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Online Lesson: Joel Atkinson- How Posture Affects Early Extension

As you will see in the video Joel does a lot of excellent things in his swing. The camera is not quite clear enough to discuss his impact in detail, but it does seem like his hands get up to the ball and that he can sustain impact fairly well. The thing that jumps out at me is Joel’s posture. It’s not that no one who is really good sets up with their balance in the middle of their feet and the butt line well back from the heels, but in Joel’s case and just about anyone with early extension problems I always feel that a posture that is more out over the ball with more pelvic tilt and less knee flex is more conducive to changing the pattern where the legs always feel underneath and moving more toward the ball.

Online Lesson John Lamendola: Looking for More Driver Speed (163 mph ball speed)

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John has made remarkable progress over the 2 ½ years we have been working on his swing, and now that he knows where the ball is going and is comfortable with his technique we are looking for ways to increase his clubhead and ball speed with the driver. In this lesson I put him side by side with Charlie Hoffman, who I filmed a few years ago when I was at the Valspar Championship with Streelman. In the comparison I note that John is loading his pelvis toward his center instead of over his right leg, and when he cuts the right hip in and leaves the “wall” that is the right side of the face on hip box he short changes his upper body coil and leaves some potential energy unused.

Online Lesson: Chuck Zellner- Still Fighting Early Extension Aka Goat Humping

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Chuck has done a marvelous job with his swing over the time I have been working with him. From face on you can see he has been able to achieve a true drive/hold release with great impact alignments and sustain past impact. He has also tempered a lot of the exaggerated movements in his backswing, which has now given his swing a simple, classic look. If there is anything Chuck can still improve going back I would say that I might get him to lower a bit less overall and not add additional knee flex from P3 to P4. This seems to feed into Chuck’s main issue, which is still the improper use of his glute muscles in the forward swing. His knees both move to the right of the target in transition, and although he has increased his rate of hip rotation he still tends to move under himself, leveling his pelvis too early in the downswing.

Online Lesson: Austin Kendziorski Showing Winning Form

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Austin has done a marvelous job with his swing, as you will see when I side by side his swing now with the first one he sent me over two years ago. One of the keys to success at the higher levels is the ability to shoot extremely low numbers, and Austin’s 64 at Erin Hills and 63 at Rich Harvest Farms indicate he has no fear of hopping in the sub and going down. This kid is destined for good things.

Online Lesson: Zachary Turek, PGA- Correcting the Takeaway

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Zach is a club professional from Pennsylvania who has been working with me every now and then for a few years. You can see that he has very nice rhythm to go with a strong impact (and he’s a strong guy as well), but in the swings we see here, the start of his swing is taking him off plane and forcing him to steepen the club in transition. My suggestions focus mostly…

Online Lesson: Peter Procops

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Our old friend Pete is still grinding away, and while his swing has greatly improved he is still fighting tendencies that have been present for a long while as he contends with back issues. The main thing that a stiff, sore, painful back have on the swing is to restrict the separation of the upper and lower trunk movements during the full swing. The brain is wired to avoid pain, and even when the back is feeling OK it is difficult to move the body at full speed into places that previously have caused problems. I know this for a fact because I wrestle with it myself every day, and I can see in Pete’s swing that the things we want to see are difficult to achieve because the body simply avoids the positions, and it takes a huge amount of focus and physical effort to force what you would hope would be more natural.

Online Lesson: John Lamendola Part 14- Loading in Transition

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John is still looking for more distance with the driver (who isn’t) and in this video lesson I suggest that he try to load back into the right hip more as he gets to the top of his swing, which would be evidenced by a lowering of his head as the hands and arms change direction. After this lesson John received the Swing Catalyst he ordered for his house (anyone can have one for 10 grand), a very cool machine that measures ground force changes during the swing as well as vertical force in the forward swing. As I predicted John found that his use of the ground left something to be desired, and now that he has a tool to measure it will certainly be interesting to see what comes next.

Online Lesson: Michael Beaty Part 4

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Hi Wayne – I recently played in my first tournament in about 10 years (Massachusetts Mid-Am) and had a great experience. I finished T-23 with rounds of 75-73-78 (qualifying round to get into the tournament was a 72). The ball striking was generally good (averaged 12 GIR) during the tournament. My miss was a…

Getting Unstuck – Online Student: Matt Shubley

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I started playing golf competitively in grade 10, and by grade 12 I chose to play golf over hockey. I have been the number one on my school team since I was a sophomore. I had a pretty good season last season recording a scoring average of 75.6. It continued into the summer I played in some good events, and posted some decent scores however it is rare that I post very low numbers. At the end of the summer I went to see a new coach to produce some lower numbers, I saw him once and then couldn’t get back to see him before the end of the summer and got caught in between two swings. I ended up getting the club very underneath on behind me coming back. So lately I have been working on keeping the club in front of me coming back.

Picking Up Some Yardage Off The Tee: Online Students: John Lamendola Part 13

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I use Jordan Spieth and Charl Schwartzel as examples of players who are moderate in physical size but produce tremendous clubhead speed. In both cases we see the upper body begin to back up around P5, with the left leg beginning to push up off the ground and the pelvis elevating from P6 into and past impact. In our lesson before this we focused on foot pressure in transition, and stabilizing the right foot will help this downswing action occur.

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