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Si Woo Kim: Swing Analysis-Classic Form

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

SW Kim’s swing is fun for me to look at as it demonstrates many of the items I teach regularly to any level of student. It starts with the set-up, nice and clean and angular without being tense. I often see players overdoing their attempt to have “good posture” by pulling the shoulder blades back and tensing up the lower back muscles, a sure recipe for a fatigued back and possible injury. The most important part of the set up is bending from the hips so that the pelvis is tilted and supported by the abdominal and oblique muscles. Kim’s…

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Harris English Swing Analysis: Great Model for Taller, Stronger Players

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

After 3 poor years making less than a million dollars, English has righted the ship and has been playing great golf for the last 2, culminating in his win in Hawaii in a playoff over Joaquin Niemann. In this video I start by noting some major differences in his driver setup from 2014 to now, looking taller with his hands higher and his weight (pressure) more toward the balls of his feet, changes that I recently suggested to Brad Faxon. English has always looked ultra -smooth swinging the club, but it does appear that he has slowed his backswing even…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley- Trying not to Cross the Line at the Top

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Playing For Money

Matt has been wrestling with this backswing issue from the 1st time I saw him some years ago. If we didn’t think that it contributed to his inconsistent ball striking, we wouldn’t bother trying to change it. Matt goes back and forth between getting the club stuck behind his hands at P6 and sometimes approaching from out to in. In this case he is hitting too many weak cuts and is still concerned about the way the club arrives at the top and changes direction into the downswing. Many of my students have issues with over-straightening the right leg in…

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Lesson of the Week: Mike Haase PGA- Wanting Answers about Lower Body Movement

By Wayne | PGA Professionals , Videos , Videos: Lesson of the Week

Mike flew down to Florida from Illinois in the hope that I could answer some long-standing questions he had about the way he used his lower body during his swing. I could see right away that his concerns were well founded when I watched his right glute lose depth in the backswing and the left side of his pelvis move well forward, almost what could be considered a “death move” that leads to the loss of posture and an inability to rotate effectively through impact. We discussed at length my thoughts on right loading, hip depth, and how the hips…

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What to Look for When Watching Hip Movement from Face On

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

I spend a lot of time discussing and showing how the best players move their hips when observed from the down the line view. In fact, if you go back just a few weeks you’ll find 3 consecutive videos on hip depth and how players who I think have superior technique use the DTL “hip box”. But as I tell students who send in online videos for review from only DTL, watching from face on is every bit as important and telling as from DTL and in fact a full analysis is impossible with only one view available. In this…

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Lesson of the Week: Paul Oglesby PGA- Overcoming 5 Back Surgeries

By Wayne | PGA Professionals , Videos , Videos: Lesson of the Week

Paul may be the first player I’ve taught who has had more back operations than I have, and it shows in the swing he brought with him when he visited me in Boca for an in-person lesson. Paul has an excellent record as a player having competed in the British Open and two U.S. Opens in the 1980’s as well as winning the Pennsylvania State Open in 1994, but the golf swing is tough enough without dealing with constant pain and stiffness, and the last 20 years have brought diminishing returns as a player although Paul has continued his teaching…

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John Lamendola- Working on Right Loading and Width

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

John has been my most prolific online lesson taker for over 5 years, and in this video, we get a rare chance to work face to face. John has a great setup in his home in New York, with a basement golf room that sports all the bells and whistles, and he almost exclusively films there and sends swings to me for analysis and advice. We have done some nice work with the online lessons, but I always prefer to work in person as I can get my hands on the student and move them around to get them to…

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Lesson of the Week: Dave Rasley- Trying to Get Back to the Old Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Trust me when I tell you that Dave was a really good player. The year I qualified for the Senior Open I was 51 years old. I shot 67 and was medalist. At 69 and in 2nd place was Dave, and he is 10 years older than I am. That makes him 73 now and having moved to Arizona he still plays lots of golf. A few years ago, he decided that he would finally fix his short, across the line swing, so he signed up for a series of 10 lessons from a reputable teacher. He told the guy…

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Brad Faxon In Person Lesson with Wayne D – Simplifying The Backswing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

After the online video I sent Brad regarding a new swing he sent to me, his interest was piqued enough to want to make the drive down to Boca from his home at Old Palm in Jupiter for a face to face. Brad has always been interested in trying to figure out how to get the club more on plane at the top and has taken lessons (paid lessons) from many instructors, which, as you can see by his first swings, have been unsuccessful in achieving any lasting results. There is an increasingly popular belief that fixing a backswing is…

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Brad Faxon Swing Analysis: Still Thinking about Uncrossing the Club at the Top

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Every couple of years Brad gets the bug to try to improve his swing and see if he can correct a few things he has seen forever that he feels cause his ball striking to not be a match to his superior short game and putting. I have worked with Brad off and on and every time I get him to plane the club at the top it feels too weird for him to play in competition with it and he goes back to what feels comfortable. In this video I go over some older swings of Brad’s (from the…

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