Videos: Swing Analysis | Wayne DeFrancesco

Swing Analysis: Shane Lowry- Old School Open Face and Cupped Left Wrist at the Top

With the recent ascendency of shut face, bowed left wrist top of the swing positions among the highest ranking players (DJ, Koepka, Schauffle, etc.) it was refreshing to see Lowry rotate his forearms and let the left wrist remain extended (cupped) to the top of the swing and well into the forward swing. From watching his right arm action, it would not be a stretch to think that he has limited external rotation ability in his right shoulder, or it may be that he has just always swung that way. His backswing is almost a carbon copy of Angel Cabrera’s,…

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Swing Analysis: Gary Woodland Demonstrating the Fade Pattern

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In this video we see U.S. Open Champ Gary Woodland keeping his arms and club in front of him in order to facilitate a left to right ball flight. He uses a right forearm takeaway (as the right wrist extends and rotates it slightly flattens the left wrist and turns the shaft onto the left forearm flying wedge {LFFW}) and moves everything out away from his body to achieve all of his upward progression by the time he gets to P3, something that DJ, Koepka and old Tiger swings also show. Woodland differs from the others when he down-cocks and…

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Swing Analysis: Matthias Schwab- European Tour 2nd Year Player Showing Excellent Form

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Schwab had a nice rookie season last year on the European Tour and has two top-10’s this year, including finishing 3rd in the BMW International a few weeks ago, which is where this particular swing comes from. Schwab is a direct contrast to Matthew Wolff in that while Wolff plays a reactive game that requires little conscious thought, Schwab is deliberate and disciplined in his rehearsals, set up procedure, and with his simple looking swing that follows conventional plane lines. Schwab had an excellent college career at Vanderbilt U, and was the highest European in the world amateur rankings when…

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S.H. Park and Nelly Korda: Swing Analysis- 2 Excellent Swings Produce 150+ MPH Ball Speed

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The women’s game is undergoing a welcome evolution as stylish swings like SH Park’s and Nelly Korda’s are producing greater distance (Park averaged 269 in 2018, Korda 263) as well as accuracy (both hit over 70% of fairways). Both Park and Korda are thin and wiry strong, and both look great standing over a shot. The swings you see here are textbook from the on-plane takeaways to nice positions at the top, excellent hand path in transition and nice lower body work with the hips staying deep and clearing hard. Park tends to drive her right leg a bit more…

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Anthony Kim: Remembering one of Golf’s Greatest Swings

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Anthony Kim had a great start to his career, playing on the Walker Cup, President’s Cup and Ryder Cup teams and winning 3 times before his 26th birthday. He was derailed by injuries and after withdrawing from his last Tour event in 2012 hasn’t hit a shot on Tour since, which is certainly a shame since he was a dynamic figure in the game and had one of the best swings you will ever see anywhere in any era. Here I run through the swings I compiled back in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and then discuss some of the things…

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Matt Wallace and Matthew Fitzpatrick: Demonstrating Extremes in Tempo from Slowest to Fastest

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

You’ve got to love a game where two players in the hunt to win a big event are so amazingly different when it comes to what golf people would call a “fundamental”, that being tempo. The other interesting thing here is that both golfers could be much closer in utilizing the same rhythm, which makes it crucial that we understand the difference between the two terms, which most of the time are used (incorrectly) interchangeably. When we speak of tempo, we are measuring the rate, or speed of the movement. Fitzpatrick’s tempo is fast, Wallace’s tempo is slow. In fact,…

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Wayne D. Swing Analysis: Identifying Physical Issues

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I’ve been playing better for a number of reasons, none of which are surprising: I’m able to practice without killing myself (I can hit balls for 90 minutes or so), I hit a million pitch shots at Boca Rio this winter which has made helped my up -and -down game, I got a TaylorMade Spider X putter (like DJ and McIlroy are using) that’s money, and I’m figuring out how to fight my lack of trunk mobility in my longer swings. My shorter irons, which don’t put as much stress on my pivot, have become quite accurate, while my misses…

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Jon Rahm: How Great Lower Body Action Makes Possible Variations in Arm and Wrist Movement

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Most viewers of Jon Rahm are mesmerized by what he does with his upper body, notably his short, oddly shaped swing that seems to have no depth in the backswing, an extremely bowed left wrist, and an exaggeratedly laid off shaft at the top. But in this video, I show that what allows all that to work is Rahm’s lower body technique, which is just about flawless. Rahm is a thick guy and taking the left arm across the chest would probably feel too tight, so it’s not surprising that he lets the hands travel away from his body in…

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Jazz Janewattananond- Steep to Flat to Steep

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

When I first saw Jazz hit a shot on the telecast of the PGA Championship at Bethpage, I had a flashback to my student Willy Wilcox, whose quirky looking swing that I saw for the first time on television in 2015 fascinated me immediately. Willy’s swing has a distinct pattern: hands and arms inward early in the backswing, shaft moving more vertical mid-backswing, then a hard kick to flatten the shaft in transition. The overall effect was whip-like, and the freedom of the foot movement and huge right-side bend through impact was distinctive. Jazz’s swing has a lot of the…

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Wayne D. Making Modifications and Playing Better

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I’ve been feeling better and getting stronger and have had time to practice so it was nice to see the work pay off in the Middle Atlantic Section Match Play qualifier on a tough track just outside of Richmond, Va. I shot 2-under 70 to place second in a field of 51, 11 of whom were heading to the National Championship being contested this week in South Carolina. My ball striking was decent, short game and putting outstanding. In this video I show and talk about the changes I have made, which for the most part take me closer to…

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