By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week
Peter had a nice summer of competition and in this lesson, we continue to try to improve his ball striking by simplifying some important elements of his swing. Peter’s main issue has been the odd hook that occurs less frequently now but still pops up at inopportune times. I see him getting his right arm […]
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In this video I look at the swings of 4 Tour players from last months tournament at the 2019 Greenbrier Classic. I focus on where their shaft is when the left arm is parallel to the ground in the downswing (P5). The eventual winner Joaquin Niemann is the flattest and has the most shaft shift […]
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I have done Niemann’s swing not that long ago but here he is at 20 years of age winning a Tour event by 6 shots and the swing just blows my mind. I’m all for lowering in the swing (this website is called Pivot Compression after all) but Niemann takes it to another level, and […]
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Message to Wayne: I’m a father, teacher, and golf coach at a high school in NJ. I have played golf since I was a frosh in HS and got cut from the team the first two years I tried out. I made Varsity my Junior/Senior year. I had a hole-in-one at 16 years old and […]
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Some of the best ball-strikers in the world average in the neighborhood of 75% greens in regulation, that means they have to get up-and-down for par every fourth hole. If you’re hitting 2/3rds of your greens in regulation you need to get up-and-down every third hole, 50% and you need to get up-and-down every other […]
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One of the things I often hear golfers say is “I want to hit the ball more consistently” and sometimes they are already hitting it consistently, consistently bad. If you are serious about hitting the ball consistently well it is essential to start with a consistent set up routine. In this second Basement Tapes lecture […]
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In this continuation of the Basement Tapes lecture series I cover three topics: Lecture video one: “How The Lower Body Works in The Golf Swing”, lecture video two: “Set Up Routine for the Irons and Driver”, Lecture video three: “Master These Two Main Pitching Techniques”. In the first lecture I use my own swing as […]
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Matthew is an 11 handicap who has been a member of WayneD.com for so time, and since he lives not too far from Baltimore decided to come up for a face to face lesson. My first impression was that Matt had better action than his handicap would suggest, but that he could improve his ball […]
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It was a great match between John Augenstein, senior at Vanderbilt University, and Andy Ogletree, senior at Georgia Tech, in the finals of the 2019 U.S. Amateur. Augenstein led most of the match after shooting 65 in the morning round but Ogletree played the last 34 holes without a bogey and finally caught and passed […]
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I am hearing a lot of questions from everyone about the “new” idea that the “Sam Snead Squat” is the way to go, which is another way of saying (erroneously, but I’ll get to that) that the initial pivot move in transition is entirely rotational, one which produces a right leg action that “holds” the […]
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