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Si Woo Kim: Swing Analysis-Classic Form

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SW Kim’s swing is fun for me to look at as it demonstrates many of the items I teach regularly to any level of student. It starts with the set-up, nice and clean and angular without being tense. I often see players overdoing their attempt to have “good posture” by pulling the shoulder blades back and tensing up the lower back muscles, a sure recipe for a fatigued back and possible injury. The most important part of the set up is bending from the hips so that the pelvis is tilted and supported by the abdominal and oblique muscles. Kim’s…

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Harris English Swing Analysis: Great Model for Taller, Stronger Players

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After 3 poor years making less than a million dollars, English has righted the ship and has been playing great golf for the last 2, culminating in his win in Hawaii in a playoff over Joaquin Niemann. In this video I start by noting some major differences in his driver setup from 2014 to now, looking taller with his hands higher and his weight (pressure) more toward the balls of his feet, changes that I recently suggested to Brad Faxon. English has always looked ultra -smooth swinging the club, but it does appear that he has slowed his backswing even…

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What to Look for When Watching Hip Movement from Face On

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I spend a lot of time discussing and showing how the best players move their hips when observed from the down the line view. In fact, if you go back just a few weeks you’ll find 3 consecutive videos on hip depth and how players who I think have superior technique use the DTL “hip box”. But as I tell students who send in online videos for review from only DTL, watching from face on is every bit as important and telling as from DTL and in fact a full analysis is impossible with only one view available. In this…

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Brad Faxon In Person Lesson with Wayne D – Simplifying The Backswing

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After the online video I sent Brad regarding a new swing he sent to me, his interest was piqued enough to want to make the drive down to Boca from his home at Old Palm in Jupiter for a face to face. Brad has always been interested in trying to figure out how to get the club more on plane at the top and has taken lessons (paid lessons) from many instructors, which, as you can see by his first swings, have been unsuccessful in achieving any lasting results. There is an increasingly popular belief that fixing a backswing is…

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Brad Faxon Swing Analysis: Still Thinking about Uncrossing the Club at the Top

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Every couple of years Brad gets the bug to try to improve his swing and see if he can correct a few things he has seen forever that he feels cause his ball striking to not be a match to his superior short game and putting. I have worked with Brad off and on and every time I get him to plane the club at the top it feels too weird for him to play in competition with it and he goes back to what feels comfortable. In this video I go over some older swings of Brad’s (from the…

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Hip Depth Part 3: More Great Swings Staying in the Box

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I guess we will call this “Hip Box” week now that I’ve done 3 videos of top players who demonstrate similar patterns of hip and pelvic movement during the swing. There are variations of course, but in most cases we see added right hip depth almost immediately in the backswing with most players maintaining right knee flex, then a “crunch” or “dig” move that utilizes the ground to push the waist back and bend it forward as the lower body drives forward to shift pressure from left to right and rotates to get the hips well open by impact. I…

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Hip Depth Part 2: More examples and Details on How to Accomplish It

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In this video I give more examples of great players who maintained or increased their hip depth during their swings. I first noticed this phenomenon about 25 years ago when I was studying that great DTL view of Hogan in 1947. Growing up I was an exceptionally good player (1st Team All American in 1979) but my swing was modeled after the greats of the era, Watson, Weiskopf, Miller, Nicklaus, etc., all of whom swung relatively upright and drove their lower bodies well forward through impact while keeping their heads back in the classic (unfortunately) “reverse C” finish. I first…

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Hip Depth: Watch Tour Players Deepen in the Backswing and Stay Deep in the Forward Swing

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Anyone who has watched my videos over the years knows that I always comment on the “Hip Box” that I draw from the back of the butt and from the front of the knee line in the down the line view. Very few amateurs accomplish what the Tour players do regularly: get deeper in the backswing (the right cheek moving back behind the butt line while maintaining knee flex and keeping the head out on the forehead line) and then staying deep in the forward swing, creating room for the right arm to pass through impact unimpeded. Not every Tour…

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Dustin Johnson Swing Analysis: What Makes Him So Good?

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Dustin Johnson is the best player in the world right now without question. There is no one else with his firepower who is as good from 100 yards and in, and when you average over 315 yards off the tee and hit the ball fairly straight that means a lot of birdies are going to be on the card. Here we have a nice face on and down the line view courtesy of the boys at TaylorMade where we can see how DJ uses his freakishly athletic body to do things with his golf swing that others just aren’t capable…

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Carlos Ortiz Swing Analysis: Super Aggressive Hip Rotation Helps Clear Right Arm

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As I mention in the video, I played 9 holes with Carlos in 2017 in a group with Tony Romo, who I was teaching at the time, and Jordan Spieth, a good friend of Tony’s who was in between Fed Ex Cup tournaments and ranked #2 in the world at the time. I was obviously paying more attention to Tony and Jordan, but Carlos hit it right up with them and looked to have a strong game. He finished 24th on the Korn Ferry Tour money list in 2018 and took advantage by winning over a million dollars in 2019 and…

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