behind Rory. Right. You were just making sure you hit a fade into play. Yeah. I just didn't want to hit in the water. Where were you having in from there? Like 3-iron? 3-iron, 4-iron. I was so far behind the guys. Yeah. Just keep out of the water, make par, and move on. Were some of the guys trying to draw it around that tree that was kind of in the middle of the fairway? Yeah. I went left of the tree with a cut. Okay. But other guys went kind of right of the tree with a draw or at it? If you go to the top of the tree and hit a straight ball, you can get another 40 out of it. Okay. Yeah. That's aggressive. I was hitting that one right there. Yeah. Not far, but short, straight. Yeah. My 3 would go further than that. Were you hitting that anywhere else out there on that course or was that pretty much the only one? I had to hit it on that par 5. The 7th or whatever? Yeah. 6 hole. 6, right, after the par 3. And then I hit that little shot on 8. Same thing. Oh, yeah. Because the hole kind of went that way. You were hitting driver off 8? I hit a couple times. Oh, wow. I thought you just hit 3 wood. That little kind of spinny thing. Yeah, the get and play ball. Well, it's important to have that. Turn one over here. Okay. Awesome. It's amazing how much further that ball goes. I know. My little slicer, it goes so short, but I can control it. Yeah. Well, especially against this wind. I mean, you slice it up against the wind, which is, you know, you're going to cost yourself 10 yards and kind of riding it otherwise. Because I end up hitting down on it so much. Oh, that's beautiful. Why don't we go with one last good stock one. Kind of to finish. Bombs away. You want to keep hitting draw since you're feeling draw today? I can hit a draw. Yeah. Why don't we go one high bomb draw. One go. Kind of step on it. Oh, yeah. Saw that right foot go back. I knew it was going to be big. I thought so, yeah. Yeah. That was good. Thanks for making me look bad.