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Lesson of the Week: Ryan Daly

Message to Wayne: I’m a father, teacher, and golf coach at a high school in NJ. I have played golf since I was a frosh in HS and got cut from the team the first two years I tried out. I made Varsity my Junior/Senior year. I had a hole-in-one at 16 years old and another at 19 which I was extremely blessed ended up being for a car during a golf outing. I was playing with 3 of my HS teammates and that was a very special day! My biggest playing achievement was qualifying for the NJ State Public…

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Lesson of the Week: Matthew Sawyer- Backswing Work

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Matthew is an 11 handicap who has been a member of WayneD.com for so time, and since he lives not too far from Baltimore decided to come up for a face to face lesson. My first impression was that Matt had better action than his handicap would suggest, but that he could improve his ball striking by focusing on backswing width and structure. You will see a side by side comparison between his first swings with a stop and go drill, and then with me doing some hands on moving, getting him to feel the extension and higher hands at…

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Rogers- Trying to Stay Out Over the Ball and Clear the Left Hip

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Steve is a high level senior amateur (played in last year’s U.S. Senior Am) but has been fighting pain in his right hip and lower back. We have always worked on Steve’s tendency to back up his upper body and come out from under himself with his lower, leading to late squaring of the hips and a right shoulder that drops down into impact without enough forward movement, the result usually being a fat iron shot or a pull as he runs out of right arm and is forced to utilize a throw type release. Here I suggest that Steve…

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Lesson of the Week: Peter Slaven Correcting Overly In to Out Path

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Peter is a high-level amateur who would like to sharpen his ball striking skills to get to an even higher level where he would be competitive on a state and national level. He has plenty of power, carrying his driver 280-290 yards, but tends to hook the ball overall and to miss too many irons right and left, the culprit being his in to out club path. I see his right arm continuing to deepen in transition which keeps his upper arm behind him in the forward swing. Peter loads to the right but never recovers his upper body position,…

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Lesson of the Week: Andrew Teo Having a Breakthrough

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If you have watched any of Andrew’s lesson videos (you should) you will see just how stubborn his backswing hitch has been to get rid of. Andrew is a good player and an athlete, and you might think that once he is made aware of such an obvious and exaggerated flaw that he could fix it fairly quickly. Of course, in golf this is rarely the case, as there are so many elements to putting the clubface to the ball that players often lack awareness of what they are doing and even when they see it in action on a…

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Lesson of the Week: John Krystynak- Backswing and Sequence Work

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John started with me online back in 2015, sent swings a few times that year and in 2016 and 17, then came down to Florida for a face to face in February of 2018. He returned a couple weeks ago for another look, and as usual we found ourselves working on the same issues. I’d like to see John use his entire upper body to get the swing started instead of just his hands, and when he does, I want him to stretch the backswing out much wider so that the upper right arm and shoulder don’t pull back behind…

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Paul Pastore, PGA: Shallowing Impact and Controlling Wedges

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Paul is an assistant professional working in Connecticut who combines a great natural swing technique with lots of power. Paul’s main issue, as is the case with most young players with his attributes, is controlling the ball. Paul stays quite centered during his swing and has a late release, so that a ball position that is back of center is almost guaranteed to produce a huge divot with a full swing. I like to have players with Paul’s ability to lag the club play the ball more forward, even with the wedges, as that will do a lot to decrease…

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Barber, PGA – Working on Trigger, Width, and Impact

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Steve is 55 years old and the Head Professional at the Locust Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. He is an accomplished player having qualified to play in 5 National Club Professional championships, but he has never made the cut and blames that for the most part on ball striking. He has been hitting his irons off the toe and not compressing the ball the way he would like and is looking for some things to work on as he gets ready to head back north to start the season. The first thing I notice is the hitch in…

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Lesson of the Week: Peter Slaven- Trying to Change an Overly In to Out Path

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Peter is an excellent player (scratch handicap) I see 3 or 4 times a year when either I visit Chicago, or he comes down to Florida to stay with his Dad and get out of the Chicago winter. Pete tends to hit the ball high with a draw, and his problem shot is one that over hooks to the left. We have worked on improving his sequence and using ground forces more effectively, and in these swings his transition move is leaving his head too far back to the right and slowing down his lower body clearing. The first thought…

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Lesson of the Week: Shaun Powers, PGA- Working on Right Arm Action

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Shaun is competitive club professional from Connecticut who would like to improve his swing and his ball striking. He is just about to turn 50, which gives him opportunities in tournament play that he hasn’t had in the past. He is already competitive against the younger guys so if he can improve a bit, he could be in contention for the National Senior Club Pro and possibly earn a spot in some senior majors. Shaun is a classic case of right arm and shoulder overuse, and in his case, it causes his upper arm to get trapped behind him in…

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