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Lesson of the Week: Joseph Barr Part 2

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Joseph has just completed 4 years on the golf team at the University of Kentucky, and is now contemplating playing in some professional events. I have been working with him for about 2 years, although I haven’t seen him more than 3 or 4 times. Even so, he has made great strides with his swing, which was quite idiosyncratic to begin with, and still is to an extent, especially with the driver. Joseph has a unique way of finding a shaft plane approach, but when I saw the amount of head drop and spine tilt in the impact area I…

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Lesson of the Week: Jim Heerwagen

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Jim was visiting the DC area from California and had been a member of the website for some time so he decided to pay a visit. He had recently been to a golf school where he reported that he had worked mostly on tempo and balance. I found that to be interesting as it turned out that we wound up working on the very same things, as you will see in the video.   The first thing I noticed in watching Jim hit some full shots was how slow his swing looked. We talked a bit about what he had…

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Online Students: Gates Grainger

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This video lesson is a perfect example of why it is imperative to have both the face-on and down-the-line views of a swing in order to do a complete and effective analysis of a swing. Not only can you see different things from each view many items are exclusive to that particular view. For example, you can’t tell how much lateral movement is present in the hips and the head from down the line, just like you can’t tell accurately how the club shaft is moving plane-wise from face-on.   In Gate’s swing we see that he needs to work…

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Online Student: Chris Ellis

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Chris is a good example of great instincts impeded by poor mechanics. Chris’ backswing is fraught with problems, but his forward swing recovers nicely and finds an approach worthy of a top notch player. Watching this I couldn’t help but think that if Chris could clean up some of the major issues in the first half of his swing that he could really come up with some good ball striking. Usually players have to pay more attention to the downswing than the backswing, but I think in this case it will be far more beneficial in the short and long…

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Lesson of the Week: Justin Duffie

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What you see here is a complete re-tooling of his swing that came about from hours of lessons and hundreds of hours of practice.

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Lesson of the Week: Sean Heintzleman

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In this lesson you (and Sean) can clearly see that he has already begun to accomplish the changes we set out to make at the beginning of the lesson.

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Lesson of the Week: Jonathan Vassil

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What we see here is a classic case of a good athlete with excellent motion and power but trouble controlling the ball as far as direction and trajectory. What jumped out at me right away was the dropping hands and steepening shaft in transition, and this was our major focus after doing some grip and setup work.

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