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

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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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Lesson of the Week: John Lamendola- The Process Continues

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John took his first online lesson in June of 2015, and 6 years later he is still looking to swing and play better. His improvement over that period is substantial, which would explain why he still trusts me to comment on what he is doing and thinking. Golf is a lonely sport, and it can overrun your brain if you don’t have someone to bounce things off. John has been playing for a long time but just recently has raised his game to the level where he is competitive with the best amateurs. Looking at his swing over the years…

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Lesson of the Week: Richard Kress-Old Habits Die Hard

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Richard is one of my oldest friends in golf, and we have been working together for almost 40 years. He has always struggled with keeping his posture and hip depth during the swing, and the amount of time he has spent working on it and the results you see here tell you how difficult it is to change something that has produced decent results over time. Richard is 76 now and can shoot his age, but his goal has always been to swing correctly and strike the ball with authority. He has always been an early extender but was able…

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Lesson of the Week: Mike Erickson- Keeping the Hips in the Box in the Backswing

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Mike is a big guy at 6’3” and 230 lbs., and he is as solid as a rock with a muscular chest and large upper arms. For a person built like Mike who is not already an excellent player to have a decently correct swing that meets the ball with the hands forward on iron shots simply cannot have a long backswing that doesn’t get to that length without multiple errors, such as what you see here, wildly overactive legs in the backswing along with bent arms and a ton of right shoulder pull back. Feeling the legs stay “in…

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Lesson of the Week: Fixing Stu’s Barkley Move

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I first worked with Stu 20 or so years ago, and he was the second student I had taught who had developed the “swing yips”, notably demonstrated by Charles Barkley in his celebrity golf appearances and his work with Hank Haney on the Golf Channel (which, by the way, ended in failure). The first guy I saw afflicted with this was a big lefty, a former baseball player, who could not understand why he would get completely stuck at the top of his swing, jerking back and forth in an effort to start forward. This was not an every -swing…

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Lesson of the Week: Colton Nash- Great Hands, Got to Improve Mechanics

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Colton is 16 and hasn’t been playing much golf due to Covid, but he would like to play on his high school team and hasn’t been shooting the type of scores that would get him there. His swing has multiple issues, and that always presents a challenge for an instructor to prioritize what to start with and how to proceed. For the viewer, this type of lesson can be quite instructive to see what items I pick out to focus on, and to be sure every teacher might have a different take. I have always tried to look at the…

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Lesson of the Week: Jody Pelfry-Looking for Better Impact

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Jody is a 2 handicap at 49 years old but struggles with ball striking (I’m sure some of you are saying “how bad could it be?”) and would love to be more consistent (who wouldn’t, although I like to tell students that you don’t want to be consistent until you are really good). As soon as I watched Jody hit a few shots I knew I could help him. His posture was poor with his weight on his heels, always a recipe for big pivot problems. Sure enough, Jody’s lower body was square at impact and his hands were flipping…

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