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Hip Depth Part 3: More Great Swings Staying in the Box

I guess we will call this “Hip Box” week now that I’ve done 3 videos of top players who demonstrate similar patterns of hip and pelvic movement during the swing. There are variations of course, but in most cases we see added right hip depth almost immediately in the backswing with most players maintaining right knee flex, then a “crunch” or “dig” move that utilizes the ground to push the waist back and bend it forward as the lower body drives forward to shift pressure from left to right and rotates to get the hips well open by impact. I…

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Hip Depth Part 2: More examples and Details on How to Accomplish It

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

In this video I give more examples of great players who maintained or increased their hip depth during their swings. I first noticed this phenomenon about 25 years ago when I was studying that great DTL view of Hogan in 1947. Growing up I was an exceptionally good player (1st Team All American in 1979) but my swing was modeled after the greats of the era, Watson, Weiskopf, Miller, Nicklaus, etc., all of whom swung relatively upright and drove their lower bodies well forward through impact while keeping their heads back in the classic (unfortunately) “reverse C” finish. I first…

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Hip Depth: Watch Tour Players Deepen in the Backswing and Stay Deep in the Forward Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Anyone who has watched my videos over the years knows that I always comment on the “Hip Box” that I draw from the back of the butt and from the front of the knee line in the down the line view. Very few amateurs accomplish what the Tour players do regularly: get deeper in the backswing (the right cheek moving back behind the butt line while maintaining knee flex and keeping the head out on the forehead line) and then staying deep in the forward swing, creating room for the right arm to pass through impact unimpeded. Not every Tour…

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Dustin Johnson Swing Analysis: What Makes Him So Good?

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Dustin Johnson is the best player in the world right now without question. There is no one else with his firepower who is as good from 100 yards and in, and when you average over 315 yards off the tee and hit the ball fairly straight that means a lot of birdies are going to be on the card. Here we have a nice face on and down the line view courtesy of the boys at TaylorMade where we can see how DJ uses his freakishly athletic body to do things with his golf swing that others just aren’t capable…

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Carlos Ortiz Swing Analysis: Super Aggressive Hip Rotation Helps Clear Right Arm

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

As I mention in the video, I played 9 holes with Carlos in 2017 in a group with Tony Romo, who I was teaching at the time, and Jordan Spieth, a good friend of Tony’s who was in between Fed Ex Cup tournaments and ranked #2 in the world at the time. I was obviously paying more attention to Tony and Jordan, but Carlos hit it right up with them and looked to have a strong game. He finished 24th on the Korn Ferry Tour money list in 2018 and took advantage by winning over a million dollars in 2019 and…

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Online Lesson: Sim Allan- Looking for More Right-Load and a More Active Lower Body

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Sim has made great strides since his first lesson (this is his 3rd) and I encourage you to watch the previous ones. I focus here only on his face on view as there is a lot to talk about there and his down the line view is quite good and not the real issue. The main problem I see is Sim’s tendency to drift his upper body over his lower in transition instead of using the ground to drive the pelvis with the 3 attributes I talk about all the time, depth, lateral, and rotation. Feeling the stretch in the…

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Bryson DeChambeau vs. Jack Nicklaus – Side by Side Observations

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

It seems like an obvious comparison to make between the two power hitters, Bryson the new U.S. Open champ and Nicklaus of course the Greatest of All Time with 18 majors. Both exhibit the wide arced backswing and tremendous windup you would expect, along with a perfectly sequenced transition and free release through impact. They differ greatly at address as Nicklaus utilizes relaxed, hanging arms while Bryson has his arms famously extended almost in line with his shaft and elbows locked. In watching them side by side we see elements of what may be called a more classic swing versus…

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Lesson of the Week: Abe Cohen – Downswing Issues Lead to Fat Shots

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Lesson of the Week

Abe is a new golfer who has succumbed to the allure of the game and wants to hit the ball better. He is plagued by hitting well behind the ball with his irons, and as anyone who has suffered with a spell of fat shots knows it is a problem that must be fixed for there to be any joy in a round of golf. Abe’s first batch of swings illustrate a few obvious problems (obvious to me and to veteran swing analyzers but of course not at all to someone just learning the basic concepts of hitting the ball…

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Online Lesson Follow-Up: Justin Miller

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Greatly Improved Lower Body Work I don’t think the average golfer understands how hard it is to change a swing. People come for a lesson, and when they see that they make a multitude of mistakes they think that doing one or maybe two things will be the answer, and that it shouldn’t take that long. When they come back for a follow-up and swear that their swing will look totally different and it doesn’t, they can only take that for so long before they give up and move on to another teacher or a different idea they found on…

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