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Lesson of the Week: Justin Duffie Part 4

We have seen Justin’s swing improve by leaps and bounds over time but I thought this was an interesting lesson because you don’t usually see drill swings produce exactly the changes you are looking for. When you have spent most of your golfing life swinging poorly as Justin has there are things late in the swing that you just aren’t going to have any clue about doing correctly. Now, however, he is in such better position approaching impact that he has a chance to drive his right side through the impact area and perhaps produce better contact and some sustain…

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The Masters: Why We Watch

By Wayne | blog

I was thinking about why the Masters is such a must-see event, and I came up with this huge list of compelling reasons, which made me realize that hey, that is precisely the reason we can’t miss it. It literally has everything that makes golf the great game that it is, plus the familiarity that can only come by holding the event on the same course every year. It is the first major of the year, and after a long cold winter the anticipation has grown. We want to see the great ones go head to head and we have…

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The Golf Posture Pod: A Great Teaching and Training Tool

By Wayne | Videos: Faults, Fixes and Drills

“In the box” is a phrase I have coined to highlight the importance of having the hips stay deep during the swing. If the head stays out over the ball the deepening of the hips produces an increase in posture during the swing, which means that the head of the golfer will lower both in the backswing and in the first part of the downswing. The Golf Posture Pod is a device that allows you to train this movement while visually measuring whether or not you are being successful at your attempt to deepen the hips during the swing. If…

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TP&C: Ben Silverman Part 2

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities

This video encompasses 2 ½ days of work with one of my most talented students, young (22) Canadian Ben Silverman. Ben is currently playing the NGA (formerly Hooters) tour, and is doing nicely. He has won multiple times already on a lesser mini-tour known as the Minor League Tour in South Florida, and is doing nicely on the NGA. His last tournament was a struggle as he made the cut and finished in the top 25 but was reduced to hitting sizable draws and felt incapable of effectively working the ball left to right. I was not surprised to hear…

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Tiger at Bay Hill: Back to #1

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the changes Tiger has made in the last 3 or so years. People seem disbelieving when Tiger proclaims that a serious swing change or what turns out to be a whole pattern change takes a relatively huge amount of time to implement and then trust on the golf course. This one has taken a few years to really kick in, and now it would seem that he is back to his dominating self. It’s pretty amazing that the guy can continually reinvent himself with different techniques, and we get…

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The P.A.T. Project: Student Lesson: CJ D’Arco Part 4

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

As you know if you have watched the previous videos of CJ’s swing, we are attempting to get through the Player Ability Test for the PGA of America, which is a must if you are going to continue on in your quest to become a PGA Member. Most of the requirements to be a PGA Professional are book learning (you have to attend 3 different weeks of “business school” and pass tests on the information presented, as well as completing extensive course work in workbook form), but one requirement that presents a major hurdle for any aspiring pro who is…

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Lesson of the Week: Jim Farina

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Jimmy is an avid golfer and a long- time member of the website who has sent me his swing for analysis a number of times in the past as well as driven down from upstate NY to spend time with me at Woodmont. I recently went to South Florida to spend a couple days with Jimmy at his clubs in Jupiter, Jupiter Hills Golf Club and Tequesta Country Club. We played each day then worked on the range down in Boca, and as you will see Jimmy has worked hard and made some significant progress with his swing. Jimmy’s…

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Online Students: Derek Cribb Part 3

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Derek has made some significant changes in his swing as evidenced by the side by side I use to begin the video. Derek’s first batch of swings showed very nice movement and sequence, and he has the gift of lag and a forward leaning shaft, which means the improvements he can make will be more mechanical in the sense of his placement and direction of the arms, hands and shaft. My suggestion was to eliminate the “pinched” right arm, first by relaxing the arms at address, then by allowing the right arm to bend and get deeper in the early…

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Swing Analysis: Tom Purtzer

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

It is a fascination among golfers to choose the player or players who would be considered to have the “best” swing on the Tour at any particular time. Back in the 40’s and 50’s the argument would have been between Hogan and Snead. In the 60’s both Palmer and Nicklaus had somewhat different looking moves and you might find an argument for someone like Gene Littler. In the 70’s the classic move belonged to Tom Weiskopf. Moving into the 80’s the guy most mentioned would be Tom Purtzer, the subject of our analysis here, while moving into the 90’s it…

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Lesson of the Week: Justin Duffie Part 3

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

You’ve seen Justin before, and you probably have not forgotten the lesson video as it is one of the most extreme transformations in golf swing technique by an experienced player that you would have ever seen. Still, as far as he has come, we still have a ways to go, which is a testament to just how bad it was when he first came to see me at Woodmont. He has not relaxed from his search for better technique, so we keep at it two hours at a time and work relentlessly to get his right arm to move in…

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