[Langdude]

He played a different game, and you can look back at that swing--the sheer violence of it--and guess his body would not survive it.

Tiger's personal demons aside, this made me think... I wonder if his body's frame just did not allow for the large amount of muscle that he put on to it. He looked like a linebacker early on, and I sometimes asked myself how much of that was really needed for his swing. We've seen injuries in other sports where a wiry- or smaller-framed person put too much muscle on to that frame and it ended in chronic injury, especially now that science has made it (relatively) easy to add muscle mass. Maybe cut his muscle mass in half, and I wonder if Tiger would not have hit it as far, but also would have had a longer career. I really don't know, and could totally be wrong. But I do wonder.

-m.

[Langdude]

He played a different game, and you can look back at that swing--the sheer violence of it--and guess his body would not survive it.

Tiger's personal demons aside, this made me think... I wonder if his body's frame just did not allow for the large amount of muscle that he put on to it. He looked like a linebacker early on, and I sometimes asked myself how much of that was really needed for his swing. We've seen injuries in other sports where a wiry- or smaller-framed person put too much muscle on to that frame and it ended in chronic injury, especially now that science has made it (relatively) easy to add muscle mass. Maybe cut his muscle mass in half, and I wonder if Tiger would not have hit it as far, but also would have had a longer career. I really don't know, and could totally be wrong. But I do wonder.

-m.