Could be why he might make some "noise" this year. Put some weight back on and from what I've heard has a little fire again.

I hope so man . . . he's my favorite dude out there.

You only had to hear his speech when he won the Open championship in 2001... astonishingly eloquent, honest, sincere and gracious... i never liked him until i heard that speech (to be honest never really paid much attention to him)... but that speach showed that he was a real top class human being and the fact that he held the claret jug at the time showed that he was a top class player.

I think there's a lot of stuff going on in that dude's head.

Plus gotta love a dude for coming back home . . . Fat rules.

I was equally impressed and agree with you wholeheartedly.:salut:

The man is very, very 'umble.:)

Double D’s swing problems are symptomatic of golf swings from which extraordinary effort builds a fragile web of relationships of compensations.

Almost all of the professional and amateur Golfers have little knowledge of Swing Mechanics. But, we infallibly confuse Years and Experience and consider Years of Experience equivalent to Knowledge. A pro with 30 years experience and trophies on his shelf is invariably hailed as Grand Master of Golf Knowledge but the reality is seldom as enchanting. They mostly repeat whaever they learn in their first year, 30 times. Without understanding the geometry and physics of the golf stroke as Homer discovered, more problems lead to more confusion and fewer solutions.

But Swing Mechanics is not Golf. Golf is a game. Swing Mechanics is the study of the relationships that produce impact alignments which makes ball behavior controllable.

David’s’ problem is in his head. I don’t think his swing mechanics have changed much. At the PGA level, desire and confidence is 99%. His loss of the first led to his lack of the second. :)

What's that saying from some movie my wife often quotes? "it's not about the Got, it's about the Get"

My Take
 

When you ask yourself after hoisting the Claret Jug "Is this all there is?" you have a personal crisis on your hands.

Out of Georgia Tech DD was a fearless competitor...ruthless even. My guess is that he read something...heard something...that got him thinking about the "ultimate concerns" compared to which golf is relegated to a non-issue of inconsequential irrelevance! Tough to get fired up when you are the pensive, brooding type. Once he intergrates his life and finds a workable slot for tour golf I think he will surge back. Of course, he may turn to the solitude of snowboarding and writing in his journal.


DISCLAIMER! The above statements do not neccessarily represent the thoughts and ideas of someone who actually knows!

It is possible, some part of him, no matter how small, wanted to see if he could enjoy life while shooting 85. His problems with vertigo certainly didn't help anything and he said once he had the health problems (and back problems) he started to make compensations and pretty soon could no longer find the golf swing that brought him all the glory.

At his prime, I think DD had one of the best swings in the history of the game, not a swing built on power and compensations. It isn't as though he's this marvelous compensator now when he doesn't have it.

I agree, Duval had a marvelous swing. At one time he was the longest, straightest driver of the golf ball in professional golf. I don't think you get to that level of enlightenment with a golf swing built on compensations. His swing satisfied all of the imperatives and the essentials. So, I really do not understand the lack of respect for his swing.

Thank you glcoach!!!

If there's compensations in DD's move. . . somebody please describe them to me and my man glcoach.

Let's talk about this . . .