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Return to Hogan

By Wayne | Articles: The Golf Swing, Short Game and Putting

It’s not a great feeling when you know in your heart that you are overmatched, that a golf course and the conditions are too tough and that the true level of your game will not be enough to bring about a positive result, and that you will ultimately fail. I’ve had these feelings a few times in the past, almost every time at the PGA Championship after I have qualified through top 20 finishes in the National Club Pro. It is disconcerting to know that I am not good enough to compete in a major championship, but it is another…

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You Mean You’re not Supposed to Hold it Like a Bird?

By Wayne | Articles: The Golf Swing, Short Game and Putting

If you had been using the proper concepts and still were as bad as you have been, you would have good reason to be depressed about your chances of ever being any good. But since you have never given your body a chance to try it the right way, you don’t know just what your potential might be. So instead of being annoyed at spending so much time on the wrong track, you should be excited about finally getting on the right track. I think you will start to make some tremendous progress once we spend some time incorporating your new conceptions into good mechanics and correct feel.

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How to Change Your Swing

By Wayne | Articles: The Golf Swing, Short Game and Putting

I am often asked whether I enjoy teaching, and to the surprise of those who cannot fathom spending 8 hours a day instructing the needy, I always reply with a positive. While I love to play, I don’t depend on my playing to pay my bills. I tried that, and found it an incredibly difficult task. The game is hard enough with its precipitous ups and downs without adding the pressure of earning a living. I certainly feel pressure when I play in tournaments, but not the kind of pressure that accrues when your finish means everything. My events mean…

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The Treacherous Art of Putting (part 1)

By Wayne | Articles: The Golf Swing, Short Game and Putting

Who among us has never missed a 2 foot putt? I’ve certainly misfired on more than a few in my career, as has every player I’ve ever known. That distance, 2 feet, is microscopic when compared to the distance traveled to get to that point, and yet it is one of the strange attributes of the game of golf that the traversing of that final 2 feet is valued exactly the same as the 280 yard drive that opened the journey to the cup.

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The Treacherous Art of Putting (part 2)

By Wayne | Articles: The Golf Swing, Short Game and Putting

The final bit of information which would bring me to my present state of affairs was my 3 hour session with Scotty Cameron in his putting studio in California. The Titleist people were kind enough in the early spring of 2001 to have me out to test their clubs and to visit with their resident putting genius. Scotty began by testing the putter I was using at the time, still the Odyssey mallet, measuring the length, loft (to a tenth of a degree), weight, and shaft flex. He then had me hit some putts while filming me with high tech…

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How to Make a Putt

By Wayne | Articles: The Golf Swing, Short Game and Putting

The idea behind this clinic is to give you a complete picture of the best way to walk onto a putting green and make the putt you are facing. What exactly should be going on in your mind, and what preparations should you have already made to ensure that you will make your best effort to knock in that putt and save yourself one, two, or three strokes off of your eventual 18 hole score.

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