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Lesson of the Week: Rick Moreau-Working on Increasing Lateral Movement and Shallowing the Downswing

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Online Students

Rick is a low single digit handicapper who produces a nice impact but often feels as though he is “hanging back” and unable to get fully to his left side in the downswing and through impact, causing some pulls and weak right shots. The video shows that Rick stays almost stationary on his right foot well past impact, and that his hips have only moved an inch or two forward of where they started. From down the line it is apparent that Rick has a bit too much of the hands out move without enough flattening of the club,…

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Lesson of the Week: Austin Lyons- Working on a Fuller Swing and Better Impact

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Online Students

Austin has made great improvements in his swing technique over the 10 years we have been working together (1-3 times a year, 4 hours over 2 days), and each time he comes I try to deal with the swing he brings and give him things to work on until I see him again. In this lesson I note right away that his swing looks too short, and his impact is still way too flippy. The shortness of his swing seems to be a result of his lower body interrupting the backswing too soon, which is something I try to…

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Online Lesson: Joe Flood- Needing More Forearm Rotation in the Backswing and a Quieter Trigger

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Online Students

Hi Wayne, Making steady gains. You have given me about 8-10 items to work on and I think I’ve made a bit of progress on all except a flatter left wrist at the top and coming down. In addition, I’m still trying to get the hips more cleared at impact with more work to do there…. Question does my left arm look too upright at the top? I always start each lesson with the “swing you bring”, meaning that while it is interesting to look for progress based on the last lesson it is more important to focus on what…

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Max Homa Swing Analysis: Classic Form Begs to be Emulated

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

There is nothing about this swing that you wouldn’t want to copy, even if you don’t have Max’s 32-year-old, 6’2”, 180 lb. body (my guess is that he has put on 20 more pounds of muscle since the PGA Tour did his profile). Everything about this is quality, from the grip to the stance and posture, and then to the effortless looking swing that produces average drives of 306 yards. A few things that are a bit different from what I might teach are the locked looking arms at address and the lack of rightward head movement in the backswing,…

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Lesson of the Week: Mike Rushin PGA- Working on Hip Depth for Better Driving

By Wayne D | Videos , Videos: Lesson of the Week

Mike is a perfect example of the new generation of physically large golf professionals who used to play other sports but now regularly carry the driver 320 plus. You still must hit the ball in play, however, and recently Mike has been scattering his drives left and right, feeling “jammed up” in the impact area and unable to control the clubface. His swing demonstrates excellent pivot sequence when viewed from face on, but from down the line the issue was obvious once the Wayne D lines were drawn on the setup. The video shows that while he initiated his downswing…

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Lesson of the Week: Austin Lyons- Pivot Compression Helps Everything

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Austin has been coming a couple times a year since 2013 and while, like everyone, he struggles with stubborn swing issues, he has made nice progress and is enjoying the process. In this video we see the results of adding hip depth and maintaining right knee flex in the backswing. Austin looks way more athletic as he lowers instead of lifting, adding to the length of his swing as well, even though that was not a specific priority. Another big benefit is his ability to clear his hips, as we see his left knee disappear much sooner in the forward…

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Lesson of the Week: Eric Cogorno PGA-Center Loading Hips Causing Problems at Impact

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When Eric told me I was influential to his coaching career I thought that was very cool, and when he asked me to look at his swing I said, “let’s do it.” Eric does an impressive job with his online instruction, but as you all know us teachers are hyper critical of our own swings and chronic issues drive us crazy. In Eric’s case, he has always disliked his release action, which you will see is surprisingly flippy given that he gets his hands nicely up to the ball at P6 from the face on view. He has plenty of…

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Lesson of the Week: Eric Willey PGA- Working on Right Arm Issues

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Eric is a former high level baseball player who came to golf later in life and has made great strides since joining the staff at a local country club where he works as an assistant. His swing looked great to the eye due to his athletic fluidity, but the ball was curving quite a bit right to left, which is always a combination of face and path issues. With talented players like Eric the hook spin is commonly caused by an overly in-to-out path combined with a closing face to keep the ball from going directly to the right. The…

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Online Lesson: Joe Flood-Working on Swing Dynamics and Approach Plane

By Wayne D | Videos , Videos: Online Students

Hi Wayne, After doing well as a junior golfer in San Diego I got a golf scholarship to USC in the 70’s. I played one year in Australia (1980). In 1981 I then went into insurance and my golf dropped into the once a week turmoil 😊. Around 1988 I started to play better and had a good stretch to about I won 2 club championships at Bel-Air averaging around 73 during this 6 years. I’m not ready to accept the fact, maybe dreaming a bit, that I cannot play at that good stretch level again. My short game is good, my…

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Sam Burns Swing Analysis: Long off the Tee, Solid Ball Striker, Great Putter

By Wayne D | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

Stats don’t lie (usually), and when you average 310 off the tee, are 11th on Tour in Strokes Gained Approaching the Green, and top 10 in Strokes Gained Putting you are going to win a lot of money and put yourself in position to win with some regularity. Burns shines because unlike other excellent players with great stats he wins more often when he has a chance, three times already this year. He is a strong looking athlete at 6’1” and 185 lbs., and his swing is good enough to want to copy, utilizing the OTTFTI method of outward hand…

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