Tiger Woods once revealed the advice his Dad gave him which helped him to hit the ball further

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It is hard to question anything Tiger Woods did on the golf course during the first 15 years of his career, with that spell establishing Woods as arguably the greatest to ever play the game.

It is an impossible debate deciding whether Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus is the greatest golfer of all-time, with the pair boasting 33 major titles between them. Woods certainly looked to be on course to eclipse Nicklaus’ tally when he won his 14th major title at the age of 32.

Woods definitely changed the game during the peak of his career. Everyone wanted to have Woods’ flair on the golf course; the kind of charisma which made him one of the biggest names any sport has ever seen.

And part of his success stemmed from just how far Woods hit the ball off the tee. Woods averaged 298 yards off the tee during the 2000 season in which he won nine times. While he was not always the most accurate, he would leave himself in a position where he could still produce the heroic shot and capitalise on being much further down the hole than his peers.

Tiger Woods reveals the advice which helped him hit the ball further off the tee

And it seems that his father Earl Woods can take much of the credit for that. In a video for Golf Digest – which was uploaded in 2022 – Woods explained the simple advice his dad had given him to help him make the most of his power off the tee.

“My dad was a big proponent of swinging absolutely as hard as you possibly can on two conditions: one, you can maintain balance, and two, you can guarantee you can hit the ball in the middle of the face. If you can’t do any one of those two, then you can’t swing that hard. That allows me to one, be able to hit the ball further, but with less effort, and two, control my misses,” he said.

“I see so many go up to a tee and put it in the ground. Well, first of all, what side of the tee box are you going to go to? Hogan was a big proponent of this. Immediately, the tangent itself sets you up to either go down the right or left, what shot you’re going to play based on that tee location. Then tee height, what shape shot you’re going to play. There’s a lot that goes into a simple, innocuous question.”

Where Woods ranked on the PGA Tour for driving during the early stages of his career

While Woods was in double figures for events played in 1996, it was in 1997 when he became a regular fixture on the PGA Tour. And he would spend the next five years in the top three for driving distance.

The high point came in that famous 2000 season, while his worst year in that run came the season before when he averaged just over 293 yards. He still managed to win eight times in 1999.

The game has changed since Woods’ career began, with technology improving significantly – particularly when it comes to the longest club in the bag. But it does appear to be a piece of advice which many golfers could do with listening to, with Woods breaking it down into such simple terms.