By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
It’s no surprise when you look at his swing up close that Kevin Kisner won the PGA Tour event last week and has almost won a bunch of other ones, including the Player’s Championship, where a lip out on the last hole eventually cost him the title. He exemplifies solid swing mechanics, and his takeaway and hip movement throughout the swing are about as good as you will find.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Online Students
As you will see in the video Michael has a pretty good handle on his issues other than his sequence, which I show is a real problem. Once again it is the takeaway and right arm issues in the backswing that lead to transition problems and thus problems at impact. I think that if Michael got his initial takeaway to stay on plane (hands more inward, clubhead more outside his hands by keeping the left wrist cupped), and then learned to limit his right arm bend heading to the top of the swing he would be making major improvements.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
Now that I feel better and can actually try to incorporate the things I am telling everyone else to do I figured the website members would be interested to see how I’m doing as far as getting my swing to look and function better. Of course we won’t know until I compete but I’m hitting the ball much better and far stronger and the swing is looking pretty good, and trust me I almost never say that.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week
Nick is the son of a PGA Professional, Mark Cammarene, and back in July Mark sent me his son’s swing for analysis as he was watching Nick hit the ball horribly and wasn’t able to help (son’s don’t like to listen to their fathers many times). I made some suggestions that helped out quite a bit so when I got down to Florida this week Mark set up a time for me to teach Nick face to face.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
This week I’ve had a chance to test out the more erect set up with less knee flex and I like the look and function of it although it has not produced as much lowering as I had expected in the backswing. It has, however, given me a greater feeling of loading into the right hip which has made a big difference in my ability to sequence the transition from the ground without leaning forward toward my left toes with the upper trunk.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
You wouldn’t really expect to find a great amount of similarity between the “upright” swing of Jack Nicklaus and the “flat” swing of Ben Hogan, but in this video I show that they are actually eerily similar when viewed from a skewed face on angle. I thought of making this comparison after responding to a comment on my video “The Lost Art of the Lifted Left Heel” which chastised me for instructing people to push off their right foot to initiate the downswing, saying that was a horrible thing, and that it was actually the left knee that initiated the forward swing.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Basement Tapes
In this basement segment I go over what I have been doing lately with my swing. I have picked up a tremendous amount of distance and my iron play is far more accurate. I will keep you up to date on my progress as I get down to Florida to do some teaching and practicing.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: From The Vault
Here’s more footage from the 1999 PGA at Medinah, including a practice round with Jay Haas, Fred Funk and Craig Stadler, along with swings from Sergio Garcia, Retief Goosen, Ernie Els, and others. Oh yes, and swings by Wayne D. as well.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Basement Tapes
My best buddy and caddy for the 1999 PGA, Mark Diamond, had the great idea to put my camera in the bag, and when I teed it up at 6:30 AM with John Cook, Mark O’Meara and late arrival David Duval for a Wednesday practice round we were able to capture a great memory.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Articles: The Mental Game
It all starts to break down, slowly at first, so that you hardly notice, a bad round, followed by another. Just a few shots higher, but that feeling of control is slipping away. The shots aren’t as solid, there are more trees in the way of your imperfect drives, the putts are lipping out instead of in.
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