Tiger @ 50: State-of-the-art tech reveals an important metric in Tiger's golf swing

Key Highlights

• Could Tiger's ongoing back injuries in later years have stemmed from his knee issues in his younger ones?Regardless, Tiger's golf swing changed a lot through the years, but it's how his lower body moved that in some ways tells the best story—and offers the rest of us a lessonWe can measure this with an app called SportsBox AI.
• SportsBox uses AI technology to measure different parts of our body during our golf swing.
• We plugged in a bunch of old swings of Tiger's, and using SportsBox's pelvis sway metric, we can see exactly how the engine of Tiger's swing evolved. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementEarly Dominance: Massive Side-to-Side PowerTiger's early dominance, winning three-consecutive U. S.
• Junior Amateurs followed by three-consecutive U. S.
• Amateur Championships, soon followed by his 1997 Masters win, was the product of what is perhaps the most powerful pound-for-pound swing of all time. Tiger's young swing was characterized by significant side-to-side movement:Sportsbox measuring his pelvis shifting more than an inch and a half away from the target halfway through his backswing. By the top of his backswing, his pelvis had moved back towards the target forward but was still almost an inch further away from the target than where it started, a subtle movement known as recentering. By impact, Tiger's pelvis had shifted more than six inches towards the target. By his follow-through, his pelvis had slid almost nine inches towards the target.