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Online Students: Georgia Wempe

Watching Georgia’s swing at regular speed you can tell from her smooth, aggressive tempo that she is strong and athletic and has worked on her swing mechanics, especially in her backswing. When she hits it fat and thin with such a good looking action it would be no surprise to me to hear the random viewer comment that her poor ball-striking would indicate that she was somehow mentally deficient, more specifically that she was “thinking too much” or that she was trying to be “too mechanical” and wasn’t “keeping it simple”. Such nonsense is par for the course from people…

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Online Students: Justin Baker

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Justin has made nice progress since starting with the website, and even made a trip down to see me in July, where we got some nice work in. He is still struggling with the transition move, and I noticed right away that he had left out the line on top of his head, which, in Justin’s case, happens to be one of the most important lines to be aware of. As you can see, Justin lowers nicely in the backswing with the loading action taking his head downward a bit, then, instead of lowering again to get the lower body…

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Online Students: Brandon Nagler Part 3

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Brandon has made some significant changes in his swing so far, and now is in position to make a major breakthrough in his technique. There wasn’t much he could about getting his right arm to move the right way and his hands more forward at impact until he got rid of some of his movement off the ball into a tilted back position as he approached the top of his swing. Now that he has stayed relatively more centered over the ball he should be able to use the sidearm throwing analogy and begin to lean the shaft more forward…

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Online Students: Neil Zhu

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It’s always an honor to be chosen to view and analyze the swing of a promising young player, and Neil Zhu certainly fits that bill. Neil is (I think) 10 years old in this video and already possessing the attributes of an excellent player. Neil’s father, Jason, was watching some of my swing analysis videos and thought that it would be a nice thing to get my opinion regarding Neil’s swing. My suggestions here would be the same if Neil had been 15 or 25 years old. The way his father implements them is another matter, and I recommend that…

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Online Students: Noah Wempe

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The word I use a number of times in this lesson is “subtle”. Noah has what would appear to the eye to be a technically sound swing. Without a proper analysis (which means video with a stable camera and shutter speed along with the V1 software technology) it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to pick out the right arm and sequence issues that I talk about here. Of course, these are my ideas and preferences as to what proper right arm movement and pivot sequence are, and as I see it Noah suffers from a combination of the…

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Online Students: Jeff Plunkett

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When a student goes to see a teacher they are going to find out what that teacher prefers right away. In Jeff’s case I prefer the right arm to have space, or “carry”, in the first part of the swing, so that when the shaft is parallel to the ground the hands have moved away from the right leg by at least a few inches, if not more. The right arm is not staying tight or straight, however, as this would hyper extend the left arm, but rather is soft and bending a bit until the left arm reaches parallel…

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Online Students: Ray Davis

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If you have been watching these lesson videos it should be apparent by now just how important the takeaway is to the overall pattern of a golf swing. The more I see the right arm lock up and stay overly straight in the first few feet of the swing the easier it is to predict the resulting pattern that emerges, ending with an approach to impact that can be both high and in-to-out with the either the driver or the irons. Ray is another classic example of such a pattern. The good news is that Ray has an excellent…

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Online Students: Dean Dunn-Rankin

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Dean has taken a couple of online lessons and has (according to Dean) improved quite a bit. Here we see that we are getting down to the major issue in his swing, which is that his swing pattern is arms away in the backswing, hands dropping back and down in transition while the legs work underneath him and out toward the ball. This would be a big change to accomplish without hands on work, but it is certainly worth a try. My suggestions include a deeper backswing so that an “out” move with the hands wouldn’t feel so “over the…

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Online Students: David Ferrell

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Here we see one of the most common ways to get the clubhead “stuck” behind the hands in the approach to impact. David starts with the “triangle” look at address, which always looks tight to me, and I encourage him to go the “home plate” address (a la Hogan) where both arms are bent at the elbow and only loosely tied to the body. David’s swing doesn’t show any effects of this tightness until left arm parallel in the backswing, where he begins to slide to the right and lift up. His lack of contact with the ground makes it…

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Online Students: Matthew Kontoginais

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Here’s a very sound swing by a powerful guy that could be jacked up to produce freakish distance and dialed down for control by freeing it up in the backswing with wider turn produced by greater overall trunk movement, initiated by a wider move with the upper body and an almost immediate deepening of the right hip. In order to feel this wider takeaway (more “carry” with both arms) I would first have him soften his arms at address to look more like “home plate” (elbows bent) than like the proverbial “triangle”. By concentrating on rotating his spine and including…

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