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The Brandel Watch

By Wayne | blog

I feel as though I am doing a great disservice to everyone by not paying more attention to our man Brandel Chamblee and his incessantly negative commentary regarding Tiger Woods, Sean Foley, teaching in general, and whatever other subjects he might stumble upon. The fact is that I don’t have time to watch The Golf Channel when Brandel is on, so I am appealing to the WDGLC members to send me clips of Brandel when you catch him saying something that you think I might find interesting and worthy of my own comment and/or rebuttal. Chamblee has no counterpoint to…

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The P.A.T. Project: Student Lesson: CJ D’Arco Part 1

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

This should really be an interesting series of lessons so I encourage you to watch the progression. CJ needs to pass his Player Ability Test (PAT) in order to continue his quest to become a Class-A PGA Professional. The scoring requirement does not seem that daunting (the needed score is around 156 or so) unless you are not that good and you don’t play in tournaments because of that very fact. Now, you might ask why someone who wasn’t a good golfer would want to be a PGA Professional, and it would be a good question. Actually, a better question…

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Student Lesson: Zach Verses Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

I’ve been working with Zach for some time and we thought we were getting some good progression with his swing, but as he got closer to the time he was going to get back to competing he began to regress a bit and return to some of his old habits. Zach is tremendously strong and flexible and produces a lot of power for a smallish frame. His main problem is control, and we have concentrated on getting the shaft not to cross at the top in order to simplify his downswing and improve his approach to impact. He produces a…

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Wayne D: Swing Self-Analysis

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I actually had some time to practice today so I took a few pictures and did this video. It took me an hour to hit 100 balls, alternating between the new drill I posted this week (Takeaway-stop/ then finish and hit) and hitting full shots with no stop. My main goal was to stop lifting in the middle portion of my backswing, and stopping at shaft parallel to the ground allows me to concentrate on starting from there by driving my right hip back, flexing more into my right leg, and “catching” the backswing with a 45 degree drive off…

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Online Student: Kerry Ondrovik

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Here is an excellent swing that lacks what I would call “dynamics”, meaning that watching the wrist and hand action I could see that it just wasn’t’ going to produce the kind of speed that the rest of the mechanics would seem to almost guarantee. The hands and wrists are hugely important elements to the production of speed (among other things) and my advice to Kerry here is to free up his hands by cupping the left wrist a bit at the top (a la Webb Simpson) and then creating more of an angle between his left arm and the…

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Drills: The Takeaway-Stop: then Finish and Hit Drill

By Wayne | Videos: Faults, Fixes and Drills

I created this drill to help me attack a major issue in my own swing, which is also an issue a number of the web site members have. This concerns the move required to load and compress in the back-swing while keeping the hips nice and deep creating room for the right arm in front of the body in the forward swing. I found this drill actually helped me create a greater amount of “catch” and I started hitting it further than I ever have before. If rising up or not compressing in the back-swing is an issue in your…

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Hallberg, Mast Playing Nicely at British Senior

By Wayne | blog

In case you hadn’t noticed, the two Senior Tour players I have been working with are playing extremely well at Turnberry in the British Senior Open. Dick Mast continues to amaze at age 61, firing 66-73 to finish T-4 after the 2nd round. Gary Hallberg played one of the most amazing rounds in tournament and Tour history by firing a 63 on a blustery day in which only one other player, Fred Couples, broke 70, and Gary’s round was 5 better than Freddie’s 68. That is unheard of stuff, especially at a major.   Anyway, just wanted to make sure…

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Student Lesson: Jared Kenworthy

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Jared has been a member of the web site for a while now and has created a nice series of videos that he posted in the forum documenting all the hard work he’s done on his swing, check them out if you haven’t seen them yet. Jared used the information on this site, a few online lessons, a lot of motivation, some self-analysis and plain old hard work to build himself a very nice swing. In this video Jared actually made the trip out from Kansas for business and decided to drop by Woodmont for an in-person lesson, which was…

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Student Lesson: Justin Duffie Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Justin has been working with me for around 2 years now and is the most improved player I teach on a regular basis. He was a 13 when he came to me and with his swing as it was he was short-gaming it to shoot around that. He is now a 5 and hits the ball so much better it is pretty astounding. His swing technique has improved consistently (not that I haven’t had to talk him down from the ledge a couple of times) and here you will see us working on another major aspect of his swing in…

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Golf is a Crazy Game, and People Never Seem to Learn

By Wayne | blog

Wow. That’s really all you could say watching Adam Scott’s implosion on the last 4 holes to lose the Open Championship and his best chance for his first major. What a big deal that is, winning your first major. It’s like a huge monkey off your back, a defining moment that promises more great things for the future (although there are many one-time major winners for whom that promise never came to be). Sure, no guarantees, but you have to get that first one in order to get more and be associated with the game’s greatest players. Ernie Els played…

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