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Lesson of the Week: Mark Armstrong 2 – Posture, Width, and Impact

Mark was referred to me by his friend Derek Gillespie, the Latin Tour Professional from Canada. Mark is a good player but seeing the improvement in Derek’s swing he was inspired to first send in his swing for an online lesson, then come down to see me at the club in Boca. Mark feels that it is his ball striking that is holding him back from reaching his next level, and he is looking for advice on how to improve it. When I saw his first swings I immediately focused on his posture. I think it is a huge deal to have a stance that promotes the things you would like to do with your swing, which is why I’m so against heel-oriented set ups. I don’t ever want to feel like I’m moving forward in the direction of the ball, and if I set up with my weight in my heels and I’m a normal person I’m going to gravitate toward my toes during the swing.

Lesson of the Week: Chuck Winograd 3-Seeing Nice Improvement

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Chuck lives in Canada and I won’t see him again probably until December, so this video is a summary of our work over the 3- month period at Boca Rio in Florida from Jan.1 to April 1, with reminders for things Chuck needs to focus on when he practices and plays this summer and fall. Chuck wasn’t doing so well when we started, and it was a real struggle at first, but he really started showing signs of coming around by the end of our time together.

Lesson of the Week: Mike Barile PGA- Trigger, Tempo, Impact

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Mike is an assistant professional working in Orlando who has watched the Wayne D. website for years and has now taken advantage of me being in Florida to come down and see me in person to hopefully change his swing for the better. His reporting on his play in general has the usual focus points: inconsistency and overall below standard ball striking leading to scores that don’t garner high finishes in the professional events in which he plays.

Lesson of the Week: Jimmy Farina-Why is it so Different When the Ball is There?

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“Why Can’t I Just Do That?”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that question when a player looks at a practice swing, or a drill swing, and compares it side by side with the one that has to hit the ball. Jimmy knows what his issues are and is consciously trying to avoid doing what you see him doing here, but unfortunately for Jim his swing is an engrained pattern and if he gets off to a bad start the bad pattern will always be close to the same. Here we see Jimmy on the course (the Medalist Club- what a great place! Greens were glass, so much fun to play) sabotaging himself with his trigger, not an uncommon thing. Anyone with an early extension, right hip thrusting, goat humping issue simply cannot afford to have a “sitting” trigger where the knees bend towards the ball and the foot pressure moves towards the heels. He must become more aware of what his pelvis is doing, and the best way to get the brain to remember what to tell the muscles to do is to set up and start the club back with the midsection muscles engaged enough to either maintain or increase anterior pelvic tilt.

Lesson of the Week: John Krystynak Part 6

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John decided to come to Florida to see me in person after seeing his last video lesson from a month or so ago. He has worked hard on changing his swing but there are too many issues to concentrate on, and the pattern that has been ingrained is a particularly difficult one to alter. Our first issue is John’s takeaway, which triggers with a tightening of both arms and a pull back of the upper body. We want to quiet his first move by keeping his elbows soft and utilizing the upper trunk to move the arms back instead of rotating the left arm outward and pinching the right elbow in. Changing a trigger is a tough deal and requires a lot of focus and concentration, and that is only the beginning of what John needs to do to get his swing to be where he would like it to be. John also tends to slide his hips a bit to the right going back, another item to try to fix up. We work with stop and goes to practice hitting with the backswing changes, also raising the grip up at address to make it easier for him to swing the hands and arms more deeply across his chest getting to P3.

Lesson of the Week: Jamie Kilmer PGA Part 2

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Jamie came back for another look about a month after seeing me for a few hours and there was significant improvement. In this lesson we continue to work on the takeaway, right arm and shoulder control getting to the top and in transition, and especially the idea of keeping the head out over the ball in the forward swing instead of pulling the upper body away in the impact area. Jamie is a strong guy who has had playing success in the past, and from the look of his swing when he does the drills he should be able to get back to being competitive if he can work the feelings the drills give him into his full swing on the course. He is well aware that this takes time and repetitions, and he is prepared to put in the effort to get his game and his ball striking back in shape.

Lesson of the Week: Matt Shubley – Turning Behind the Ball and Adding Lateral Hip Drive

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Matt plays for the golf team at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, and came to see me looking to improve his ball striking heading into the 2018 Spring tournament season. He finished T-4 in his first two events, so it appears that what we worked on had a positive effect on his game. We started with some short wedges, and the two things that stood out right away was his odd head movement in the backswing and his lack of any lateral pelvic movement in the forward swing.

Lesson of the Week: Tim Feld

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Tim is a low single digit handicap player who I saw for a lesson some years ago and has come back to see why he is hitting the ball so poorly. Tim’s main bad shot is weak right, with the club glancing across the ball and the impact feeling flippy. At regular speed Tim’s swing is like most good players, smooth and rhythmical, with no obviously apparent flaws, although someone with a good eye for the swing might pick out Tim’s posture as an issue. After slowing it down, however, I saw right away that Tim was backing well away from the ball in his downswing, which I attributed to first his posture at address and then to his loss of control of the pelvic, lower back, and abdominal muscles, especially during the transition and all the way through impact.

Lesson of the Week: Jaime Kilmer, PGA – Stop Crossing the Line

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Jaime is the PGA Head Professional at the Wheatley Hills Golf Club on Long Island, New York, and a good friend of long time Wayne D. website member and student Peter Procops. Jaime has been working hard and having children the last 10 years or so, and his game has suffered from a lack of practice and competition. He has had some good results in the past, however, and is anxious to get his game back in shape and return to tournament play.

Lesson of the Week: Andrew Teo – Tempo and How a Shut Clubface Affects the Backswing

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Andrew is a 6 handicap who could be much better given his athletic ability and the nice sequencing of his swing. He complains of inconsistency, and I spotted two things immediately that I wanted to change that I felt would simplify his swing and make him a better ball striker. The first was the radically closed clubface in the backswing.

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