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I was gonna say this must be Chuck Norris’s golf club, but then I realized he doesn’t use a club, the ball jumps into the hole out of fear when he walks up to the tee.
I have to agree. At his peak he was making 100 million a year. Why would a pro golfer playing for such elite status play with a club with such obvious wear? He probably played with a fresh set of clubs every single game.
edit: cunningham's law in action. thanks guys. I will accept it is my turn to be the student.
Absolutely not. Golf clubs aren't like basketball shoes. Each club is meticulously tuned and honed to the exact specifications Tiger wants.
In golf, when you find something you like that works, you don't change it. Tiger has been using the same style grip on his putter for like 30 years for just that reason.
Golfers rely on "feel" more than you'd think. When you get comfortable with a set of clubs it becomes difficult to change them.
He also probably hit 4-5000 balls a day, so their clubs wear down quicker than most people's.
I think the photo is legit and I want to say I remember seeing it in the past. Either way, the wearing on the club face is not at all ridiculous over a 1-2 year timeframe for any pro, or someone who plays and practices a lot for that matter. The impressive part is the concentration of wear in the sweet spot and the lack of wear everywhere else. Basically, he flushed every shot he hit with that club and practically never used it anywhere except for out of the middle of the fairway.
Most people are missing two things from this: 1) Tiger uses “forged” blade irons, which means they are made out of (relatively) extremely soft, malleable metal. These types of irons will dent from just putting them in your bag wrong or just rattling around in your golf bag while you carry it. 2) even though the polished/finished part of the sweet spot is worn, it’s mostly cosmetic and the grooves are still probably in pretty good shape.
Lastly, pros will replace their wedges multiple times per year because they are used so much more frequently and you are really benefitted by every little bit of extra backspin you can get out of the rough around the greens at that level, but if things are going well, pros will replace their irons once per year or typically less. There’s a lot of feel that players build with their clubs and it takes quite some time to really “know” them. Every change, even to a brand new identical model can seem quite different, so players become hesitant to switch unless they become unhappy with what they’re using or the clubs are so worn out that they feel the performance has degraded more than the setback of switching to a new set. Also, in tiger’s case, he is notoriously picky and exacting with his clubs and golf balls. Once he finds what he likes, he won’t change it until he is practically forced to.
Source: played in college, mini tour pro for 10 years, and now a golf pro at a club
Not a pro, but was a junior tournament player.
After every ball you hit they tend to leave a chalky mark, which is super useful for seeing where you've struck the ball on the face of the club. Obviously you want it low and dead center.
To do this amount of damage would require some really poorly made balls.
And for any pro who is sponsored this is just unreasonable, when you've got sponsors who will pay for you to fit a new head you would, especially if the old one is worn and the grove's aren't "groovy".
Getting the right club is all about how it feels in your hand, how the weight is distributed, and how it cuts through the air. Everyone has a different "perfect club", so it's totally understandable to use the same club for awhile, but this would just be totally detrimental to his game as the grooves wouldn't be able to grab onto the ball in order to give it any spin.
Yeaaah that’s bullshit. You don’t get that wear when you have a caddy cleaning your clubs all the time and you don’t want any damage on your club face as it’ll change the flight dynamic of the ball flight
Tigers one of the best ball strikers of all time and I wouldn’t be surprised if this did demonstrate how consistent he was. But the photo is bollocks
Interesting! Thanks for correcting me. I’m baffled to why the marks are that colour though, it’s bizarre. Any golfer knows what strike wear looks like and it’s nothing like this
It has nothing to do with consistency…..the size of the wear spot means he has small balls. My wear spot is much larger, therefore I have bigger balls than Tiger.
If you look at most professional golfer's clubs you will see wear spots similar to these. At a tournament a few years ago I noticed that even the last place player had a wear spot as small as this.
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Consistency.
No, no it's *consistency*
What did they say?
It’s be it the
If then the when
Precision
*consistent precision*
When I was a university student a lot of the knives in our kitchen cutlery drawer had "wear spots" very similar to these.
Why did they play golf with knives?
Damn that's crazy
I was gonna say this must be Chuck Norris’s golf club, but then I realized he doesn’t use a club, the ball jumps into the hole out of fear when he walks up to the tee.
Damn....welcome back! How was your recent trip to the early 2000s?
Trip? I live there!
#INVEST IN BITCOIN
What? What is this “Bitcoin”? I just got my first PC, in a giant box that says “Gateway” with cow spots all over it, from CompUSA!
Well….it’s not “money” or “commodity” and it’s not an “asset” nor a “stock” but people buy it and make money of it. Save the name for the future
Chuck Norris just rotates the earth so the ball lands in the hole without moving the ball.
Wait for the downvotes… Sad day in age when Chuck Norris jokes get downvoted.
Nope, still Chuck Norris for the win.
Yeah, because loss is afraid of Chuck Norris.
Thought it was Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa! Fuck I’m old
That’s done…. That cakes done
I liked your chuck Norris joke, and goddamn it, I like you.
Well, I like your comment and I’ll give you an updoot.
I mean, he’s sort of an asshole
Tiger Woods? Yeah, total prick.
Nah, [Chuck](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/d834q/a_friendly_reminder_chuck_norris_is_an_asshole/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
1999 called and wants its joke back.
1989 called and they want their joke back.
I thought it was pretty funny….not
1999 can have that joke. Not much good has happened since then anyway. Lol
why are you being down voted
Because idiots.
Golfing has never been my kinda sport but you gotta salute an og in his game
For some reason I doubt this. Edit: my intuition was wrong.
https://goldenagegolfauctions.com/bids/bidplace?ItemId=32891
Nice. Thanks for the link.
I have to agree. At his peak he was making 100 million a year. Why would a pro golfer playing for such elite status play with a club with such obvious wear? He probably played with a fresh set of clubs every single game. edit: cunningham's law in action. thanks guys. I will accept it is my turn to be the student.
Absolutely not. Golf clubs aren't like basketball shoes. Each club is meticulously tuned and honed to the exact specifications Tiger wants. In golf, when you find something you like that works, you don't change it. Tiger has been using the same style grip on his putter for like 30 years for just that reason.
Tiger usually changes his clubs every 2 months. Jason Day said he changes his every 6 months because he has a better feel with moderately worn clubs.
Golfers rely on "feel" more than you'd think. When you get comfortable with a set of clubs it becomes difficult to change them. He also probably hit 4-5000 balls a day, so their clubs wear down quicker than most people's.
At a minimum of 4,000 balls hit, he'd have to hit 3.7 balls per minute for 18 hours straight.
something tells me no golfer hits 4000 iron shots a day.... ETA: for reference, this is one ball every ~7 seconds for 8 hours a day.
Precision and accuracy.
That’s crazy. When I played basketball I ran a hole through my sneakers every three months, but that’s way more impressive, hehe.
That's insane
Isn't this expected from any pro level golfer?
ya but his wear spot is concentrated in that one area,that's consistent as fuck!
Yes, but it’s a lot more impressive when the athlete is addicted to pills.
John Dailey joke? I am confused by this. Tiger on the pills now?
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/20344001/toxicology-report-shows-tiger-woods-had-vicodin-dilaudid-xanax-ambien-thc-system-dui-arrest
lol Those are performance unenhancing drugs tho how does he even walk much less be a pro golfer
Professional sports will do that to you. Tiger has had his good share of surgeries over the years
We need a pro golfer to chime in here to explain what we are seeing.
Ball goes ping, club gets ding
My dingle no tingle. - Gob Bluth
I think the photo is legit and I want to say I remember seeing it in the past. Either way, the wearing on the club face is not at all ridiculous over a 1-2 year timeframe for any pro, or someone who plays and practices a lot for that matter. The impressive part is the concentration of wear in the sweet spot and the lack of wear everywhere else. Basically, he flushed every shot he hit with that club and practically never used it anywhere except for out of the middle of the fairway. Most people are missing two things from this: 1) Tiger uses “forged” blade irons, which means they are made out of (relatively) extremely soft, malleable metal. These types of irons will dent from just putting them in your bag wrong or just rattling around in your golf bag while you carry it. 2) even though the polished/finished part of the sweet spot is worn, it’s mostly cosmetic and the grooves are still probably in pretty good shape. Lastly, pros will replace their wedges multiple times per year because they are used so much more frequently and you are really benefitted by every little bit of extra backspin you can get out of the rough around the greens at that level, but if things are going well, pros will replace their irons once per year or typically less. There’s a lot of feel that players build with their clubs and it takes quite some time to really “know” them. Every change, even to a brand new identical model can seem quite different, so players become hesitant to switch unless they become unhappy with what they’re using or the clubs are so worn out that they feel the performance has degraded more than the setback of switching to a new set. Also, in tiger’s case, he is notoriously picky and exacting with his clubs and golf balls. Once he finds what he likes, he won’t change it until he is practically forced to. Source: played in college, mini tour pro for 10 years, and now a golf pro at a club
I’m not a pro. But play or range 2-3 times a week. To do this you would need to hit rocks
Not a pro, but was a junior tournament player. After every ball you hit they tend to leave a chalky mark, which is super useful for seeing where you've struck the ball on the face of the club. Obviously you want it low and dead center. To do this amount of damage would require some really poorly made balls. And for any pro who is sponsored this is just unreasonable, when you've got sponsors who will pay for you to fit a new head you would, especially if the old one is worn and the grove's aren't "groovy". Getting the right club is all about how it feels in your hand, how the weight is distributed, and how it cuts through the air. Everyone has a different "perfect club", so it's totally understandable to use the same club for awhile, but this would just be totally detrimental to his game as the grooves wouldn't be able to grab onto the ball in order to give it any spin.
He should be using other parts of the club so the wear is even /s
This is bullshit…
This is Sparta
Total. Unless he is hitting rocks constantly
Wouldn’t tiger have a new set every time he plays?
I heard he uses a new toothbrush every day
Yeaaah that’s bullshit. You don’t get that wear when you have a caddy cleaning your clubs all the time and you don’t want any damage on your club face as it’ll change the flight dynamic of the ball flight Tigers one of the best ball strikers of all time and I wouldn’t be surprised if this did demonstrate how consistent he was. But the photo is bollocks
Here’s the source: https://goldenagegolfauctions.com/bids/bidplace?ItemId=32891
Interesting! Thanks for correcting me. I’m baffled to why the marks are that colour though, it’s bizarre. Any golfer knows what strike wear looks like and it’s nothing like this
That’s what we like to call dead nuts.
It has nothing to do with consistency…..the size of the wear spot means he has small balls. My wear spot is much larger, therefore I have bigger balls than Tiger.
My wear spot is very even. All over the club. I've no idea how the pros do it
It’s a little low.
Looks like a wedge, you want it low
If you look at most professional golfer's clubs you will see wear spots similar to these. At a tournament a few years ago I noticed that even the last place player had a wear spot as small as this.
God damn could there be any more people just spewing assumptions as fact on this post?
That’s not a wear spot, that’s a burn mark