Monthly Archives: June 2013

Chamblee on McIlroy: “Insufficient”, or Less Than Stellar Lower Body Movement

By Wayne | Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras

I happened to be flipping through channels when I caught this short piece, and when I heard Brandel ripping Rory and comparing him to Byron Nelson I knew I had another video in the can. Chamblee is mind-boggling: he takes the best players in the world, waits for them to have a bad round or a bad tournament, picks their worst shot, and does an analysis showing how poor their technique is and states that this is why they missed the cut, or lost the tournament, or hit the odd bad shot. Of course, he knows beforehand that the shot…

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Online Student: Jim Miller

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

It took me a while to write the copy for this lesson so I just had to watch it over again to remember what the swing did and what I said. I have to tell you that this is a very cool lesson, because it deals with a swing that looks mint to the eye at regular speed, yet demonstrates some basic flaws that without this type of analysis could easily go undetected. Jim’s motion is fluid and certainly looks powerful, and has the appearance of having excellent sequence and impact. But upon closer inspection we find a transition pretty…

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Day 2 at the CPC: A Tough Day for the Old Man

By Wayne | blog

Well, when your game goes and you’re out on a brutally difficult course it goes without saying that you are going to have to grind with all you have in order not to shoot a ridiculously high score. That was the case today on the Crosswater course, all 7550 yards of it, in the chill and rain and with no roll in the fairways. Man, what a test. I think back on my win here and marvel at what I accomplished, because this is one great test of golf. The massive difference in what was happening in 2001 as opposed…

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Playing for Money: Update on Len and Ben

By Wayne | blog

Hey, just an update on a couple of guys I’ve been working with. This past weekend Lenny finished T-7th at the Web.com Tour Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh, NC. Ben had a nice finish as well coming in T-6th at the NGA Tour Cutter Creek Classic in Snow Hill, NC. From Ben: Hey Wayno, Just wanted to let you know that I had my best finish on the NGA Tour so far. T6. Shot 71-68-70-68 (-11) and finished 3 shots back of the leaders. The game is coming along nicely and I’m working really hard to try to piece together…

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Day 1 at the CPC (With Video)

By Wayne | blog

I got a bit lucky today that at least 2 (and almost 4) of my tee shots didn’t go out of bounds left, and with a decent short game and putting round I managed to shoot 1 over 72. After the round I went right over to the range and filmed a couple of driver swings just to see what I already knew I would see. I guess the point here is that even though you know what you want to do and try like crazy to do it you may not be physically able to. And where do you…

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Hope Springs Eternal

By Wayne | blog

Playing golf is a pain (literally) in the ass. Every time I enter myself into another event (they are all major at this point) I inevitably start wondering why the hell I keep putting myself through this. This week I’m out at the CPC in Oregon where I won in 2001 and am trying to put together a game that won’t post embarrassing scores. I have continued to struggle with my pivot as my back just won’t really loosen up anymore and the attempt to lower as I get to the top of the swing would require far more practice…

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Kratzert Strikes Again: Seeing Things that Aren’t There

By Wayne | Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras

How hard is it to make sure that what you say about a golf swing is actually true? Well, pretty darn hard if you’re Billy Kratzert, who seems bent on saying whatever he wants to say no matter what is happening on the screen that he describing. My guess is that you will shake your head in wonder at this one, as his analysis is so blatantly wrong that it is hard to imagine that this made its way onto the internet on one of the most widely viewed golf websites in existence. It’s almost embarrassing that I can simply…

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Lesson of the Week: Tim Oyler

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

It’s pretty flattering when a guy whose business is promoting golf instruction DVD’s and websites comes all the way from Oklahoma to take a lesson. Of course, there are far less tornados in Maryland than in OK, so that could be part of the reason. Anyway, Tim is a very good player who, like many you see here on the website, has an impact problem caused by a recalcitrant right arm. The lesson here highlights just how difficult it is to change this particular habit, as you can watch Tim’s right forearm tip to more horizontal no matter what thought…

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Heading to the 2013 CPC (With Video)

By Wayne | blog

  The PGA of America decided to change the name of our national championship to the PGA PNC (PGA Professional National Championship), but when I won the thing it was called the CPC (Club Professional Championship). I don’t know about you, but I think that CPC is much more memorable than PGA PNC, so I’m going to keep calling it that. Anyway, we play again this year at the Crosswater Club in Bend, Oregon, which happens to be where I won, so there will be some great memories as I make my way around the course again. I have not…

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Online Students: Jonathan Airhart

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Jonathan is an Air Force pilot (I think that is correct, as he is a member of the F-22 Squadron) who has been in Russia for 4 years and now is getting back into golf. He used to film his swing quite a bit in high school (using Freddie Couples as a model) and has a pretty good awareness of what his flaws are. I noticed that Jon’s right hand grip was a bit weak (V pointing to the right of the chin) and that it appeared that his right palm separated from the left at the top of the…

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