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Lesson of the Week: Chris Mauer Part 2

This might as well be a commercial for the Posture Pod, as Chris is a prime example of a good player who can’t quite get to the next level because of his up and under lower body movement, the exact thing that the Posture Pod was designed to help. All the familiar patterns are here, with the right leg going forward toward the ball and the head backing up, while the right arm falls behind the body and releases out to the right through impact. A lot of what separates this website and my teaching from others is that we…

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Lesson of the Week: David Eaton

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David is a senior PGA Professional from the Middle Atlantic Section with whom I have played many tournaments. I don’t usually watch the people I play with very closely, so I had no real opinion on the state of his game, but he has been struggling for the past 5 years or so (kind of like me) after hurting his lower back. His main complaint is a major loss of power and a “slappy” feeling at impact, and when you watch his full swing you can see why this might be the case. His pivot is barely functioning even though…

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Lesson of the Week: Darren Dobbs – The “One-Armed Bandit”

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You have heard me talk about the importance of right arm action in the swing, and in this case it’s especially important because that’s all Darren has. He has earned an 11 handicap by shooting between 82 and 86 20 times in a row, prompting a call from the USGA. Turns out that no one with that handicap shoots scores with so little variation, so they were prompted to give a call (someone who lost in a handicap event probably complained). When they were apprised of the fact that Darren plays with one arm they quickly dropped the inquiry. As…

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Lesson of the Week: Justin Miller

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Not all lessons go smoothly or end up with a major change in technique. There are time constraints to begin with (this was an hour lesson) and some issues are particularly stubborn. After all the lessons I have given and all the experience I have amassed I can usually get a swing on tape, even if it’s a drill or a stop and go, that looks significantly different and suggests that the student is on the right track and has the right stuff to work on. In this case we run into a major headache with Justin’s difficulty in flattening…

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Lesson of the Week: Kayla Perkins

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Kayla is a 13 year old member of my previous club and had just started getting serious about playing competitive golf. When we started her biggest issue was sequence and as you can see here, she has made tremendous progress.

Lesson of the Week: Justin Duffie Part 5

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As you may know, Justin is a great athlete (offensive tackle for the U. of MD and an AAU caliber basketball player) who tackled golf after football was done with and who spent his first few years developing a swing so technically challenged that even his athletic talent couldn’t overcome the difficulty he created at impact. He has worked as hard to change his swing as anyone I have ever worked with, and I always show his original swings side by side with the newer ones so that the obvious results are there for all to see. He still struggles…

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Lesson of the Week: Joey Lane Part 3

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Joey, now a freshman at Virginia Tech, has made tremendous progress as a player during the time we have worked together. He was a late starter as a junior, and then had a big win at the Optimist World Junior in 2012. He was close to taking a gap year after high school due to being late in the recruiting mix, but a spot came open on the Tech team and the coach thought enough of Joey’s potential to give him the spot. There was talk of redshirting Joey after an injury sidelined him for a few weeks, but he…

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Lesson of the Week: Zachary Turek

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This video may give you hope, or it may annoy you to no end to watch someone who can take instruction and implement the changes almost immediately. Some people can pretty much do what they want to do, and if their swings are faulty there is a very good chance that the information they have is not good enough to produce a playable swing that impacts the ball with quality. I can never tell if a player is of this ilk until the lesson gets going and after analyzing what is happening I make suggestions and he (or she) tries…

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Lesson of the Week: Chris Mauer

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Chris came in from Indiana to spend a few hours with me after having done an online lesson about a month before. Chris is a good player but has trouble with ball control, especially under pressure, and his scores tend to skyrocket when he tries to play in tournaments. This is a classic case of a nice motion hampered by less than effective pivot movement, as Chris loses quite a bit of posture in his downswing, and the general effect is to make the release action too complicated for Chris to manage. As you have seen in any number of…

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Lesson of the Week: Ravi Makam

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Ravi is a 13 year old who is just starting his freshman year at my old Alma Mater, Langley High School in McLean, Virginia. Ravi is quite large for his age, and his size 14 shoes suggest he will only get a lot bigger. This is not only his first lesson with me, but his first lesson ever, and what you see to start with is what you would call “homemade”, with a lot of common elements I see in young kids left to their own devices. The beauty of this is the natural fluidness of the movement, and the…

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