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Online Students: Conner Kumpula Part 7

If you haven’t watched Connor’s online lessons from the first one you should really go back and check each one of them out. The improvement really shows that online work can help even the best players, and as you watch Connor’s swing it’s hard not to agree that it’s one of the best you will see. He definitely has the ability to take his game to the next level, and what we see here are a couple of minor suggestions that will hopefully keep his swing progressing.

Swing Analysis: Jimmy Walker Significant Changes for the Better

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Jimmy Walker has made some significant changes for the better in his swing in recent years, although his penchant for pulling his head back a ton is still present. What has allowed him to improve his ball striking is a slight adjustment in posture to one more out over the balls of his feet, and a much different overall use of the right arm and the wrists in the backswing.

Lesson of the Week: Matthew Latham Controlling his Wedges

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In this lesson we see an excellent young player with a powerful swing learning to control his wedge shots. Matthew can hit a pitching wedge 150 yards, but is not at his best when trying to flight his short iron shots, and has trouble from any type of in between distances.

Online Students: William Stepp

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William’s swing reminds me of Hogan (I’m not sure if William has patterned his swing after Ben’s or not), so I take the opportunity in this video to put Hogan’s swing side by side with William’s in order to illustrate what I believe would be a technique change that would help an already excellent move. As we have seen over and over in these online lessons the way the right arm works in the swing is a huge deal

Swing Analysis: Phil Mickelson Actually Makes a Change

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I have said at least a few times in the past that Phil Mickelson has never changed his swing. He has claimed that he has done this and that but his standard pattern has remained the same, and the video has proved it. Recently, however, he has changed teachers and touted a “new plane”, a statement I disagreed with earlier in the year. But, after watching him at the British Open and studying his more recent swings, I now agree with his assessment that he has changed his action significantly for the better, as you will see in this video.

Online Students: Erik Ludtke Part 4

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Erik is definitely making progress with his swing, and here we identify the major issue which, if he can correct it, will significantly improve his mechanics and his ball striking. Erik stands with a flared right foot, which allows him to rotate the right leg and pelvis too much in the backswing. Coupled with an upright stance that does not incorporate much pelvic tilt at address the over rotation and lack of depth cause the left side of the pelvis to move forward and down, which in turn pressures the front of both feet and makes it hard to rotate into the forward swing without driving the right leg up underneath him.

Lesson of the Week: Scott Knoblach

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Scott came all the way down from Minnesota to continue the work we did last March down in Boca Raton. In that lesson Scott’s swing had a steep approach, and as you will see he is not anything but steep. In fact, he has gotten himself a bit more in-to-out than he should be, mostly due to an overturned right side.

Online Students: Chuck Zellner Part 4

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Chuck has made great strides with his backswing, which makes it possible now to focus on transition and the approach to impact. Chuck has a pronounced pause at the top of his swing as he tries to make sure he flattens the shaft (which he does), but the flattening does not seem to be the result of the dynamic movement of his pivot initiating the forward motion with the lower body pulling the left arm against the chest, but rather a purposeful laying off of the shaft in an independent movement.

Online Students: Billy Lincoln

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As you will see in the video Billy has made some tremendous improvements since I saw him in person in Arizona back in December. The further suggestions here focus on an idiosyncratic move that Billy has in transition when he shrugs his shoulders, dropping his chin into his chest and tightening the right bicep, which then does not allow the right arm to straighten at all in the first part of the downswing.

Playing for Money: Derek Gillespie Part 4 – Derek Qualifies for the 2016 Travelers

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I am particularly proud of this video/lesson as it took an already very good swing and made it better. In fact, I would have to say that this is one of the best swings I have worked with. By the time Derek left to head up to the Traveler’s 4-spot qualifier (in which, by the way, he shot 64 to lead the qualifiers by 2 shots) I was shaking my head at how good this swing looked.

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