By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
This is a very cool shot of Jimmy Walker hitting the perfect high and soft bunker shot under the extreme heat of a major championship. We have seen more of the players move to a squarer stance with all their bunker shots, but here Walker demonstrates the extreme cut across method with the feet way open to the left and the face way open to the right.
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Here is more of me wrestling with my swing at a real tournament. I made a discovery of sorts watching Hogan on Saturday night and took it out to the practice round Sunday with some promising results. The new idea was to…
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If you haven’t watched Connor’s online lessons from the first one you should really go back and check each one of them out. The improvement really shows that online work can help even the best players, and as you watch Connor’s swing it’s hard not to agree that it’s one of the best you will see. He definitely has the ability to take his game to the next level, and what we see here are a couple of minor suggestions that will hopefully keep his swing progressing.
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Jimmy Walker has made some significant changes for the better in his swing in recent years, although his penchant for pulling his head back a ton is still present. What has allowed him to improve his ball striking is a slight adjustment in posture to one more out over the balls of his feet, and a much different overall use of the right arm and the wrists in the backswing.
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After teaching for 30 years one thing I can tell you for sure is that the average player is not very good at aiming. Aligning properly for a golf shot is difficult because, unlike shooting a gun or a bow and arrow (or most other activities that require aim) in golf you have to stand to the side of the target line and figure out how to get your body and you club to be square (perpendicular) to that line.
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In this lesson we see an excellent young player with a powerful swing learning to control his wedge shots. Matthew can hit a pitching wedge 150 yards, but is not at his best when trying to flight his short iron shots, and has trouble from any type of in between distances.
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William’s swing reminds me of Hogan (I’m not sure if William has patterned his swing after Ben’s or not), so I take the opportunity in this video to put Hogan’s swing side by side with William’s in order to illustrate what I believe would be a technique change that would help an already excellent move. As we have seen over and over in these online lessons the way the right arm works in the swing is a huge deal
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Peter’s swing is looking better and better. In the first part of this video his left leg is staying bent too long in the forward swing. During the downswing, at left arm 45˚, I want to see the left leg moving out of the way and for Peter it should feel like it’s pulling behind him. Peter’s right arm is driving his left arm out too much and off his chest causing his hands to approach impact higher than I’d like. To improve on this I want his hands to move out from the top but instead of continuing…
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By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
I have said at least a few times in the past that Phil Mickelson has never changed his swing. He has claimed that he has done this and that but his standard pattern has remained the same, and the video has proved it. Recently, however, he has changed teachers and touted a “new plane”, a statement I disagreed with earlier in the year. But, after watching him at the British Open and studying his more recent swings, I now agree with his assessment that he has changed his action significantly for the better, as you will see in this video.
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Erik is definitely making progress with his swing, and here we identify the major issue which, if he can correct it, will significantly improve his mechanics and his ball striking. Erik stands with a flared right foot, which allows him to rotate the right leg and pelvis too much in the backswing. Coupled with an upright stance that does not incorporate much pelvic tilt at address the over rotation and lack of depth cause the left side of the pelvis to move forward and down, which in turn pressures the front of both feet and makes it hard to rotate into the forward swing without driving the right leg up underneath him.
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