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What is the best way to teach golf?: An Interesting Conversation

By Wayne | blog

Chris: The fastest way to get good at golf is to focus on the target and try to hit it while constantly making adjustments and trying to figure out what works for you. You learn much faster that way than having some teaching pro hammering swing thoughts into your head or repeating the same movement over and over again. Learning golf is about making mistakes and finding an individual solution, not about repeating a swing method over and over again. It´s not about hitting some lines on a video screen, it´s about being able to hit golf shots on the…

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Wayne answers Hardy disciple’s comments on One Plane video.

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Mtwdwrd wrote: Wayne, I don’t know if you have some underlying insecurity or jealousy that leads you to have to criticize others, but it makes you look small. You can disagree all you want, but your opinion isn’t the golf gospel. Look at how many of your videos are to prove someone else is wrong. There was a thread on you over at golfwrx where a number of others feel the same way. You’re using video of one of the instructors and reading from Mr. Hardy’s book, but the pictures in his book are more accurate to what he is…

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Ryder Cup 2012: Much Ado About Very Little

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There is an inexorable urge among the media to assess blame for the United States’ loss in this year’s Ryder Cup. They just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter who played whom in what position. It doesn’t matter what guys were picked by the captains. What matters is that match play is an entirely one- on -one, personal thing, and the European team beat the Americans, straight up, fair and square. As the Accenture Match Play tournament has shown, at the Tour level anybody can beat anybody, and the overall level of one’s play is not necessarily highlighted by a…

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Match Play and the Ryder Cup: It’s Personal

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I am often asked by golfers who compete about the difference between match play and stroke play, and the question becomes all the more relevant with the Ryder Cup upon us again. There are really only 4 important match play tournaments for Tour pros: the World Golf Championship tournament at the beginning of the year, the limited field World Match Play, the President’s Cup, and the Ryder Cup. One thing is for sure: all the guys will tell you they want to win all their matches, which means they have to beat the guys they are playing against, and only…

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This Guy Must Be Terrible

By Wayne | blog

I don’t think it would be reaching to say that every player who spends time on the PGA Tour by earning exempt status is an excellent player. Some obviously have better careers than others. Some have fine careers without winning, some win then disappear. Some have picturesque swings, some have odd looking moves that might make you think that they weren’t that good, until you remembered where you were watching them (playing in a Tour event). Some hit the ball great and struggle with the short game, some do the opposite, and every now and then someone puts it together…

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Lunatic Coach wants to change Matteo Manassero’s Swing

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You might think it harsh for me to use the word “lunatic” when describing young Italian star Matteo Manassero’s coach Alberto Birnaghi. However, when you read the following recap of a recent Golf Digest article “The Quest For More Distance” I think you may reconsider your judgment.   “Matteo Manassero is still a teenager, yet his golf resume’ is already filled with some impressive accomplishments: Youngest player ever to win the British Amateur (age sixteen); a T-13 finish as an amateur at the 2009 British Open; youngest player ever to win a European Tour event (age 17). These are the…

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Blues Jam (with video)

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You’ve gotten a taste of Wayne’s blues harp in the post “Swing Analysis: In the Lab: Swing Observations”. Here we have Wayne jamming out two full songs (blues harp and vocals) playing with a live band in an open jam format. The rest of the band is as follows: Scott Martin – Piano, Bruce Martin – Organ, Henry Kurosaka – Guitar, Scott Andrews – Drums, Paul Groover – Bass. All the players attended Langley High School in McLean, Virginia in the 1970’s. The first song is the instrumental “Relaxin” by Big Walter Horton and the second is a Sonny Boy…

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You Can’t Fail if You Don’t Try

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It is not hard to see why a teaching pro who achieves a decent level of success (meaning a busy lesson book) would play less competitive golf or stop playing altogether. First there is the opportunity cost, as missing a day of work could mean more $ than finishing first in whatever tournament there is to play in that causes you to miss that day. Second is the price of entry and travel expenses, which you never hear about when the Tour is discussed. For a club pro paying a couple hundred dollar entry and then finding a hotel room…

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Chamblee Labels Tiger “One-Dimensional” and says he “Lacks Versatility” (with video)

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You might think from the title of this video that I have created fictional commentary from our man Brandel Chamblee to make him look ridiculous. As you will see, this is not the case, as Brandel does a fine job without my having to make up anything. Face it, there is no one on the planet with enough balls to say Tiger Woods “lacks versatility”, and that is not because no one other than Chamblee is courageous enough to speak the truth, it’s because the statement is so outrageously asinine that no one else would ever even think to say…

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