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Jordan is a good player and wants to compete at a high level as an amateur, and as you can see he is a strong, athletic swinger of the club. His goal in coming for help was to learn about his swing and to see if he could improve his overall ball striking, especially with the irons under pressure.
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This is a series of lessons that begins in July 2013 to present and will continue as long as new lessons occur. Peter is a fellow PGA professional who played the South American tour (Tour De Las Americas) for 5 years and Golden Bear Tour (Mini Tour) 5 years 1997-2001. I asked Peter, and he was gracious enough, to comment on his lessons and give everyone some insight on what he went through to get to where he is now. The hope is that anyone watching and reading can be encouraged to keep working as they witness what can be accomplished.
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Nick is the son of Mark Cammarene, a PGA Professional working in the Palm Beach, Florida area. Nick works at Jonathan’s Landing, another nice club in the same area, and is contemplating making a career in the golf business. Working in the business is way more fun when you’re a good player, and Nick was struggling when Mark decided to bring him down. This is Nick’s second lesson, and while he was hitting it much better he was still struggling with control of his longer clubs.
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Here are a few things we can all learn from watching Jordan Spieth and Danny Willett putt at the Masters. Spieth has proven himself to have taken over from Tiger Woods as the best putter on the planet, and Willett putted like a genius on Sunday at Augusta to win his first major.
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If you’ve been with the website for any length of time you have seen this swing analyzed before, and as usual it is one of the best I work with. Connor’s ball striking has improved over time and he is well on his way to being a consistent winner in the college ranks, but is still hampered by a tendency to block a shot to the right every now and then at inopportune moments. In this video I focus on something that I struggle with in my own swing, and as I try to work through my issues now that I have more physical mobility I have a better eye for the problem.
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I couldn’t resist doing this comparison as the two are hitting the same shot on the same hole with the same fixed camera from almost the exact same spot. They both hit incredible pressure iron shots, with Spieth going pretty much right at the flag and Willett favoring a bit more of a right to left trajectory. As with any comparison there are similarities (which we could all take note of and try to emulate as these are two of the best on the planet) and some striking differences. I always find these examinations to be interesting and educational. Enjoy.
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This is another video showing me working out problems in my swing. My biggest issue over the last few years has been my driver and I firmly believe that a big part of my problem has been my inability to deepen my right hip enough to keep the left side of my pelvis from moving forward as I reach transition, which in turn keeps me too heavy on the front of the left foot and unable to clear the left side of my pelvis enough to be able to “get around” on the ball and have the swing exit on plane.
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Nick is an aspiring club professional working in New Hampshire in the summer who comes down to Florida to see me about once a year, which is not optimum but certainly better than not coming at all. He, like a lot of the good players you see on the website, has a fluid and athletic swing with technique problems that keep him from hitting the ball with consistent contact and direction.
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Peter is doing a nice job of right loading, keeping in the box, and has a good transition sequence. The first things I see are his hands not releasing early enough with the driver causing a slight downward strike on the ball. His rehearsal swing is looking great but the full swing is getting a bit crossed at the top, this being caused by the right arm getting behind him at the top of the backswing. The most important issue to address here is; the high approach in-to-out path with a late release as that combination spells trouble.
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In this lesson you will see Phil over-doing some of the things we have discussed in his first two lessons, which I think is a very good thing as changes are rarely made unless the player exaggerates new ideas and feeling. Phil’s trigger movement here is a major deepening of the pelvis, but as he loads he drops down and back into his heels and his head backs away from the original forehead line.
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