PLAYBOY: Of course, even your golf game has type A written all over it. You could have taken lessons at a public driving range, but instead you hired Tiger Woods’s former coach, Butch Harmon. Any tips to share with the weekend golfer? TIMBERLAKE: Butch’s whole approach is that it’s way better to have a short swing that gives an accurate shot than to try [hit the ball a mile]. He would make me practice hitting 30 or 50 balls with a 6-iron just to get used to hitting low punch shots. Half swing, swing low, don’t even finish the swing. When I showed up, I was scooping the ball up with great big swings because I thought that’s how you get the ball into the air. Using shorter swings lets the club do what it was made to do.
We're going to try that.
You might also be interested in Golf Digest's interview with Timberlake prior to the '09 Open Challenge.
Bob Carney
