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Online Students: Neil Zhu

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

It’s always an honor to be chosen to view and analyze the swing of a promising young player, and Neil Zhu certainly fits that bill. Neil is (I think) 10 years old in this video and already possessing the attributes of an excellent player. Neil’s father, Jason, was watching some of my swing analysis videos and thought that it would be a nice thing to get my opinion regarding Neil’s swing. My suggestions here would be the same if Neil had been 15 or 25 years old. The way his father implements them is another matter, and I recommend that…

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Swing Comparison: Lee Trevino and Tommy Gainey

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I predicted when I did my first swing analysis of Tommy Gainey that he would win on Tour, and sure enough, he did, shooting 60 in the final round last week to win by a shot. I went back and looked at the video and saw that I didn’t have a good face on view of Gainey, and when I got a load of the Biz Hub swing you see here I was floored and just had to do this video. No one has more forward lean and sustain than Gainey, and it immediately reminded me of Trevino, for obvious…

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Online Students: Noah Wempe

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

The word I use a number of times in this lesson is “subtle”. Noah has what would appear to the eye to be a technically sound swing. Without a proper analysis (which means video with a stable camera and shutter speed along with the V1 software technology) it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to pick out the right arm and sequence issues that I talk about here. Of course, these are my ideas and preferences as to what proper right arm movement and pivot sequence are, and as I see it Noah suffers from a combination of the…

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Swing Analysis: Zach Johnson

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Another example of a not-so-big guy doing great things on the PGA Tour is Zach Johnson. Here we see how a great player works with and around an unconventionally strong grip. Johnson maintains the bend, or “cup” in the back of the left wrist all through the backswing and well into the downswing, which keeps the face relatively open considering his grip is just about a 4-knuckler. At address he starts with his hands quite low, which makes the wrist feel more comfortable and allows him to accentuate that wrist bend as he makes his swing. He planes the club…

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What is the best way to teach golf?: An Interesting Conversation

By Wayne | blog

Chris: The fastest way to get good at golf is to focus on the target and try to hit it while constantly making adjustments and trying to figure out what works for you. You learn much faster that way than having some teaching pro hammering swing thoughts into your head or repeating the same movement over and over again. Learning golf is about making mistakes and finding an individual solution, not about repeating a swing method over and over again. It´s not about hitting some lines on a video screen, it´s about being able to hit golf shots on the…

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Swing Analysis: Paul Lawrie

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

It’s always inspirational to see a guy who pretty much disappears for 9 years come back to regain his top form and win. Lawrie had 3 fine years after his British Open win, then didn’t win again until last year, when he won twice, and then did it again this year, making the Ryder Cup to boot. He seems like a super nice guy, and you can only imagine the persistence and perseverance it took to hang in there and keep working at his game.   We see here a solid, fairly conventional (in a good sense) action, with a…

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The P.A.T. Project: Student Lesson: CJ D’Arco Part 3

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

The lesson you will view here was only 2 days before CJ attempted the 36 hole PAT (player ability test), and I believe that given the progress I saw in these 2 hours if he had had a few more days to familiarize himself with the changes and boil down the swing thoughts to a usable few he would have made it. As it was, CJ shot 80-76 (no birdies, no doubles) and missed by just 2 shots.   If you go back and watch the first two PAT Project videos you will see clearly that CJ has a serious…

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Online Students: Jeff Plunkett

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

When a student goes to see a teacher they are going to find out what that teacher prefers right away. In Jeff’s case I prefer the right arm to have space, or “carry”, in the first part of the swing, so that when the shaft is parallel to the ground the hands have moved away from the right leg by at least a few inches, if not more. The right arm is not staying tight or straight, however, as this would hyper extend the left arm, but rather is soft and bending a bit until the left arm reaches parallel…

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Wayne’s Greatest 3-Minute Lesson

By Wayne | Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras

  Wayne’s Greatest 3-Minute Lesson

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Online Students: Ray Davis

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

If you have been watching these lesson videos it should be apparent by now just how important the takeaway is to the overall pattern of a golf swing. The more I see the right arm lock up and stay overly straight in the first few feet of the swing the easier it is to predict the resulting pattern that emerges, ending with an approach to impact that can be both high and in-to-out with the either the driver or the irons. Ray is another classic example of such a pattern.   The good news is that Ray has an excellent…

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