Tiger Woods’ one-time guru serving to a brand new professional. And the outcomes? ‘Very nice’

Harry Corridor says he appeared on the wall, and the show floored him. There have been 20 to 25 flags, he thinks. All represented major-championship wins earned below his eye. 

After all, Butch Harmon’s Las Vegas swing lab additionally awed him, he mentioned final yr on a podcast, when he remembered the participant who as soon as swung the place he was now swinging. 

Tiger Woods. 

Harmon can actually wow a participant, although his attraction is justified, because the wall and Woods can attest. Which is seemingly a motive why Corridor, a 27-year-old professional from England who mentioned he’d beforehand had simply bits and items of instruction, dialed up one of many sport’s best swing whisperers and a GOLF Journal High 100 Trainer corridor of famer. Couldn’t damage. Harmon took him in. And from there? That is spectacular, too. Since final June, when he mentioned he visited for the primary time, Corridor has:

— Gained for the primary time on the PGA Tour, in mid-July on the ISCO Championship 

— Missed only one reduce in 11 begins 

— Posted seven prime 25s, together with final week on the season-opening Sentry occasion 

“I began working with him,” Corridor mentioned, “and since then I’ve performed very nice.”

Thursday, the good continued, as he fired a six-under 64 to seize a share of the round-one lead on the Sony Open. Afterward, he’d famous his tee balls — “drove it precisely the place I used to be wanting as we speak” — and reporters questioned whether or not that effort was frequent. “No,” Corridor mentioned, with fun. He defined {that a} new driver helped. 

Harmon, too. Corridor, who performed faculty golf at Nevada-Las Vegas, mentioned he’d been proven to get extra width on his swing, together with sticking with only a draw shot form. There’s extra to Harmon’s genius, although. He’s personable, he informed Matt Chivers final yr on an episode of the “NCG Golf Podcast” (which you’ll be able to hearken to in full by clicking right here.)

“It’s wonderful,” Corridor mentioned on the podcast. “He lives in Vegas. Received his personal faculty on the market. Simply hitting in the identical bay as Tiger Woods and also you’ve acquired, you look behind, what number of majors are on the wall from his gamers. He might need 20 or 25 flags. Hopefully, I can put a number of extra up there.

“It’s simply the tales that he’s acquired. Quite a lot of the lesson is swing work, and plenty of it’s him telling humorous jokes and tales that may’t be repeated. So it’s good. There’s undoubtedly one thing about him that’s calming and he most likely has plenty of success when he sees gamers a couple of times. He’s only a good man to be round.”

The outcomes present it. The stats, too. Under is a take a look at Corridor’s non-putting strokes gained numbers from the 2022-’23 Tour season (his first full Tour season), adopted by his numbers from final yr: 

— Strokes gained: complete: 94th in 2022-’23 to thirty seventh in 2024

— Strokes gained: tee to inexperienced: 166th to sixtieth 

— Strokes gained off the tee: 173rd to 139th 

— Strokes gained method the inexperienced: 163rd to 77th

— Strokes gained across the inexperienced: 53rd to sixth

“I by no means actually had a coach earlier than,” Corridor mentioned, talking of connecting with Harmon. “… I had a number of rising up, however not within the final most likely 10 years.

“I felt like that’s what I wanted to do to get to the subsequent degree.”