May, 2016 | Wayne DeFrancesco

Online Students: Erik Ludtke Part 3

As you will see from the video Erik has a very good idea of what he needs to work on. In this analysis I suggest a more on plane takeaway achieved by cocking the wrists more vertically as the trunk moves the arms, and the hands moving slightly more straight back. I also emphasize the spacing of the right upper arm away from the body at address and into the start of the backswing. From there the big thing is the pelvic movement.

Online Students: Mike Macaluso

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

In Mike’s email that came with the videos he stated that he had an amateur event to play in soon and was looking for something that might help out his “mess of a swing” (his own words). I always like to give a thorough analysis when people pay for an online lesson so most times there are going to be too many things to practice all at once. I usually suggest what I think the priorities should be but that is really more up to the student to decide after fiddling with each item a bit.

Improvement: Peter Procops, PGA Part 5

By Wayne | Improvement

This lesson is actually a compilation of three short lessons. The first part Peter has freed up his leg movement in the backswing which I like but his head is a bit left of center and the forward hip drive is a bit too forward and not enough around. The next section the face-on view is looking really nice.

Online Students: Michael Beaty Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Michael has a very clear idea of what his problems are, but not a clear idea of how to fix them. From the video you will see that he has an excellent swing, and that his most glaring issue is just what he thought it was, the use of his lower body in the downswing. I compare him with Rory and the difference there along with the explanation will (I hope) help him retain his hip depth and to clear his left leg much better, which in turn will allow him to get his hands more forward at impact and to sustain his bent right wrist/flat left wrist past impact.

Swing Analysis: Danny Willett

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

We already saw a nice down the line view of Willett on the 16th at Augusta and now we can look more closely at his swing with different clubs and from various angles. It is a quirky but highly efficient swing with an extremely early set of the wrists and almost zero hip rotation in the backswing. If you were looking for a classis demonstration of the “hands out” move and the flattening of the shaft in transition this would be it. The only negative I see has nothing to do with his swing but more with his fidgety address routine, which seemed to take differing amounts of time with each shot. It worked out here of course, but over time I would think he would want to make that more consistent.

Online Students: Rick James Part 3

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

So overall though ball striking is showing signs of new potential. I had a 5 round run in April at home club with stroke avg. of 70.8 (par 71, course rating 72.1). I have stats for last 5-6 years and I tried to find a similar run on same course, it was the best, closest was one last Aug maybe 4 rounds at a few over aggregate, but in looking at GIRs that Aug run was ~ 10 avg. and the one last month was just under 14

Online Students: Kyle Parsons

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Kyle’s swing is a great example of a technically sound, on plane motion that could be made to work better by improving his release action. Kyle straightens his right arm at impact, which in the irons causes the hands to “throw” the clubhead at the ball, resulting in some erratic contact due to the fast rate of clubface rotation through impact. With the driver this same release pattern has Kyle swinging well out to the right with again a loss of clubface stability.

Lesson of the Week: Jordan Kaplan

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Jordan is a good player and wants to compete at a high level as an amateur, and as you can see he is a strong, athletic swinger of the club. His goal in coming for help was to learn about his swing and to see if he could improve his overall ball striking, especially with the irons under pressure.

Improvement: Peter Procops, PGA Part 4

By Wayne | Improvement

This is a series of lessons that begins in July 2013 to present and will continue as long as new lessons occur. Peter is a fellow PGA professional who played the South American tour (Tour De Las Americas) for 5 years and Golden Bear Tour (Mini Tour) 5 years 1997-2001. I asked Peter, and he was gracious enough, to comment on his lessons and give everyone some insight on what he went through to get to where he is now. The hope is that anyone watching and reading can be encouraged to keep working as they witness what can be accomplished.

Lesson of the Week: Nick Cammarene Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Nick is the son of Mark Cammarene, a PGA Professional working in the Palm Beach, Florida area. Nick works at Jonathan’s Landing, another nice club in the same area, and is contemplating making a career in the golf business. Working in the business is way more fun when you’re a good player, and Nick was struggling when Mark decided to bring him down. This is Nick’s second lesson, and while he was hitting it much better he was still struggling with control of his longer clubs.

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