Videos: Lesson of the Week | Wayne DeFrancesco

Lesson of the Week: Steve Rogers- Using the Wayne D Elite Senior Swing Ideas

By Wayne | The Senior Swing , Videos: Lesson of the Week

Steve is an excellent player (you can see that by his swing) and has qualified for multiple U.S. Senior Amateurs. He has been a student of mine for over 5 years, although I only see him a couple times a year as he lives in Kentucky and his Florida residence is on the other side of the state. He has suffered from many of the types of injuries that we all do as we get older (he is 62, same as me) and has lost some mobility. His main issue has always been a lack of rotation in his lower…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Amelie Alcantara- Right Arm Issues Lead to Weak Impact

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Amelie is a 16-year-old sophomore playing for her high school golf team and hoping to improve enough to earn a golf scholarship to college. I first noticed her practicing diligently on the range at Osprey Point where I teach, and noted to a friend that she evidenced an issue that I see constantly with juniors who are thinly built, that of over-turning the right arm and shoulder in the backswing. In Amelie’s case (as you will see) both her hands were on the target side of her head at the top, and the amount of turn was bending her spine…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Michael Gilels- Posture, Posture, Posture

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

It’s amazing how many good things an improvement in posture can open up for any level player. Michael is a pretty good stick, about a 5 handicap, but like most golfers is plagued by inconsistent ball striking, especially with his irons. With his upper back in extreme flexion (you can feel this by dropping your chin down until your neck begins to bend down as well) and his weight centered toward his heels, Michael was limited in what he could do with his upper trunk and with his right arm. As we worked to stand up taller with his chin…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Junior Golfer Conrad Luce- Working on Improving Impact

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Conrad has gotten to a decent level as a competitive junior and is looking to up his game by improving his ball striking. He is accurate but not long, and his iron play can be erratic with mishits and shots that spin up and are affected by the wind. In the video you will see a classic flip release with Conrad keeping the clubface open well into the downswing to the point that he has no choice but to stall his hips, jump up to his toes, and do everything he can to allow the hands to rotate the clubface…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Claire Luce- Classic Issues for Junior Golfers

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

As we watch Claire, who is 13, swing the club we can see the talent present in the motion. She will be a much more consistent and better ball striker when she improves her impact position, which you will see does not produce enough forward shaft lean to prevent some thin and fat shots from interrupting her rounds. My focus here is on the way she overstretches when completing the backswing, pushing her ribcage to the right, straightening her right knee, and pulling her right upper arm and shoulder well behind her at the top. This over extension, combined with…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Sam Bellamy- Trying to Undo Years of Unwanted Swing Patterns

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

You probably read the title to this video and chuckled. “No kidding, years of unwanted swing patterns you say…join the club”. Sam, however, has quite the interesting background when it comes to golf, having played in college and tried the mini tours afterwards, only to find that he could not shoot the kind of scores necessary to making a living as a competitor. He quit for a while, then came back to the game but has seen the quality of his ball striking and overall scoring ability get worse. He has been a member of the website for several years…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Dick Rotner Making Great Progress at Age 72

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

I’ve been watching a few videos online that claim to offer the “best” swing technique for senior golfers (even though the instructors offering the advice are anything but senior) but I think you’ll see here that golfers who are getting up in years (I’m 62, so I qualify for that category) like Dick can still make improvements by focusing on sound fundamentals that prioritize the forward swing instead of concentrating on lengthening the backswing. Dick, like most seniors, has limitations in the amount he can separate his upper trunk from his lower. Do we really want to create more backswing…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: John Martindale- Set-up Routine, Quiet Trigger, and Swing Shape

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

John is a high single digit handicapper who has enough good things going on in his swing that he could certainly get himself down to the low single digits. His problem (whose isn’t) is the erratic nature of his ball striking, and right away I saw a strong, fluid athletic motion hampered by a lack of structure and discipline before he even takes the club away. John’s method of setting up to the shot does not lend itself to consistency as he neglects to have a routine that will establish ball position, distance from the ball, alignment, foot position and…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: John Martin – Figuring Out how to Tackle a Complicated Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

John is a decent player who could be much better. He has advanced about as far as he can with the swing he showed up with, and as you will see there are many issues to deal with, too many to tackle all at once. John is serious about his game as evidenced by the fact that he comes up to Baltimore from D.C. (worst traffic in the universe) to seek help, and while I never want to overload a student, I do like to go over the swing as a whole and try to explain how the overall pattern…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

Lesson of the Week: Peter Slaven- Right Forearm Takeaway and Centering Setup

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Peter had a nice summer of competition and in this lesson, we continue to try to improve his ball striking by simplifying some important elements of his swing. Peter’s main issue has been the odd hook that occurs less frequently now but still pops up at inopportune times. I see him getting his right arm too deep at the top of the swing and then moving his head back away from the target (as opposed to the more common issue of backing away from the ball). In our last lesson I encouraged Pete to load more to the right early…

Become a Premium member [click here to join] today! If you are already a member please login.

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 23 Next »

Category Archives for "Videos: Lesson of the Week"