No matter what you think about Singh's choice to sue the tour, it's hard to ignore his record as a player -- 56 worldwide wins, including a season in which he won nine times on tour. Few players have worked harder than Singh to get to the top of the game.
One of the ironies of him filing suit this week at Sawgrass is that it's the place where he built his game out of the dirt on the back of the practice range. When Paul Tesori caddied for Singh in and , he said that he got a total of 24 days off in two years. But Tesori, who now works for Webb Simpson , said he couldn't complain, because Singh took off only three days over that stretch. When Singh was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in , he said that he owed everything to golf.
One of six kids, he grew up poor in Nadi, Fiji, where his father worked at the local airport. After dropping out of school at 16 to pursue a pro golf career, he began the journey that would take him all over the world in search of a place to play. Now that wonderful story could be marred by a fight with the organization that has allowed him to obtain the American dream.
Often people are deterred from legal fights because of the hefty legal fees and the emotional costs associated with long court battles. Singh might ultimately find a measure of justice in his battle with the tour, but it's likely to come at the expense of his golf game.
Through injuries and putting woes since his last win in , Singh has never surrendered to Father Time or the summoning of the Champions Tour.
His relentless pursuit of excellence has earned him the status as a pro's pro among his peers. Yet what he fights for now is that reputation as a prolific worker who sacrificed everything for the game. The former will give you a powerful wind up that will last for years; the latter means cheating your turn.
Extension is the goal, and one time-tested way he went about working on this: Starting each range session swinging the shortest club in his bag a sand wedge as long as he possibly can in slow motion. Want to overhaul your bag for ? Vijay says his current backswing length is almost 60 inches. Getty Images. Extend your arc While Vijay maintains that the longer the better on the backswing, he has one caveat: Making sure you do it by turning, rather than lifting , your arms. Love this. VJ was a pro in his country if Im not mistaken.
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