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Tuesday
27Feb2007

Why Tiger Woods Didn't Win His 8th in a Row!

During Sunday’s Accenture post round interview, after admittedly not playing his best, Tiger said, “I had a double miss going on today.” That was the clue that told me what had gone wrong that day. His brain had no idea what his body was doing. Our bodies have a monitoring system that keeps track of what’s called joint position sense and joint motion. When this system isn’t working properly the body doesn’t know where the joints are nor what they are doing. When this happens we are unable to control our voluntary muscles. When we ask them to perform they do more of what they want and less of what we want or expect from them.

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