Monthly Archives: August 2012

Sir Nick Faldo Still Seeing Things That Aren’t There

By Wayne | Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras

This video doesn’t need much explanation. Rory McIlroy is hitting an iron shot from a fairway bunker, and luckily the camera is stable so we can accurately assess any elevation change in his body by drawing a line on top of his head. In his swing analysis Faldo remarks about Rory’s “steady head” and how he “maintains his level”, but the swing itself shows otherwise. Remarkably enough, it’s not even close: McIlroy’s head drops 2-3 inches in the backswing and another 4-5 inches in the forward swing, which goes to show you that when these announcers want to see something…

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Online Students: Stephen O’Neill

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Stephen has an excellent looking swing that could really use the compression movement in backswing to add power and to bring the hands to impact closer to the body, which would help make the squaring of the clubface less problematical than with his high approach. If you look at Stephen’s upper trunk turn in the backswing it becomes apparent that there is room for more coiling of the upper body as the swing heads to the top. In order to get this increased trunk rotation and not lose the brace in the right leg Stephen needs to push the right…

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Online Students: Gates Grainger

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

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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Swing Analysis: Sergio Garcia

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

One of the best ball-strikers in the game, Sergio has been out of the winner’s column on the PGA Tour since the Player’s Championship 4 years ago. He ended that string with a nice win at the Wyndham Championship last week, aided by his usual strong long game and some much improved putting. Here we look at Sergio’s swing from 1999 to the present, and we see that while he has modified his swing somewhat it still features his signature moves wherein he creates tremendous lag, or angle between his left arm and the club shaft in the forward swing,…

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Student Lesson: Steve Bohreer

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

It is both surprising and gratifying when a student exhibits improvement in a short period of time. I never expect to see full swings incorporate the kind of major changes that are many times called for and suggested by my instruction. I like to see evidence of change when we use the video multiple times, but when there are combinations of things to fix up it is extremely difficult to put them together and make swings that show a large improvement in the overall motion and technique. That is what makes this video so special, in that Steve showed up…

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Blues Jam (with video)

By Wayne | blog

You’ve gotten a taste of Wayne’s blues harp in the post “Swing Analysis: In the Lab: Swing Observations”. Here we have Wayne jamming out two full songs (blues harp and vocals) playing with a live band in an open jam format. The rest of the band is as follows: Scott Martin – Piano, Bruce Martin – Organ, Henry Kurosaka – Guitar, Scott Andrews – Drums, Paul Groover – Bass. All the players attended Langley High School in McLean, Virginia in the 1970’s. The first song is the instrumental “Relaxin” by Big Walter Horton and the second is a Sonny Boy…

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You Can’t Fail if You Don’t Try

By Wayne | blog

It is not hard to see why a teaching pro who achieves a decent level of success (meaning a busy lesson book) would play less competitive golf or stop playing altogether. First there is the opportunity cost, as missing a day of work could mean more $ than finishing first in whatever tournament there is to play in that causes you to miss that day. Second is the price of entry and travel expenses, which you never hear about when the Tour is discussed. For a club pro paying a couple hundred dollar entry and then finding a hotel room…

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Online Students: Tom Richards Part 4

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

  Tom is doing some nice work toward his main goal of un-steepening the shaft in his downswing. In this video he tries out the takeaway-stop drill and I have a chance to compare it side by side with his full motion swing. The differences would be subtle to the eye (probably couldn’t pick any out) but are obvious once the lines are drawn. You can see what a major difference a couple of inches of depth in the hips makes to the overall motion and approach angles of the swing, as Tom’s drill swing gets much closer to what…

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Online Students: Jason Huguet

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Here I give you the opportunity to stop the video and do your own analysis. I don’t think it would be such a great idea to have all of you post your analyses on the site as that might make Jason’s head explode, so for this one you can discuss elements of how mine was different but don’t post the whole thing.  

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