Monthly Archives: October 2012

Swing Analysis: Wayne D. at Liberty National: Focus on Right Hip Movement

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Over the years there are probably only a couple of people that I have taken advice from regarding my swing, my old friend Richard Kress and my best bud Mark Diamond. Richard is not a teaching pro but is a good player and a seeker of the highest order (he’s taken lessons from every teaching pro you could name) and has worked with me on his swing while playing with me and watching me play since the mid 80’s. I met Mark while playing the Goosie Space Coast mini-tour in the early 80’s and we have been friends ever since,…

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Wayne answers Hardy disciple’s comments on One Plane video.

By Wayne | blog

Mtwdwrd wrote: Wayne, I don’t know if you have some underlying insecurity or jealousy that leads you to have to criticize others, but it makes you look small. You can disagree all you want, but your opinion isn’t the golf gospel. Look at how many of your videos are to prove someone else is wrong. There was a thread on you over at golfwrx where a number of others feel the same way. You’re using video of one of the instructors and reading from Mr. Hardy’s book, but the pictures in his book are more accurate to what he is…

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Online Students: Dean Dunn-Rankin

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Dean has taken a couple of online lessons and has (according to Dean) improved quite a bit. Here we see that we are getting down to the major issue in his swing, which is that his swing pattern is arms away in the backswing, hands dropping back and down in transition while the legs work underneath him and out toward the ball. This would be a big change to accomplish without hands on work, but it is certainly worth a try. My suggestions include a deeper backswing so that an “out” move with the hands wouldn’t feel so “over the…

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Ryder Cup 2012: Much Ado About Very Little

By Wayne | blog

There is an inexorable urge among the media to assess blame for the United States’ loss in this year’s Ryder Cup. They just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter who played whom in what position. It doesn’t matter what guys were picked by the captains. What matters is that match play is an entirely one- on -one, personal thing, and the European team beat the Americans, straight up, fair and square. As the Accenture Match Play tournament has shown, at the Tour level anybody can beat anybody, and the overall level of one’s play is not necessarily highlighted by a…

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Online Students: David Ferrell

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Here we see one of the most common ways to get the clubhead “stuck” behind the hands in the approach to impact. David starts with the “triangle” look at address, which always looks tight to me, and I encourage him to go the “home plate” address (a la Hogan) where both arms are bent at the elbow and only loosely tied to the body. David’s swing doesn’t show any effects of this tightness until left arm parallel in the backswing, where he begins to slide to the right and lift up. His lack of contact with the ground makes it…

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