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Online Students: Chuck Zellner Part 3

As you will see in the video Chuck has made some nice improvement in his lower body action, but since last lesson he has started dropping his hands and arms behind him in transition, which we all know makes getting the shaft forward at impact quite difficult. I encourage Chuck to keep trying to center himself over the ball instead of leaning to the right, and also to load less to the right in the backswing.

Online Students: Erik Ludtke Part 3

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As you will see from the video Erik has a very good idea of what he needs to work on. In this analysis I suggest a more on plane takeaway achieved by cocking the wrists more vertically as the trunk moves the arms, and the hands moving slightly more straight back. I also emphasize the spacing of the right upper arm away from the body at address and into the start of the backswing. From there the big thing is the pelvic movement.

Online Students: Mike Macaluso

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In Mike’s email that came with the videos he stated that he had an amateur event to play in soon and was looking for something that might help out his “mess of a swing” (his own words). I always like to give a thorough analysis when people pay for an online lesson so most times there are going to be too many things to practice all at once. I usually suggest what I think the priorities should be but that is really more up to the student to decide after fiddling with each item a bit.

Online Students: Michael Beaty Part 2

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Michael has a very clear idea of what his problems are, but not a clear idea of how to fix them. From the video you will see that he has an excellent swing, and that his most glaring issue is just what he thought it was, the use of his lower body in the downswing. I compare him with Rory and the difference there along with the explanation will (I hope) help him retain his hip depth and to clear his left leg much better, which in turn will allow him to get his hands more forward at impact and to sustain his bent right wrist/flat left wrist past impact.

Online Students: Rick James Part 3

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So overall though ball striking is showing signs of new potential. I had a 5 round run in April at home club with stroke avg. of 70.8 (par 71, course rating 72.1). I have stats for last 5-6 years and I tried to find a similar run on same course, it was the best, closest was one last Aug maybe 4 rounds at a few over aggregate, but in looking at GIRs that Aug run was ~ 10 avg. and the one last month was just under 14

Online Students: Kyle Parsons

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Kyle’s swing is a great example of a technically sound, on plane motion that could be made to work better by improving his release action. Kyle straightens his right arm at impact, which in the irons causes the hands to “throw” the clubhead at the ball, resulting in some erratic contact due to the fast rate of clubface rotation through impact. With the driver this same release pattern has Kyle swinging well out to the right with again a loss of clubface stability.

Online Students: Conner Kumpula Part 6

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If you’ve been with the website for any length of time you have seen this swing analyzed before, and as usual it is one of the best I work with. Connor’s ball striking has improved over time and he is well on his way to being a consistent winner in the college ranks, but is still hampered by a tendency to block a shot to the right every now and then at inopportune moments. In this video I focus on something that I struggle with in my own swing, and as I try to work through my issues now that I have more physical mobility I have a better eye for the problem.

Online Students: Phil Pfeiffer Part 3

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In this lesson you will see Phil over-doing some of the things we have discussed in his first two lessons, which I think is a very good thing as changes are rarely made unless the player exaggerates new ideas and feeling. Phil’s trigger movement here is a major deepening of the pelvis, but as he loads he drops down and back into his heels and his head backs away from the original forehead line.

Online Students: Pablo del Olmo, PGA

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This is a cool lesson to watch because Pablo (who spent time trying to play for a living and is now teaching) has a great looking swing and it’s only after some study in slow motion that I was able to pick out why he might struggle a bit with his ball striking and offer suggestions as to how to improve it. Of course, we have seen that many times, but the thing about this particular swing is the subtlety of the issues with sequence and right arm movement.

Online Students: Rick James Part 2

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The first thing you notice about Rick’s swing is the similarities in body type, set-up, and swing rhythm to Ben Hogan. Upon further inspection, however, we find a big difference in the pivot motion, one which, because of its importance to the swing, is enough of a problem to keep Rick from hitting the ball at the level he desires.

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