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It is amazing that at 27 years of age and after having missed 3 full years of action on the PGA Tour with a fracture in his lower back Patrick Cantlay has risen to #6 in the World Golf Rankings. In this video I look at his swing now versus 2011 just before he turned […]
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It’s always educational to look at the technique of successful PGA Tour players, especially one as consistent over the past 18 years as Pat Perez, who has won at least $900,000 in 14 of the 18 years since gaining his card in 2002. Perez turned pro in 1997 after playing for a national championship team […]
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I love seeing players of my stature (I’m 5’8, 165 lbs.) like Collin Morikawa (he lists as 5’9”, 160 lbs.) achieve success on the PGA Tour especially when it seems like so many of the best players these days are much bigger, over 6 feet tall and over 200 lbs., not much of it being […]
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In this video I look at the swings of 4 Tour players from last months tournament at the 2019 Greenbrier Classic. I focus on where their shaft is when the left arm is parallel to the ground in the downswing (P5). The eventual winner Joaquin Niemann is the flattest and has the most shaft shift […]
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I have done Niemann’s swing not that long ago but here he is at 20 years of age winning a Tour event by 6 shots and the swing just blows my mind. I’m all for lowering in the swing (this website is called Pivot Compression after all) but Niemann takes it to another level, and […]
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It was a great match between John Augenstein, senior at Vanderbilt University, and Andy Ogletree, senior at Georgia Tech, in the finals of the 2019 U.S. Amateur. Augenstein led most of the match after shooting 65 in the morning round but Ogletree played the last 34 holes without a bogey and finally caught and passed […]
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I am hearing a lot of questions from everyone about the “new” idea that the “Sam Snead Squat” is the way to go, which is another way of saying (erroneously, but I’ll get to that) that the initial pivot move in transition is entirely rotational, one which produces a right leg action that “holds” the […]
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This guy looks to me like a sure bet to be a top 10 player in the world. He’s big, perfectly built, flexible as heck, and has developed not only a great swing but it solid in all other facets of the game, with his best stat being his putting. Here I focus on his […]
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Hovland has made an auspicious debut on the PGA Tour, coming within a couple of shots of securing his Tour card after only 10 events, making 8 cuts and earning just under $650,000. His swing is unconventional, but the pattern he is utilizing is becoming more prevalent with each class of college players trying to […]
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Who would have figured that a guy who had never won on Tour, barely kept his card in 2018, and had missed 5 of the last 9 cuts would play his way into the history books by becoming only the second player (Lee Trevino was the first, over 40 years ago) to ever win a […]
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