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Lesson of the Week: Marc Shapiro: Fixing Overly Inside Takeaway has Huge Benefits

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Marc has recently seen deteriorating ball striking, which led him to Osprey to have me take a look. Watching Marc’s swing I saw that he was doing a nice job at some of the most difficult things to teach, sequence and transition. However, his takeaway was too close to the ground and behind him with the additional problem of standing up, and as a result his entire right side was overturning with too much hip turn and his right arm getting well behind him at the top. By using a shaft to keep the clubhead outside of his hands in…

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Lesson of the Week: John Lamendola- Working on Not Backing Up and Slowing Backswing Tempo

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John has made great strides with his swing over the years we have been working together (mostly online) but now that he has acquired a place in Florida, we have had a couple of in person lessons in which I have been able to get John to feel things that not hard to mention and explain online but are not easy to feel without some hands on, face to face work. Here we find John’s head backing well away from its original position as he arrives at impact, and to get him to feel what it’s like to stay out…

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Lesson of the Week: Mike Haase PGA- Wanting Answers about Lower Body Movement

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Mike flew down to Florida from Illinois in the hope that I could answer some long-standing questions he had about the way he used his lower body during his swing. I could see right away that his concerns were well founded when I watched his right glute lose depth in the backswing and the left side of his pelvis move well forward, almost what could be considered a “death move” that leads to the loss of posture and an inability to rotate effectively through impact. We discussed at length my thoughts on right loading, hip depth, and how the hips…

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Lesson of the Week: Paul Oglesby PGA- Overcoming 5 Back Surgeries

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Paul may be the first player I’ve taught who has had more back operations than I have, and it shows in the swing he brought with him when he visited me in Boca for an in-person lesson. Paul has an excellent record as a player having competed in the British Open and two U.S. Opens in the 1980’s as well as winning the Pennsylvania State Open in 1994, but the golf swing is tough enough without dealing with constant pain and stiffness, and the last 20 years have brought diminishing returns as a player although Paul has continued his teaching…

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Lesson of the Week: Abe Cohen – Downswing Issues Lead to Fat Shots

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Abe is a new golfer who has succumbed to the allure of the game and wants to hit the ball better. He is plagued by hitting well behind the ball with his irons, and as anyone who has suffered with a spell of fat shots knows it is a problem that must be fixed for there to be any joy in a round of golf. Abe’s first batch of swings illustrate a few obvious problems (obvious to me and to veteran swing analyzers but of course not at all to someone just learning the basic concepts of hitting the ball…

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Lesson of the Week: Payne McEntee- Many Factors Contribute to Overly Outward Hand Path

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Payne is an accomplished junior who came to me after his former coach changed locations. The first time I saw Payne we worked on only wedges, but even in that shorter swing I took note of the outward loop in his transition. When we looked at it on video it was obvious to him what was going on, and I was hoping that by just pointing it out he could change it. Every now and then a player will do that, change immediately, and usually the player will be young and just hearing the information for the first time. But…

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Lesson of the Week: Henry Quartullo-Backswing Path Opens Pathway to More Power

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Henry came to me despondent about his diminished ability to create speed and distance with his swing. I could see right away that the way he was using his right arm in the backswing, bending it and pulling it directly behind him, was restricting his backswing to the point that added in with little hip depth and rotation left him with no potential to hit the ball far enough to make the game fun. I used a simple shaft in the ground to get Henry to extend his backswing more away from him and on plane and encouraged him to…

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Lesson of the Week: Jon Krinn-Trying to Shallow the Shaft as Opposed to Steepening it

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Executive chef Jon Krinn has been a friend and student for many years. When he opened a high-end restaurant in 2007, he got crushed by the recession and didn’t play golf for more than 10 years as he got his life back in order. We started back up at the end of 2018, and he played in a few events in 2019, qualifying for the Maryland State Open. He has a good mental image of what he wants his swing to do but the pattern of steepening the shaft in transition has been a stubborn thing to change. When you…

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Kandell – Getting Ready for Spring

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Steve, a 77 year -old former 6 – handicap now playing to more like a 20, came to Florida to get out of the cold of New Jersey and to get some help with his game. I’ll let him summarize the lessons (an hour a day over 4 days): “Thank you, Wayne, for the video- great commentary. I really enjoyed working with you and this video is a great reminder for me- hands up, right hand under, get left knee working towards right knee, club not outside hands on takeaway and don’t come so much from inside on downswing. It all…

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Lesson of the Week: Matthew Latham- Getting the Backswing on Plane to Simplify Impact

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Matthew is an English amateur is his late 20’s who has seen me for help about twice a year for the past 5 years. He has a great build for the game (lean and strong), and has toyed with the idea of turning pro. Going through his old swings it was apparent that Matthew’s backswing changes over time, and that he has not settled on a pattern he can trust. In this lesson we find him crossing the line at the top, not necessarily a swing killer, but in Matthew’s case, since he doesn’t flatten the shaft quickly in transition,…

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