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

Be a fly on the wall during a warm-up session with fifteen-time major champion Tiger Woods and his practice partner and longtime friend Rob McNamara. Listen in on their discussions, learn about Tiger’s swing, and watch him call the shots—high, low, draw, fade. An amazing display of skill from golf’s greatest shotmaker. Filmed in late 2019.

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Oh I feel like anti- chunk pressure say again said I have anti- chunk pressure you can get away with uh hitting them a little thin they just got to rotate a little bit more yeah exactly like that talk myself into It all Right oh already hitting the high one well decid to hit a full one already warm nice little wind off the right you get some draws all right one solid one go through a normal warmup 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 the draw is nice and high just showing off it’s a little intimidating to do this after you win your 8C time my C look like you’re moving well yeah so I got both yeah and high too means you got some speed

It’s nice dude all looks like it’s working right oh got the yks think I’m going to switch what 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 all right I’ll send one up y put one down those are

Perfect good day to test good day to test good day today you got kind of got everything oh that’s the fear [Laughter] shot you got some speed today is that six iron four oh my normal warm up yeah yeah which is why your grooves always wear out on the correct

Evens yeah man those are really good what do you you feeling anything different of the same from Japan pretty much uh 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 I neutral position this lies 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 it’s trying yeah it’s coming Che for it yeah at least it’s not going the opposite way correct that one moving the first time try to get a little bit more across the line there yeah get that draw going

Y it never fails too I always notice whenever you’re going to hit a draw you always drop drop the foot well drop the foot but then also open the face just a tiny bit got to start right it’s like one degree to the right every time and

Then same with a fade you go opposite I go 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 drawing you need to start over there so the face got to be open y

Cut you start left faing needs to be closed just seems like so many guys is 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 with path sure but

Yours is you know you’re helping it a little bit make almost making sure it goes that direction and not a double cross all right let’s see if we’re can to hit one flat yeah I think you’re cheating though on the downhill eye that shot’s easy all right I’ll hit one up then you

Got to go you’re going to impress me and these guys you got to go high off that line okay how’s that it was more like it Brave man I brought the four iron out I probably should have brought the hybrid thing should we hit what you got five wood I got five

Wood actually I’ll hit this three wood since I love this thing so much how many times you hit that in Japan not many I didn’t feel like he used it much driver and 3-wood yeah it wasn’t really a fivewood course it was more of a driver course yeah kind

Of had to just shape drivers versus getting five into play except of course on 18 I guess you did use it some critical times but fivewood fivewood right that was fivewood fivewood yeah but it was just one of those weeks where it was just like a more a driver and a 3-wood course

Yeah yeah the bunkers were kind of all in the right spots there nice man afraid to hit I just three what off the downhill side Hill ey just going to try to stay at least one full Club ahead of you so let me know when you switch to three-wood I’ll go to

Driver God I just tried that new 3-wood oh really yeah the version how similar or not similar it’s a little bit it’s a little bit deeper face so I you see uh this one here this is the max yeah like this one I have so much further at your gamer

Yeah it’s just shallower yeah well the 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 tea it up a little bit o carrying we’re also hidden oh there’s the high spinning

One switch to driver soon so it’s not a huge dis dis uh difference between your Landing Zone and mine yeah my I go 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 yeah Ian probably carry it 290 if you wanted that’s nice little curve amazing always amazing me how well you can curve the three wood sort of I got more Loft yeah even versus the Driver that’s your shot baby Get Down On It I think that was Zero ah that was awful is that your own driver or is that it’s mine yeah terrible go s it’s crazy I always have to line up my driver where did you go from first time a too far

Left one ball up that’s why hit over top of nine yeah that was like that drive on you seemed like you had to hit that that shot every day right yeah on nine the wind never really mattered but it wasn’t going far but I could hit

It high yeah well and you needed it to kind of land soft too to hold that Fairway cuz guys were just all going into the right trees and a little bit of a mess oh just staying behind watching 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 t- shots like on four sort of an awkward what was the

T-shot were you hitting I assume you’re hitting fade I starting over the water out in the water slicing it like I mean show me one of those what was like the you know the look of that t-shot that okay that’s why I was like 40 yards behind 50 yards behind Rory

Right you were just making sure you had a fade into play and yeah I just want didn’t want to hit in the water where were you having in from there like three iron four IR four IR I was so far behind the guys but yeah just kid 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 or 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 right if you go on top of the tree and hit a straight ball you can get another 40 out of it okay all right yeah well that’s aggressive so I was hitting that one right there yeah not far but short straight yeah my

Like my three would goes 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 part five the seventh or whatever yeah yeah or six hole six right

After the part three and then I hit that little shot on eight same thing oh yeah cuz the hole kind of went that way you were hitting driver off eight I hit a couple times oh wow I thought you just hit that little kind of spinny thing yeah the getting play

Ball it’s important to have that but turn one over here okay awesome it’s amazing how much further that ball goes I know my little slap slicer gets 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 cuz I end up hitting down on it so much oh that’s beautiful all right why don’t we go with one last good stock one kind of to finish just bombs

Away you want to keep hitting draw since you’re feeling draw today I can hit draw yeah 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 yeah that was good thanks for making me look Bad