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Playing For Money: Matt Shubley- Old Habits are Hard to Break

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I’ve been working with Matt since he was in college in 2017, and he has come along nicely, earning status on the Canadian Tour (he is from Canada), although finishing 71st on the money list this past year wasn’t good enough to avoid Canadian Q-School. As you will see in the video Matt’s swing can vary from month to month, and his tendency is to revert to the things we work on the most, namely leaning left in the takeaway and crossing the line at the top, issues which eventually lead to his getting the club behind him on the…

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Playing for Money: Kyle Rybicki- Trying to Turn the Draw into a Fade

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While there is nothing wrong with a draw, having only a draw in the bag that sometimes turns into an over-draw that ends up left of the target is not a recipe for success, especially for someone with high ball speed like Kyle. Kyle told me right off the bat that he was missing left and wanted to know why he couldn’t a decent fade no matter how he tried. Watching the swing in slow motion I could see that the club was behind his hands at P6, which makes it quite hard to start the ball left and move…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley- Trying not to Cross the Line at the Top

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Matt has been wrestling with this backswing issue from the 1st time I saw him some years ago. If we didn’t think that it contributed to his inconsistent ball striking, we wouldn’t bother trying to change it. Matt goes back and forth between getting the club stuck behind his hands at P6 and sometimes approaching from out to in. In this case he is hitting too many weak cuts and is still concerned about the way the club arrives at the top and changes direction into the downswing. Many of my students have issues with over-straightening the right leg in…

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Playing for Money: Duncan Nix, PGA- Lack of Hip Depth Causing Steep Approach

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Message to Wayne I have put a driver and iron swing in the above links. I am a club professional but play mini tours and such trying to continue to develop my game and take it as far as I can. Before I turned pro, I was a +4 handicap. Played in college where I finished at Georgia Southwestern. Struggling ball flight is mostly a pull with the irons, with the occasional push cut. I tend to get steep divots where the toe digs too much. Driver tends to be inconsistent, but a lot of length of the tee averaging…

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Playing for Money: Austin Kendziorski-Back at It

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Austin has taken an extended break after turning pro last year, first due to poor play and then the Coronavirus, but now is back at it and trying to improve. Austin is incredibly strong (I watched him hit 4 drives that flew 330 when I played 9 holes with him), but that amount of power can get you into trouble when you don’t have control of it. I have always wanted Austin to make his swing more compact, taking advantage of his strength knowing that even if he gears it down he will be plenty long and always have the…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley-Needing Earlier Left Forearm Supination in the Downswing

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As usual Matt’s swing looks quite good (he is a very good player), especially since he hasn’t been able to get out and practice due to the virus, but his tendency to get the club behind his hands at P6 is still one of his main issues. Over time we have added lateral movement to transition and the forward swing and have almost eliminated his crossing the line at the top. With the club on plane and the shaft flattening in transition, Matt has to now focus on rolling the left arm down the chest by supinating the forearm earlier…

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Playing for Money: Aaron Wilson- Working on an On-Plane Takeaway and Less Flippy Impact

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Aaron is a professional playing the Minor League mini tour here in Florida, and two of my older students took a liking to him and set him up with a couple of lessons with me. He has had some good results in the past, but he reports that he is quite erratic in scoring mostly due to his ball striking, especially with the driver. He is thin but quite strong and has a fast swing, and he wanted an opinion on his general technique to see if he could become a more consistent ball striker with trajectory control of his…

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Playing for Money: Derek Gillespie- Working on Old Habits

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Derek is a good example of what professional golfers go through when they try to play for a living: it’s incredibly hard, and when you’re a good player but can’t quite break through Q-School and get status it gets frustrating to the point where you consider not doing it anymore. Derek was just about there when he entered and won a tournament in Puerto Rico that qualified him for the PGA Tour event opposite the WGC. He didn’t strike it well there and missed the cut, and on his way back north decided to stop by for a look. I…

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Playing for Money: Lesson with Darrell Kestner, PGA: Looking for a Less Steep Approach and Less Flip at Impact

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Darrell Kestner is the long-time head golf professional at the Deepdale Golf Club in Long Island New York, and while you may not have heard of him if you’re not from around there he has compiled perhaps the greatest playing record of any club professional in history (this means not former tour pros or college golf coaches, but guys who do the daily work at green grass golf courses). Darrell has played in 8 U.S. Opens (everyone knows how hard it is to qualify for those), 11 PGA Championships (meaning 11 top 20 or 25 finishes in the National Club…

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Playing for Money: Brett Walker- Working on the Takeaway, Backswing Plane, and Right Arm Control

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Brett had some nice finishes in the PGA Winter Series tournaments last year after seeing me a few times but didn’t play much this summer due to his job, so he wanted to get a look/see as soon as he got back to Florida and entered some events. Brett has the quintessential tour player body (tall, lean and strong) and my goal for him is to simplify his swing by working on 3 things: keeping the club above the plane in the takeaway by using the right forearm takeaway option (he was already mostly there in this regard), keeping the…

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