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Online Students: David Ferrell

Here we see one of the most common ways to get the clubhead “stuck” behind the hands in the approach to impact. David starts with the “triangle” look at address, which always looks tight to me, and I encourage him to go the “home plate” address (a la Hogan) where both arms are bent at the elbow and only loosely tied to the body. David’s swing doesn’t show any effects of this tightness until left arm parallel in the backswing, where he begins to slide to the right and lift up. His lack of contact with the ground makes it…

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Online Students: Matthew Kontoginais

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Here’s a very sound swing by a powerful guy that could be jacked up to produce freakish distance and dialed down for control by freeing it up in the backswing with wider turn produced by greater overall trunk movement, initiated by a wider move with the upper body and an almost immediate deepening of the right hip. In order to feel this wider takeaway (more “carry” with both arms) I would first have him soften his arms at address to look more like “home plate” (elbows bent) than like the proverbial “triangle”. By concentrating on rotating his spine and including…

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The Myth of Hogan and the One Plane Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

The ascent of the “One Plane Swing”, Jim Hardy’s catchy name for his teaching preferences, is a fairly recent occurrence, coming after Hardy’s success with Peter Jacobsen, Tom Pernice, Olin Browne and other Tour players. Perhaps the most successful of the “one-planers” is Matt Kuchar, who is taught not by Hardy but by Chris O’Connell, a Hardy disciple. I happen to like Kuchar’s swing, and have no problem with anyone teaching what they believe to be viable ways to hit a golf ball, especially when there is evidence that it works, at least for some (which is always the case…

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Student Lesson: Joey Lane

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

You have seen Joey before, and what you find here is more or less a repeat of the last lesson I posted. Joey is a very good junior (he won the Optimist International Junior Championship this year at the Champions course in Palm Beach, Fla. against an international field) but his excellent play has come about fairly recently and his swing is prone to regressing to old habits when he plays in multiple tournaments without getting a check-up. Here he is back to pinching his right arm in the backswing, which sets a pattern for him that ends up with…

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Playing for Money: Clayton Rotz

By Wayne | Videos: Playing For Money

I have been teaching Clayton since he was about 14 years old, about 9 years now. He won numerous junior tournaments and played in two U.S. Amateurs as a teenager. He pretty much wasted his college career (he did win the Cardinal Amateur a few years back during the summer) but is now a professional and playing the Hooters Tour, where he has made a bit more than 50 % of his cuts and has been in the hunt a few times. He had his best result to date a few weeks back when he won the Pennsylvania Open by…

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The P.A.T. Project: Student Lesson: CJ D’Arco Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

If you missed the first installment of the P.A.T. (Player Ability Test) Project with CJ D’Arco you should know that CJ is a young aspiring assistant pro at a neighboring club who, in order to gain status in the PGA of America, must pass the playing test by shooting somewhere in the neighborhood of 78-78 in a one day qualifier. CJ’s problem is that he hasn’t been close to breaking 80, but has made some progress (and has broken 80 a few times) since our first lesson about 6 weeks ago. Here you see why CJ has had such a…

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Online Students: Branden Nagler Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

One of the things I have to do after watching a swing and looking at exactly what it is doing (although now it seems that the opinion is growing that without a Trackman no one can really see fully what is going on) is to try to come up with reasons for the movements that are present and for the apparent stubbornness of the movements to change. Some of this requires conjecture as I guess that perhaps this does that because of this, or that this won’t do that because of something else, but when it comes to finding ways…

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TP&C: Dick Mast – Shot Shaping

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities

Dick Mast is now 41st on the Champions Tour money list with over $285,000, and you can see why he has had his best year ever as you watch these swings. He likes to move the ball both ways (and has a straight shot as well), so I filmed him doing one of each, and you can really see how the swing produces the shot he is picturing in his mind. The changes are subtle but definitely noticeable with the camera, and you can see the change in swing shape produce different impact alignments for each desired ball flight. …

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TP&C: Len Mattiace

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities

I was surprised on Friday afternoon to see the name “Len Mattiace” in my book for an hour lesson Saturday, since most Tour players would probably call me directly first to see if I had extended time available, and probably wouldn’t schedule the lesson through the shop like a normal person would. As it turned out, Len showed up at 9:40 for his 10 am lesson, as nice and unassuming as could be. He had not been playing well for some time, and was not particularly happy with the things he was working on. He had heard my name around…

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Swing Analysis: Tiger and Rory at the Barclays

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

With Tiger and Rory playing together at the Barclays there were a number of holes where they hit similar shots on camera. Here we look at an iron shot on the par 5 7th, after hitting drives of 330 (Tiger) and 335 (Rory). The camera angles are quite similar, so we get a nice chance to compare their swings. What we see are two very different methods to hit the ball long and straight, while noting some similarities as well. They are the two most charismatic and interesting players alive, and being able to study their swings in detail is…

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