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Swing Analysis: Wayne D. Getting Ready for the PNC

It’s a Monday morning and before my weekly therapy session that usually leaves me unable to practice full swings I went out to the local public course to hit a few and took my camera with me. I am somewhat pleased with my progress of late as the set up change I made a few weeks ago is starting to pay some dividends. I don’t know if I will get this by the weekend, but I am on the right track and I expect to be playing some respectable golf in the near future.

Swing Analysis: Matt Kuchar 2016

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This was a fun one to do because it is rare to see obvious changes to a Tour player’s golf swing. Kuchar has gone from an idiosyncratic backswing that was as deep and behind him as anyone on tour to one where the hands, arms and club stay much more in front of his body. Much of this is accomplished by the combination of up-cocking the left wrist in the takeaway, moving the upper right arm more upward and away from the body than in the past, and restricting his lower body rotation in the backswing.

Swing Analysis: Brooks Koepka

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This is a great example of what I would call the “modern” swing, which incorporates restricted lower body movement in the backswing, plenty of both lateral and rotational movement in the forward swing, and a “drive/hold” release pattern, what I would previously term a “sustained” impact, where the right wrist stays bent well past impact as the clubface closes, causing the shaft to stay in line with the left arm until the hands move past the right leg in the follow through.

Swing Analysis: Danny Willett

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We already saw a nice down the line view of Willett on the 16th at Augusta and now we can look more closely at his swing with different clubs and from various angles. It is a quirky but highly efficient swing with an extremely early set of the wrists and almost zero hip rotation in the backswing. If you were looking for a classis demonstration of the “hands out” move and the flattening of the shaft in transition this would be it. The only negative I see has nothing to do with his swing but more with his fidgety address routine, which seemed to take differing amounts of time with each shot. It worked out here of course, but over time I would think he would want to make that more consistent.

Jordan Spieth and Danny Willett Putting (with Bernhard Langer extra)

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Here are a few things we can all learn from watching Jordan Spieth and Danny Willett putt at the Masters. Spieth has proven himself to have taken over from Tiger Woods as the best putter on the planet, and Willett putted like a genius on Sunday at Augusta to win his first major.

Swing Comparison: Danny Willett and Jordan Spieth

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I couldn’t resist doing this comparison as the two are hitting the same shot on the same hole with the same fixed camera from almost the exact same spot. They both hit incredible pressure iron shots, with Spieth going pretty much right at the flag and Willett favoring a bit more of a right to left trajectory. As with any comparison there are similarities (which we could all take note of and try to emulate as these are two of the best on the planet) and some striking differences. I always find these examinations to be interesting and educational. Enjoy.

Wayne D Working on it: April 2016

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This is another video showing me working out problems in my swing. My biggest issue over the last few years has been my driver and I firmly believe that a big part of my problem has been my inability to deepen my right hip enough to keep the left side of my pelvis from moving forward as I reach transition, which in turn keeps me too heavy on the front of the left foot and unable to clear the left side of my pelvis enough to be able to “get around” on the ball and have the swing exit on plane.

Swing Analysis: Pitch Shots from the Match Play Championship

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I thought I would do a compilation of different pitch shots the players hit at Austin CC in the recent Match Play championship. here has been some debate recently about “using the bounce” versus “using the leading edge”, and here we see that good players have to have both techniques in their arsenal and must be able to call them into play when needed.

Swing Analysis: Dustin Johnson 2016

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All I can say is “wow”. There is no swing like this on Tour, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it ever. Dustin externally rotates his right arm to the max right from the beginning of the swing and keeps it that way through the backswing, where he takes it past parallel with the driver, all the way past impact, and while he’s at it he forward flexes his left wrist from the get go and also keeps it that way past the ball in the ultimate example of a “drive/hold” release.

Swing Analysis: Bunker Technique at the WGC Doral

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This is an interesting compilation of various bunker techniques used by the players at the recent World Golf Championship event at Doral. The Blue Monster is renowned for its plethora of sand bunkers, and here we see the players face all sorts of different shots.

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