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Playing for Money: Jason Gandy Part 2

Jason’s second lesson finds him still struggling with the high approach, and Jason reports in that his divots are steep and left and the contact glancing. He describes the hit as a “swipe”, and is frustrated that while improving his hand path he still has not been able to shallow the approach to impact. I think you will find this lesson interesting as I talk about maintaining width in the downswing, and the effect that narrowing too soon in transition has on the eventual routing of the arms and hands into impact. I put Jason side by side with Adam…

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Playing for Money: Jason Gandy

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Jason is a young player just out of college who has aspirations to play golf for a living. As you will see here he has a wonderful, fluid, powerful looking action that appears to have all the potential to be successful. Jason, however, has been struggling with his ball striking, or at least the consistency of his ball striking. Many players with nice moves like Jason can hit great shots with all the quality of a Tour player, but not enough times in a round to shoot the kind of numbers necessary to make money. What we see here is…

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Playing for Money: Nick Antonelli

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Nick has been in Florida trying to earn money on the mini-tours and ready himself for Q-School each year, but has not had the kind of success he was hoping for. He played a few times with one of my students, Ben Silverman, and decided to come see me for some help. As you will see, Nick has what most of the young players have these days, a great build for the game and a fluid, powerful motion. When length is not an issue it all boils down to control, and that’s where swing analysis and technique work come into…

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Playing for Money: Jeremy Wells Part 2

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Jeremy has moved to the Fort Myers area in Florida and is now playing the mini-tours full time. He has had some success so far, but has struggled a bit with his ball striking while getting acclimated with playing and practicing every day. As you will see Jeremy has a technically sound swing, and in this particular lesson I choose to work on his posture and the flow of his swing instead of anything position oriented. Jeremy has a great build for the game and is a wiry strong guy, but it just appeared to me that he was so…

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Playing for Money: Jeremy Wells

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Jeremy’s swing keeps getting better, and our hope is that better ball striking will lead to some check cashing down on the mini-tours in Florida this winter and moving forward. As you can see (and have seen in our videos before) Jeremy has excellent action and produces a nice line of compression at impact, but his accuracy and consistency have been a little off, and at Q-School 1st stage the erratic ball striking led to him missing by a few despite a fine 67 in the final round. At this level the changes are going to be fairly subtle…

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Playing for Money: Clayton Rotz Part 2

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I think you will enjoy this 2 hour session with Clayton. He has been a bit unlucky on the physical side of things lately, having contracted Lyme’s Disease and then breaking a bone in his thumb, but he is on the mend and back playing. His ball striking has been erratic, and looking at some of his old swings before he got to this lesson, I decided that it was time to tighten up his action and get his swing under control. His first couple of swings just reinforced what I was already thinking, so I started with the idea…

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Playing for Money: Clayton Rotz

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I have been teaching Clayton since he was about 14 years old, about 9 years now. He won numerous junior tournaments and played in two U.S. Amateurs as a teenager. He pretty much wasted his college career (he did win the Cardinal Amateur a few years back during the summer) but is now a professional and playing the Hooters Tour, where he has made a bit more than 50 % of his cuts and has been in the hunt a few times. He had his best result to date a few weeks back when he won the Pennsylvania Open by…

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Playing For Money: Daryl Chappell

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Here we have a mini-tour player who has been struggling with his ball striking. Daryl played a few rounds with another of my students, Chris McCartin, and was impressed with Chris’s swing, so he decided to come up and have me check out his action.

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