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Lesson of the Week: Jason Gandy

Jason is just over a year out of college and has been struggling mightily with his ball striking, even though his swing would look great to just about anybody watching it. I was wondering myself what could be so wrong with something that looked so appealing, which just goes to show you that it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been looking at the stuff, if it’s too fast you can’t see it. If I had said “gee, the club must be coming in underneath your hands which is causing a complicated release action that you aren’t able to handle” then…

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Lesson of the Week: Chris Lane

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You have met Chris’ brother Joey and mom Bev, and now we get a look at young Chris. It’s pretty amazing how much Chris has grown over 3 years, and that change in body dimensions has definite effects on the swing. Chris is building up some muscle now but previously he was quite thin, and it isn’t easy for skinny people to feel the connection between the upper and lower bodies that allows the swing to synchronize properly. The disconnect is apparent in the first swings Chris showed up with today, as his right leg and knee overdrive and his…

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Bohreer Part 2

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Steve is a website member from Houston, Texas who visits DC every now and then and has stopped in to see me at Woodmont once before. This video looks at a 2 hours session we did this week, and I used the live audio camera to capture us working together on the range after I looked at his initial swings. Everyone seemed to like when I did this before, and although the video is somewhat longer than most of the ones I post I think it will hold your interest. Steve has nice action, but is plagued by weakness…

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Lesson of the Week: Bret Templeton

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This one should really give you hope that you can change an overall swing pattern in a relatively short period of time. Bret came to see me about a year ago and I had him work on some of the same things you will see here, but nothing really changed and we were again at a point where the swing pattern was so in-to-out that all he could hit were hooks that started well right, with the added attraction of the random fat and thin shot thrown in. He does manage to get his hands nicely up to the ball…

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Online Students: Michael Fredrickson

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Michael was a scratch player up to the age of about 40, when due to family obligations had to stop playing for an extended period, a scenario that I am finding is fairly common: a good player taking time off then struggling upon returning to the game. You can see reasons for both Michael’s good play and recent struggles. He has a nice, fluid motion with good sequence and plenty of clubhead lag, and as a result he leans the club forward on the ball for good contact. On the negative side we see some things that need work.…

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Online Students: Santiago Escobar

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I’m not sure about the level of Santiago’s game, but this swing has the potential to produce some excellent ball striking. It should be obvious to you from the beginning that the question here is what to do with the clubface. It is just about facing the ground at shaft parallel in the takeaway, and it remains quite shut throughout the backswing. The wrist position at the top is not overly bowed, and indeed looks quite neutral, so the actual grip has to be questioned (I can’t tell from a video how the club is placed in the hands) and…

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Lesson of the Week: Jeremy Wells

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Jeremy has been a solid player for William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va., and has one more semester before graduating and turning professional. He showed some real promise last summer by reaching the semi-finals of the Virginia State Amateur (losing to a 60- foot putt on the 18th hole) and finishing 5th in the Virginia State Open. He showed he could go low by shooting 16 under for 4 days at the Eastern Amateur, and has finished well in a number of college events. Jeremy enjoys working on his golf swing, and since being introduced to the website (and…

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Student Lesson: Joseph Barr

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Joseph is a solid Division 1 player, having played in the starting 5 in every tournament for the University of Kentucky and ranking 37th in scoring average in the conference. Joseph has designs on pursuing golf after college, and between he and his father, Jack, have decided that in order to have a realistic chance at success he would have to improve, which his record, while not shabby by any means, definitely indicates. The problem is that these days (just look at Q-School scoring) shooting 73 gets you lapped (both Lenny Mattiace and Camilio Villegas shot 73 in the 5th…

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Online Students: Derek Cribb

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Derek is a 2 handicap who can shoot under par but is susceptible to high scores due to a stubborn hook with the driver and some overall inconsistency with his ball striking. One thing he surely has plenty of is forward shaft lean, and in the video I go over why that is not such a great thing with the driver. A couple of things that stand out to my eye right away are the tight elbows at address, followed by the pinched right arm in the backswing. If you have watched any number of my previous lessons you will…

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Student Lesson: Ben Lieberman

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Here is a new young student of mine named Ben Lieberman. Ben is a good size kid and can play well having won his club’s Jr. Championship. His dad was a bit suspect of his technique and thought it could be improved so Ben could become an even better player. In this video we see that Ben has some things I really like to see in a swing; deep hips, compression in the backswing, etc. Ben also came in with a strong grip and tight, locked-up, arms at address and the tight arms would prove to be a bit of…

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