I don’t think it would be reaching to say that every player who spends time on the PGA Tour by earning exempt status is an excellent player. Some obviously have better careers than others. Some have fine careers without winning, some win then disappear. Some have picturesque swings, some have odd looking moves that might […]
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I have been teaching Clayton since he was about 14 years old, about 9 years now. He won numerous junior tournaments and played in two U.S. Amateurs as a teenager. He pretty much wasted his college career (he did win the Cardinal Amateur a few years back during the summer) but is now a professional […]
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If you missed the first installment of the P.A.T. (Player Ability Test) Project with CJ D’Arco you should know that CJ is a young aspiring assistant pro at a neighboring club who, in order to gain status in the PGA of America, must pass the playing test by shooting somewhere in the neighborhood of 78-78 […]
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One of the things I have to do after watching a swing and looking at exactly what it is doing (although now it seems that the opinion is growing that without a Trackman no one can really see fully what is going on) is to try to come up with reasons for the movements that […]
Continue readingYou might think it harsh for me to use the word “lunatic” when describing young Italian star Matteo Manassero’s coach Alberto Birnaghi. However, when you read the following recap of a recent Golf Digest article “The Quest For More Distance” I think you may reconsider your judgment. “Matteo Manassero is still a teenager, yet […]
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Dick Mast is now 41st on the Champions Tour money list with over $285,000, and you can see why he has had his best year ever as you watch these swings. He likes to move the ball both ways (and has a straight shot as well), so I filmed him doing one of each, and […]
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I was surprised on Friday afternoon to see the name “Len Mattiace” in my book for an hour lesson Saturday, since most Tour players would probably call me directly first to see if I had extended time available, and probably wouldn’t schedule the lesson through the shop like a normal person would. As it turned […]
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With Tiger and Rory playing together at the Barclays there were a number of holes where they hit similar shots on camera. Here we look at an iron shot on the par 5 7th, after hitting drives of 330 (Tiger) and 335 (Rory). The camera angles are quite similar, so we get a nice chance […]
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This video doesn’t need much explanation. Rory McIlroy is hitting an iron shot from a fairway bunker, and luckily the camera is stable so we can accurately assess any elevation change in his body by drawing a line on top of his head. In his swing analysis Faldo remarks about Rory’s “steady head” and how […]
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Stephen has an excellent looking swing that could really use the compression movement in backswing to add power and to bring the hands to impact closer to the body, which would help make the squaring of the clubface less problematical than with his high approach. If you look at Stephen’s upper trunk turn in the […]
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