The hard corset significantly decreased lower-back or lumbar rangeof motion in all phases of the golf swing compared with the soft corset and no corset, the motion analysis showed.
One could pass this off as gamesmanship, but Woods himself for months has been talking about the challenge of transferring a new, consciously learned swing from the range into the crucible of competition.
Dr Mark Smith, who is part of the Golf Education and Research Group at the University of Lincoln, England, believes that, with development, the swing could become part of the rangeof shots used by the modern golfer.