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Lesson of the Week: Matthew Woods, PGA

As we know, swings that are rhythmical and paced well almost always look good to the naked eye. Matthew’s swing is no exception, and certainly that ability to make a graceful, powerful athletic motion is always going to be a positive when it comes to being able to implement technique change, which is what we know we are going to need after analyzing the details of the swing in slow motion.

Lesson of the Week: John Lamendola

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If you have watched any of my other online lessons with John, you know that our main goal is to get his hands and arms to stop dropping behind him in transition. John is a good player and has every tool imaginable available to him in his house, and has been working with me for about 8 months, so you can see just how difficult this type of pattern is to change.

Lesson of the Week: Bobby Vairo, PGA

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It is impossible to assess a swing adequately without slowing it down. There is so much of importance that is too fast to ascertain with the naked eye that it really demands more time to study and analyze before making judgements and prescribing fixes and practice ideas. The other thing that this type of study allows is a one to one comparison of what was and what happens when new ideas are introduced.

Lesson of the Week: Gabe Reynolds, PGA

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Gabe is a teaching professional from the North Texas Section who was instrumental in getting me invited to work with the staff at Preston Trails GC in Dallas. Gabe had seen some of my videos and suggested that the club spend its education budget money on having me down for 3 days to teach the assistants and to help them with their own teaching. This is the 3rd time I have worked with Gabe, and in the past two years he has won some major club pro events in his region.

Playing for Money: Jonathan Krick

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I think after you watch this video you will agree with Jonathan that we made some significant progress during this 2 hour lesson. The changes we made in the backswing produced exceptionally good looking positions from the takeaway to the top, and although we accomplished this with a stop and go drill it still shows that Jonathan can make a great looking backswing and still hit the ball, and that when he takes it to regular speed and films it he will know just what to look for and to concentrate on to get it to look and feel the way he wants.

Lesson of the Week: John Hughes

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John is a website member who happened to be traveling through Florida at the same time I was teaching in Boca, so he took advantage and came over for a couple hours. John is a big, athletic guy with a nice looking motion but had been really struggling with his ball striking. As usual it was not immediately apparent in a full speed swing what the issues were, but when we slowed it down and looked more closely it was easy to see a common pattern that is produced when the right arm stays too “pinched” in front of the chest in the backswing.

Lesson of the Week: Billy Lincoln

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Billy is a website member from California and when he saw that I was going to be in Phoenix he took a quick flight over for a lesson. Billy was a 1 handicap before he broke his back in a car accident in Mexico and now is a frustrated 5 even though he has gotten his strength and mobility back. I always watch my students hit a few full shots while asking them about their background and how they feel about what they are doing at the moment, and sometimes I can spot some obvious things right away that I know will be a big help, even before I film the swing.

Lesson of the Week: Ben Gravley

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Ben is a New Yorker who does some business in Phoenix and L.A. so when he saw on the website that I was going to be in Phoenix he contacted me for a lesson. He usually works with a fellow former LSU Tiger Jason Magee, and Jason was nice enough to let me work with Ben at the back of the range at McCormick Ranch where Jason teaches.

Lesson of the Week: Jack Gallagher

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Jack is a long time website member and a regular contributor to the forum. He likes to think in detail about his swing and jumped on the opportunity to come over to McCormick Ranch for an hour face to face lesson. What you will see is a very nice motion that again needs slow motion analysis to figure out why it doesn’t work better.

Lesson of the Week: Nick Cammarene

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Nick is the son of a PGA Professional, Mark Cammarene, and back in July Mark sent me his son’s swing for analysis as he was watching Nick hit the ball horribly and wasn’t able to help (son’s don’t like to listen to their fathers many times). I made some suggestions that helped out quite a bit so when I got down to Florida this week Mark set up a time for me to teach Nick face to face.

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