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Tommy Gainey’s Golf Swing Analysis

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

If you were a decent player and you ran into Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey at the local muni and he offered to play you and give you a couple a side (this is after you saw his swing from a distance) I have no doubt you would jump on the opportunity. You would, of course, have your ass handed to you, as this guy, as awkward as he seems both in appearance and with his swing, can flat out play. In the video you will see that I compare Gainey to 3 players, Trevino, Hogan, and Graeme McDowell. Gainey’s funky…

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Steve Stricker Golf Swing Analysis

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

A few years back Steve Stricker was at an apparent dead-end in his golfing career. Through hard work and persistence he has come back to become even better than he was before his fall, now seemingly in the hunt almost every week. A few things are striking about Stricker’s action: one is the out and around swing shape, with the hands and arms moving away from the body in the takeaway. Another is exceptionally quiet nature of his wrists in transition. The third is his ability to control the ball even as the club approaches impact from under his right…

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Swing Analysis: Hunter Mahan at the Ryder Cup: Anatomy of a Pitch Shot Under Pressure

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

This video looks at the execution of a simple pitch shot, made anything but simple by the extreme pressure of the moment. It is the 17th hole of the last match of the Ryder Cup. The outcome of the entire affair rests on this last 2-ball. Hunter Mahan is two-down, and needs an up-and-down to possibly extend the match, as it is certain that Graeme McDowell will make no worse than bogey, and being already two- up, win the match if Mahan makes bogey. Mahan has just hit an exceptional pitch on the previous hole, one more difficult than this…

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Moe Norman and the Problem with “Feel” and “Real”

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I saw Moe Norman hit balls twice, both times speaking to groups of golfers about what he was doing and how he was doing it, and I thought it would be interesting, given the myth concocted around him and his alleged ball striking prowess, if I told the story of my encounter. When I got out of college I quit golf for a time (I had lost my game miserably my senior year at LSU after being a First Team All-American my junior year), but ended up playing again as a amateur, qualifying for the 1981 US Open and turning…

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