TIPS CHOP, HALF VOLLEY, AND COURT POSITION.

Chop stroke.
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In Tennis, a chop stroke is a shot where the angle towards the player and behind the racquet, made by the line of flight of the ball, and the racquet travelling down across it, is greater than 45 degrees and may be 90 degrees. The racquet face passes slightly outside the ball and down the side, chopping it, as a man chops wood. The spin and curve is from right to left. It is made with a stiff wrist. 

The slice shot merely reduced the angle mentioned from 45 degrees down to a very small one. The racquet face passes either inside or outside the ball, according to direction desired, while the stroke is mainly a wrist twist or slap. This slap imparts a decided skidding break to the ball, while a chop "drags" the ball off the ground without break. 

The rules of footwork for both these shots should be the same as the drive, but because both are made with a short swing and more wrist play, without the need of weight, the rules of footwork may be more safely discarded and body position not so carefully considered.

TIPS CHOP, HALF VOLLEY, AND COURT POSITION.

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Tiger Plays His Best “Shot”

Nineteen days have passed since the sky came crashing down on the world of professional golf. One player’s marital infidelity, a crash in the night while under the apparent influence of some intoxicating agent, and then silence—except from a chirping chorus of females joyously proclaiming to have shared sexual experiences with who? Tiger Woods? How could this be?
Then, suddenly the world of professional golf went silent. Nothing of substance came out of PGA Tour headquarters. The Golf Channel became a series of “Paid Programming,” “Playing Lessons,” “Big Break” time-fillers. Oh, there was a tournament, one of those unofficial functions with a selected field. It bore Tiger’s name, but Tiger called in and bailed out. I don’t even remember who won. I do remember that the player who filled Tiger’s playing spot, the Irish Graeme McDowell, finished second. The oil company that sponsored it lost—or, maybe it didn’t. A lot of us tuned in just to see how a Tiger tournament came off without Tiger. The commentators talked in the manner of people walking barefoot on broken glass.
In other words, the world of golf stood still. Elin’s mother, identified only as “Tiger’s mother-in law,” flew in from Sweden, fell ill one night and had to be take to hospital. A few days later a dray truck pulled up to the residence in Windermere and loaded several large boxes. Apparently, Elin and children were preparing to take flight. (Meanwhile, Jesper Parnevik blatantly said he was sorry he ever introduced the two, while Elin served as the Parnevik family nanny. Parnevik was belayed by some critics.)
After several days, Jack Nicklaus was asked for his opinion on the matter. He said, quite wisely, I thought: “It’s none of my

Tiger Plays His Best “Shot”

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Updated Inside Story on Tiger Woods

The following is a legitimate message I received from a trustworthy journalist I have known for years. It’s the Tiger-Elin incident finally put into reliable form, and I send along for no purpose other than to present the picture in its clearest form. —Furman Bisher
Forwarded story:
I have a Member who lives 10 houses down from Tiger in Isleworth. As we know Tiger’s agent is Mark Steinberg. My Member plays golf and is real good friends with another IMG Agent; who is very good friends with Steinberg and they share the same office. This information came from the other IMG Agent to my Member, and then to me today, and according to them is up to date as yesterday when my Member left Orlando.
On Thanksgiving Day, after he and Elin and the family had turkey dinner, he spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch watching football and texting Rachel. After each received and sent text message he would clear his message box to rid himself of the evidence. Sometime in between there, one of his Orlando buds called him to see if he wanted to get together at the Clubhouse to play poker with the guys, to which Tiger said yes. Tiger left the house around 7:30 to go play poker, and left behind his cell phone….and one message he had forgot to delete from Rachel.
When Tiger returned home around 11:30 -12 that night, Elin confronted him about the text message in the phone, and the started a heated discussion to its regards. According to what I was told, there was more “incriminating evidence” than just the text message (i.e. photos). Tiger tried to play it off to Elin by telling her she was reading too much in to it, and did not know the story, etc. Tiger went upstairs to change into his gym shorts and t – shirt, came back down, and Elin confronted him again; to which Tiger gave the same story. Tiger sat down in a chair in the living room, and Elin sat across from him urging Tiger to just come clean. Tiger stayed to his guns and denied everything. At one point Tiger turned away to look at the TV, and as he turned back, Elin hit him on the right side of the face with the head of a 9 – iron. When she struck Tiger, she put a huge gash in the right side of his face next to his nose (causing his nose to bruise some), and virtually knocking two of his upper teeth out, and breaking the bone on the upper right side. Tiger ran scared as hell out of the house (which is why he had on no shoes) with Elin swinging the golf club throughout the hallway to the garage (i.e. causing the severe damage which has been reported). Tiger hoped in the Escalade and tried to leave; and as we know Elin knocked out the windows in the Escalade. When Tiger crashed, Elin panicked and was not sure what to tell the police (which is why there are two conflicting stories from her). When this happened, Elin immediately called Mark Steinberg to tell him what happened, and Mark told Elin to tell him what hospital they were going to, and he would meet them there.
Tiger is transported to the hospital with Elin in the ambulance, and as they arrive Mark is there waiting for them. The people from the hospital and the doctors take Tiger in for X-Rays etc to check out the damage caused. The doctors tell Mark there is not much they can do to repair the teeth and the gash, but the doctor knows a cosmetic dentist and plastic surgeon in Phoenix who will make Tiger look as if nothing happened. Tiger tells Mark to get the jet ready and let’s head to Phoenix to get this done. Friday after Tiger is released from the hospital, he does not return home; he and Mark board the plane for Phoenix. If you remember FHP kept showing up at Isleworth to talk to Tiger, and was told by another FL attorney (who Tiger hired for PR reasons) Tiger was not ready to talk. Well now we know why,

Updated Inside Story on Tiger Woods

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