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Lesson of the Week: Austin Lyons- Working on a Fuller Swing and Better Impact

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Online Students

Austin has made great improvements in his swing technique over the 10 years we have been working together (1-3 times a year, 4 hours over 2 days), and each time he comes I try to deal with the swing he brings and give him things to work on until I see him again. In this lesson I note right away that his swing looks too short, and his impact is still way too flippy. The shortness of his swing seems to be a result of his lower body interrupting the backswing too soon, which is something I try to…

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Online Lesson: Joe Flood- Needing More Forearm Rotation in the Backswing and a Quieter Trigger

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Online Students

Hi Wayne, Making steady gains. You have given me about 8-10 items to work on and I think I’ve made a bit of progress on all except a flatter left wrist at the top and coming down. In addition, I’m still trying to get the hips more cleared at impact with more work to do there…. Question does my left arm look too upright at the top? I always start each lesson with the “swing you bring”, meaning that while it is interesting to look for progress based on the last lesson it is more important to focus on what…

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Max Homa Swing Analysis: Classic Form Begs to be Emulated

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

There is nothing about this swing that you wouldn’t want to copy, even if you don’t have Max’s 32-year-old, 6’2”, 180 lb. body (my guess is that he has put on 20 more pounds of muscle since the PGA Tour did his profile). Everything about this is quality, from the grip to the stance and posture, and then to the effortless looking swing that produces average drives of 306 yards. A few things that are a bit different from what I might teach are the locked looking arms at address and the lack of rightward head movement in the backswing,…

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Online Lesson: Patrick Cunningham- Good Swing Needs Shape Change

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Message to Wayne Hello Wayne. I’ve been watching your stuff for a long time. I know I stand up on the backswing and pull my head off the ball and push my hips toward the ball at impact. I would like to do the “magic move” but have a hard time to feel it. I know I could really improve my iron strikes. I hit the longer clubs, especially the driver, well – of course. It’s no surprise that Patrick hits his fairway woods and driver better than his irons: his in to out path is much more conducive to…

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Online Lesson: Jaime Gylan PGA- Better Posture Would Help an Already Excellent Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

I’ve known Jaime since he was in high school (that was a while ago), and I’m always proud when one of my former students becomes a highly respected teaching professional. Jaime, like I did in my prime, works hard on his game and would like to start seeing better results in his club professional tournaments. He has always had a nice swing, and here I make some simple suggestions to try out to see if we can get it to work better. I put him side by side with Charl Schwartzel, partly because of his grip (I think it’s one…

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Online Lesson Follow-Up: Victor Herak

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

It’s always nice to see an online lesson make a difference right away in a student’s swing. Here you see Victor take 4 suggestions from his first lesson, incorporate them, and send in a new batch of swings with a much-improved impact. If you go back to the previous lesson you will note that I wanted Victor to center his setup, move the ball position a ball or two more back in his stance, get a bit deeper and more extended with the right arm in the backswing, and focus on adding left wrist flexion sooner in the forward swing.…

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Online Lesson: Brandon Deggins PGA- Swing Shape and Hip Depth

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

My name is Brandon Deggins. I am an Assistant Golf Professional at TPC River Highlands. I am mostly self-taught. I was a decent player once upon a time, but that was 6 years ago and 20lbs lighter. Most of my golf now is a sporadic 4-5-hole loop when a member asks or late in the afternoon after my shift. I typically shoot anywhere from mid to high 70’s. However, I do not do anything spectacularly well. I struggle with consistency with the driver. With irons, I do not compress the ball near as well as I should. The miss with…

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Payne Stewart Swing Analysis: Old School Swing Should Have Led to a Long Career

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Payne Stewart would be 63 (born January 30, 1957) had he not tragically died in a plane crash when he was 42 years old. His golf swing was a throwback to the days of Bobby Jones when any thought of restriction was nonexistent. Payne had more backswing hip turn and more total lateral movement (off the ball in the backswing, then forward in the downswing) than anyone on the PGA Tour today. In fact, no one is even close. You hear many words and phrases to describe great rhythm and tempo such as “fluid” or “syrupy” , “smooth”, effortless” etc.,…

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Online Lesson: Victor Herak- Backswing Extension and Left Wrist Flexion Earlier in Downswing

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Message to Wayne Hi Wayne – Some context: I’m 63, play about 10 rounds per year, hcap about 8-ish. Though not playing much now I still like to work on my swing. Re swing: I get roll-y a bit in takeaway and get laid-off/flat-ish at top, and for me it seems to help me get the club down in front of me better When I get the club outside my hands on the takeaway better and get the shaft more down the line at the top it seems that the club then gets coming in from too much inside…

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86 Major Championship Winners: Left Wrist Position at the Top of the Backswing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

With seemingly more players winning on the PGA Tour with flat to bowed left wrist angles at the top I thought it would be interesting to go through my accumulated model swings to see how all the major winners I have film of looked at that position. I counted 86 major champions (I stuck to only the men) from Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen up to Collin Morikawa and Bryson DeChambeau. Here is what I found. One note of importance, and I will go over this in the video, is my opinion of what these categories of wrist positions look…

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