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Online Lesson: Erik Ludtke- Improving Right Leg Action

I am trying to go deeper and better with squatting and then coming up — trying to use the ground. It’s got a way to go but that is the idea. I don’t like my right leg as I come up on the toe and would rather roll my ankle thru impact. As you will see in the video, Erik is spot on pinpointing a major problem in his swing, early extension with the right leg pushing toward the ball and the left leg getting in the way of his rotation. If you are going to try to get into…

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Online Lesson: Aaron Suarez-Looking for Width Through Right Load and Extension

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Message to Wayne: Hello Wayne I just purchased a lesson. I’m a big fan of your philosophy. I am a big believer that pivot compression allows the right arm and right wrist to retain angles through impact which helps the club from flipping. I used to come in high with the shaft from down the line at impact but have made progress with that. But I just can’t seem to get the down in the backswing and further Down in the forward swing I see with Sergio Hogan player Trevino etc. I always seem to fully straitened right arm and…

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Louie Oosthuizen Swing Analysis: Revered Swing- Underperforming Career

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

After winning the British Open by 7 shots in 2010 everyone figured that Louie would be a top 10 performer and multiple major winner. He has finished 2nd in all 4 majors, which is a feat, but that Open Championship is the only PGA Tour win he has ever had, and that’s with over 180 starts. He is quite consistent year to year (he’s played in 4 President’s Cups) and has amassed earnings of over $20 million, but you must wonder why he hasn’t won more. His swing is one of the most aesthetically pleasing in all of golf. He…

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Online Lesson: Stewie Bruce- Excellent Junior Swing with some Typical Issues

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Stewie hasn’t been playing that long but it’s evident that he is an exceptionally good athlete and has great potential as a golfer. His set up and grip are sound, and the overall plane and sequencing of his swing are excellent. I particularly like how he lags the club and gets his hands well forward heading into impact. The main things I’d like to see Stewie work on are right loading in the backswing with his right arm and shoulder more relaxed at address and then into the takeaway. The tension in Stewie’s right shoulder leads him to pull it…

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From the Vault: the 3rd Round of the 2001 National Club Pro Championship

By Wayne | Videos: From The Vault

One of my good friends and students Sean LeDonne took old VHS tape of my 2001 victory at the CPC and digitized it for me, so I thought I would post it. I had opened with 65-69 and had a 4-shot lead heading into the 3rd round, and this is the Golf Channel coverage of that round minus the commercials. I’d have to say that winning that tournament was the highlight of my career, so you can imagine that I don’t get tired of watching it. The round demonstrates the kind of player I was, always the grinder.

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Rob Palazuelos Part 2 and Part 2 Follow-Up: Part 2: Improved Backswing, Need More Hip Depth in Downswing & Part 2 Follow-up: Continued Improvement

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Both Lesson Number 2 and the follow-up in this post (scroll down to see the follow-up): You can see from the side by side of Rob’s first lesson and this one that he has made drastic improvement in his backswing plane and his right arm movement in the forward swing. By improving the takeaway and adding forearm rotation Rob has gotten the club pointed more left at the top and his right arm in a more “ready” position with his right shoulder less retracted and his upper arm more in front of him. In the forward swing you can see…

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Collin Morikawa Swing Analysis: Great Pivot Movement and Left Wrist Flexion Add Up to an Awesome Impact

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

If you watched the tournament at Muirfield Village last week you know that Collin Morikawa is the real deal, as great ball striking and putting put him over the top against another excellent young player, Justin Thomas. In this video (thanks to my friends at TaylorMade) we get perfect camera angles of an iron swing from both face on and down the line. There are many things of note on display: his grip is unconventional to say the least, his left hand weak but with the thumb positioned to the far right of the grip, while his right hand is…

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Online Lesson: John Lamendola- Comparison with Tiger Woods

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

John and I have been working together successfully (almost exclusively online) for about 5 years now, and this lesson is from April when he was just coming back after missing a few months due to shoulder surgery. John has all the equipment anyone could need right in his basement, so we have been able to keep an eye on his swing on a regular basis. In this lesson we go over a lot of the things we have focused on since the beginning, and I side by side him with his favorite player, Tiger Woods. As many of us do…

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Online Lesson Follow-up: Robert Palazuelos

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Rob has done a nice job improving his takeaway, which before had seen his hands pushing well down at the start, thus shutting the clubface, and leading to an across the line position at the top. Here we see Rob still somewhat across at the top but definitely improved. I would like Rob to extend more in the backswing with his right arm gaining more space away from his body, then work on keeping the club more on plane (pointing to the left) by increasing his forearm rotation from P3 to P4 (he is already better up to P3) and…

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Online Lesson Follow-up: Justin Miller-One Change Leads to Others

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

In this follow-up lesson Justin succeeds in accomplishing my main suggestion in his last lesson and keeps his head nicely out over the ball (staying on the forehead line) from the DTL view, giving him more right side bend through impact and a more leftward exit. In the FO view, however, Justin has set up with more upper body tilt to the right, and instead of loading right like he did when more centered at address, he stays more on top of the ball in the backswing and eventually does not get his hands as far forward at impact where…

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