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Swing Analysis: Francesco Molinari

This is a truly solid looking swing. The backswing mechanics are impeccable, with a pivot driven takeaway, solid leg action, on plane club movement, and excellent wrist and hand movement keeping the face nice and neutral throughout. The surprising thing is the lack of dynamics, meaning no lowering and relatively little wrist cock. However, the forward swing begins in sequence with a nice compression into the ground and plenty of lateral push while the wrist cock that was gained in the backswing (never more than 90 degrees to the left arm) is retained beautifully past the ball. He also exhibits…

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Swing Analysis: Wayne D. at Liberty National: Focus on Right Hip Movement

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Over the years there are probably only a couple of people that I have taken advice from regarding my swing, my old friend Richard Kress and my best bud Mark Diamond. Richard is not a teaching pro but is a good player and a seeker of the highest order (he’s taken lessons from every teaching pro you could name) and has worked with me on his swing while playing with me and watching me play since the mid 80’s. I met Mark while playing the Goosie Space Coast mini-tour in the early 80’s and we have been friends ever since,…

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Wayne answers Hardy disciple’s comments on One Plane video.

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Mtwdwrd wrote: Wayne, I don’t know if you have some underlying insecurity or jealousy that leads you to have to criticize others, but it makes you look small. You can disagree all you want, but your opinion isn’t the golf gospel. Look at how many of your videos are to prove someone else is wrong. There was a thread on you over at golfwrx where a number of others feel the same way. You’re using video of one of the instructors and reading from Mr. Hardy’s book, but the pictures in his book are more accurate to what he is…

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Online Students: Dean Dunn-Rankin

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Dean has taken a couple of online lessons and has (according to Dean) improved quite a bit. Here we see that we are getting down to the major issue in his swing, which is that his swing pattern is arms away in the backswing, hands dropping back and down in transition while the legs work underneath him and out toward the ball. This would be a big change to accomplish without hands on work, but it is certainly worth a try. My suggestions include a deeper backswing so that an “out” move with the hands wouldn’t feel so “over the…

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Ryder Cup 2012: Much Ado About Very Little

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There is an inexorable urge among the media to assess blame for the United States’ loss in this year’s Ryder Cup. They just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter who played whom in what position. It doesn’t matter what guys were picked by the captains. What matters is that match play is an entirely one- on -one, personal thing, and the European team beat the Americans, straight up, fair and square. As the Accenture Match Play tournament has shown, at the Tour level anybody can beat anybody, and the overall level of one’s play is not necessarily highlighted by a…

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Online Students: David Ferrell

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Here we see one of the most common ways to get the clubhead “stuck” behind the hands in the approach to impact. David starts with the “triangle” look at address, which always looks tight to me, and I encourage him to go the “home plate” address (a la Hogan) where both arms are bent at the elbow and only loosely tied to the body. David’s swing doesn’t show any effects of this tightness until left arm parallel in the backswing, where he begins to slide to the right and lift up. His lack of contact with the ground makes it…

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Match Play and the Ryder Cup: It’s Personal

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I am often asked by golfers who compete about the difference between match play and stroke play, and the question becomes all the more relevant with the Ryder Cup upon us again. There are really only 4 important match play tournaments for Tour pros: the World Golf Championship tournament at the beginning of the year, the limited field World Match Play, the President’s Cup, and the Ryder Cup. One thing is for sure: all the guys will tell you they want to win all their matches, which means they have to beat the guys they are playing against, and only…

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Online Students: Matthew Kontoginais

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Here’s a very sound swing by a powerful guy that could be jacked up to produce freakish distance and dialed down for control by freeing it up in the backswing with wider turn produced by greater overall trunk movement, initiated by a wider move with the upper body and an almost immediate deepening of the right hip. In order to feel this wider takeaway (more “carry” with both arms) I would first have him soften his arms at address to look more like “home plate” (elbows bent) than like the proverbial “triangle”. By concentrating on rotating his spine and including…

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The Myth of Hogan and the One Plane Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

The ascent of the “One Plane Swing”, Jim Hardy’s catchy name for his teaching preferences, is a fairly recent occurrence, coming after Hardy’s success with Peter Jacobsen, Tom Pernice, Olin Browne and other Tour players. Perhaps the most successful of the “one-planers” is Matt Kuchar, who is taught not by Hardy but by Chris O’Connell, a Hardy disciple. I happen to like Kuchar’s swing, and have no problem with anyone teaching what they believe to be viable ways to hit a golf ball, especially when there is evidence that it works, at least for some (which is always the case…

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Student Lesson: Joey Lane

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

You have seen Joey before, and what you find here is more or less a repeat of the last lesson I posted. Joey is a very good junior (he won the Optimist International Junior Championship this year at the Champions course in Palm Beach, Fla. against an international field) but his excellent play has come about fairly recently and his swing is prone to regressing to old habits when he plays in multiple tournaments without getting a check-up. Here he is back to pinching his right arm in the backswing, which sets a pattern for him that ends up with…

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