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Online Students: John Lamendola Part 4

I’ve been working with John for just over a year now and he has made great strides improving his swing and his ball striking. John’s backswing and pivot movement has improved tremendously, and in this lesson I focus on a few details that I think could help his swing retain width as it gets to the top and consequently allow his left arm to respond to his pivot rotation and move his hands more out toward the ball instead of behind him.

Online Students: Jake Marriott Part 2

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“I had a decent summer. Hit it really well in the beginning of the summer and actually struggled mostly with my putting but the ball striking got a little shaky towards the end. I missed the cut in a web.com event by 1 putting horribly. I was medalist in my US AM qualifier but struggled at the Am mostly off the tee, missing the cut by 2.” – Jake was down to Florida to see me in January, so I took this opportunity to compare how he was swinging at the end of that session to the swings he just sent.

Online Students: Conner Kumpula Part 7

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If you haven’t watched Connor’s online lessons from the first one you should really go back and check each one of them out. The improvement really shows that online work can help even the best players, and as you watch Connor’s swing it’s hard not to agree that it’s one of the best you will see. He definitely has the ability to take his game to the next level, and what we see here are a couple of minor suggestions that will hopefully keep his swing progressing.

Online Students: William Stepp

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William’s swing reminds me of Hogan (I’m not sure if William has patterned his swing after Ben’s or not), so I take the opportunity in this video to put Hogan’s swing side by side with William’s in order to illustrate what I believe would be a technique change that would help an already excellent move. As we have seen over and over in these online lessons the way the right arm works in the swing is a huge deal

Online Students: Erik Ludtke Part 4

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Erik is definitely making progress with his swing, and here we identify the major issue which, if he can correct it, will significantly improve his mechanics and his ball striking. Erik stands with a flared right foot, which allows him to rotate the right leg and pelvis too much in the backswing. Coupled with an upright stance that does not incorporate much pelvic tilt at address the over rotation and lack of depth cause the left side of the pelvis to move forward and down, which in turn pressures the front of both feet and makes it hard to rotate into the forward swing without driving the right leg up underneath him.

Online Students: Chuck Zellner Part 4

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Chuck has made great strides with his backswing, which makes it possible now to focus on transition and the approach to impact. Chuck has a pronounced pause at the top of his swing as he tries to make sure he flattens the shaft (which he does), but the flattening does not seem to be the result of the dynamic movement of his pivot initiating the forward motion with the lower body pulling the left arm against the chest, but rather a purposeful laying off of the shaft in an independent movement.

Online Students: Billy Lincoln

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As you will see in the video Billy has made some tremendous improvements since I saw him in person in Arizona back in December. The further suggestions here focus on an idiosyncratic move that Billy has in transition when he shrugs his shoulders, dropping his chin into his chest and tightening the right bicep, which then does not allow the right arm to straighten at all in the first part of the downswing.

Online Students: John Krystynak Part 3

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Here we see a great example of just how difficult it is to change a swing pattern from the beginning. John has made nice strides with his lower body movement, and that is a difficult thing to accomplish. His main issue here is still the way his right arm and shoulder works right from the start of the swing.

Online Students: Matthew Laydon

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Ah, golf. What it does to us all, at least those of us who have this insane desire to control the ball and to beat everyone we are playing with. It is my firm opinion that all mental issues with the game start with technique that doesn’t work. Notice I didn’t say “bad” technique, because lots of stuff that you would think would be bad functions marvelously, but technique that doesn’t work. Some players can seemingly make anything work.

Online Students: Tom Smith

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I really enjoy the website and have really learned a lot from your videos. I am 58 and have recently retired so would like to spend more time refining my swing and lowering my handicap. I have a number of issues early in my swing that have proved challenging to correct. Club under the shaft plane, not using my trunk to initiate the swing which progresses to a down swing where the club comes in high and gets stuck.

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