![]() SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. Listen along by clicking through here.PassMark DiskCheckup™ allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. The Tiger talk continues in depth on that episode of the Any Given Monday podcast. Woods didn’t hit enough tee shots during his 1996 season to register in the season-long stats race, but by the time 1997 was complete, Woods (294.8 yards) trailed only John Daly (302) in the driving distance ranking, and was a full seven yards clear of third place. Four or five other things just fall in place.’ I wasn’t about to take his speed away from him because I’ve never seen anything like it. Look at the one thing in the swing that can cause bad shots and fix that one thing. He said, ‘Never take away what a person does naturally, just make it better. I wasn’t going to take that away from him. “He goes, ‘No, I just tee it up, hit it as far as I can and I go find it.’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘Well there is an arrogant, S.O.B.’ But the more I got to know him, that was the way he played. Do you have a shot coming down the stretch when you absolutely have to drive the ball in the fairway? Because all great players have it.’ You’ve won junior amateur championships and stuff. “I said, Tiger, you’re a good amateur player. ![]() But his memory of the start is so indelible that he remembers the exact dates. Harmon has coached some of the greatest golfers of all-time, of which Woods is certainly one. Let’s pause on that distinction for just a moment. I said to one time, during the course of the first day. An interesting thing of what Sam is saying. “Then I saw this young, 16-, 17-year-old kid that whipped that body. News This Tiger Woods revelation left Scottie Scheffler speechless By: “The reason Ben Hogan’s body could unwind so fast was because he had a pretty flat swing and he had to get the club back in front of him. “When I first saw him, he had the fastest unwind of a body I’d ever seen since Ben Hogan,” Harmon said on the podcast. Harmon just happened to be among the first teachers to see that an edge could exist, and instead of shackling it with governors, he helped encourage Woods into maintaining it. To gain an edge that didn’t exist until Woods first proved there was an edge to gain. To strengthen various muscles that professionals of the 80s and 90s never thought about. To use every corner of his or her swing for speed. The modern player is taught to swing hard. Blah blah blah.’ How about these kids swinging now?” Particularly in the area which you’re saying, Michael. I really think when Tiger left Butch, I think the mistake he made was going to a teacher that did not know how to teach speed. So now you’ve got a man that’s trying to take that. “He had broken the shoelaces on his shoes. “Remember that, Butch?” Reeves continued. Wait, what? Woods’ swing pushed so much force into the space between his body and the ground that he tore right through his laced-up shoestrings?! That’s some Hulk-grade stuff. Butch knows, and I was there, he was so powerful with his feet, he popped the shoelaces in his shoes one time, hitting from the ground.” “Butch was the first one that saw this speed. Keep your head down.’ No one had ever seen Tiger speed. The mantra was ‘Slow it down and hit it easier, blah blah blah. “See, no one had ever seen speed like that before. “I was there at Lochinvar when Tiger came,” Reeves said of the Houston-area club where Harmon worked. That’s what Reeves recalls of the Woods who started working with Harmon at that time. What more than anything did Woods bring to the game? A commitment to swing speed. On a recent episode of the Any Given Monday podcast, Reeves and Harmon turned back the clock - with host Ryan French ( and longtime golf writer Michael Bamberger - to the mid-1990s when woods arrived on the scene. And he happens to be best pals with Butch Harmon, one of the greatest coaches of all time. His home clubs are Seminole, on the East Coast, and Cypress Point, on the West Coast. Reeves is 88, but still plays frequently. ![]() This was a new one to us, courtesy of Sam Reeves, a retired cotton merchant who has lived a lengthy life in the game. But have you ever heard the story about how he changed the perception of speed and power via…his shoelaces? ![]() About how he came in and changed the game. You’ve heard nearly all the Tiger Woods stories before. Tiger Woods' arrival on the pro golf scene changed the way a lot of people thought about the golf swing, world-famous instructors included. ![]()
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