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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at Tiger Woods' famous Stinger Punch Shot.

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Now, many golfers hit punch shots, but Tiger was most famous for hitting these Stinger

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Punch shots with not just long irons, but his three would off the tee.

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In this video, we're going to discuss two keys for you to hit a better punch shot.

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Now, you may not have the club that's needed to be able to pull off hitting long Stinger

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or style two irons, but having a good punch shot as a go-to shot, any time you feel like you lose your swing

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or even if you just need a little extra control, is a good shot to add to your arsenal.

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Now, Tiger has talked about his punch shot, his stinger multiple times, and he frequently describes it

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as what's going on with his hands. He's described in many interviews that he has a lot of control

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and sensitivity with what's going on in his hands. So basically, that's where he feels all this shot.

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The two things you'll hear him describe is that you need to, he's going to close the club face

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like crazy, which I'll reference another video really just helps de-loft it.

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And then, he's going to feel like he keeps his hands ahead of the club head long into the follow-through.

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Now, that's usually the challenging movement for most players trying to execute a punch shot.

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Many golfers have a lot of the speed more in the handle or in the club head where the hands are

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releasing all the energy in the club head and the body is just kind of stopped on the way through.

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So even though he's describing keeping the hands moving forward, the way he's doing it is by having

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quieter hands and having his body move the club head in the path of the hands around him through the

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follow-through. This camera view doesn't highlight it as much, but you'll want to start off by having

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the ball position a little bit back in your stance and you're going to have to make sure that you

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get a fair amount of shafly. So you can see that he has a significant amount of shafly.

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Now, even though he has a significant amount of shafly, he's not going to take a very

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steep divot because he didn't create that shafly and by lunging his upper body on top of the golf ball.

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So in order to hit the shot really well, you need to get your hands more in front of your body

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using the movement that I teach of the white movement, but basically just getting your hands more ahead,

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but not by doing so by lunging the upper body by doing so with the movement of the arms.

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You want to keep your upper body slightly behind the golf ball so that you don't take a very

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steep divot. Tiger would describe that if you have too much hand activity or if you are too steep,

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then you'll get your spin rates to go too high and the ball will take off low, but then spin up

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and it will cost you too much distance. So in order to have that shafling, but then not take a deep

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divot, you have to have more of the energy moving the hands around and less of it down in the clubhead,

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extending it down. So as you saw, he had his hands well ahead, which you can see reflected in the

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angle of the shaft, but you'll see the actual path of the clubhead is not

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significantly down. It's pretty flat on the way through. It's definitely not

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traveling straight down into the ground and taking a big divot. And he did that because his upper

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body was slightly behind the ball, even though his hands were so far ahead. And he kept the handle

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moving by not flipping his wrists or scooping or having more of the speed in the hands in the club.

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He had it more in the body moving in order to keep the hands ahead. But if you're going to do that,

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you have to close the face more with shafrothation. It's easier to see the shafrothation

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from the down-line camera view. And one thing you'll notice is when he hit a lot of these

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fingers, he would take the club away in more of a closed or strong position. But then as he

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comes back down, he would describe it as right about here. You can see that the club face is,

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you know, it's on the close side, but it's not overly closed. You'll see that down through there,

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he really closes the club face with shafrothation, which allows him to get those hands ahead.

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Now, one of the other things that this will show is many golfers trying to get the hands to keep

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moving forward and the body to continue turning will take the club path and go really outside in.

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Here you'll see that he still does a good job of controlling the swing path and swing direction.

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Even though he has a significant amount of shafrothion and a club face that is more close.

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So you're going to have to play around a little bit with using some path feedback to make sure

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you get the ball flat you want. But by getting the hands and working on keeping the handle moving

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on the way through, YouTube can have some shafrothion without taking really steep divots,

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which is one of the big keys to the stinger shot. One sign that you'll see that he's using more

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of the body continuing to rotate on the way through is compared to his normal finish. He'll have

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a significant amount more of upper body rotation in the shaft will be kind of up more like this as

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opposed to down like that. That's an indication that his arms have worked more around and his body

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had more of an intention of really turning as opposed to having those arms really extending

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out towards the target and having more of a kind of full release which would typically yield a shaft

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slightly below parallel like this. So by comparison, this is a long iron hit on a part 3.

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We don't know exactly what shot he's hitting but you can see significantly less face closing.

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He's going to take a little bit more of a divot, maybe having a bit more hand action on the way through,

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and you'll see that his finished position hits more that shaft position like this. It's a little

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less rotation of the upper body and the hands got a little bit higher in the follow through as well.

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All those are signs that during his stinger, even though he's got the shaft way forward,

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he's emphasizing the body rotation in order to keep the hands ahead of the target and not stick

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the club in the ground. So while you may not be able to hit the punch out as far as tiger,

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I highly recommend working on the skill of being able to have quieter hands through impact.

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It really helps with developing a go-to shot that you can use under pressure or when you need a

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little bit more control.