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Patrick Reed Swing Analysis: Swing Changes Simplify Release Action

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

The story from the TV announcers during the Torrey Pines event was that Patrick Reed had begun working with David Leadbetter and that Reed was getting accustomed to the swing changes.  He was a bit vague about what they were working on, but he did mention trying to get his hands to release more in tandem with his body.  Reed in the past has played with a cupped left wrist and an extremely open face well into the downswing, but his genius in squaring the face without much if any lateral hip movement is obvious.  In the new swing it…

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Si Woo Kim: Swing Analysis-Classic Form

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

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

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

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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Last Week on the PGA Tour: Jon Rahm- Tour’s Fastest Swing

By Wayne | Videos: This Week On Tour

There are several notable things about Jon Rahm’s swing, but the one that gets my attention is how incredibly fast it is. If you are familiar with John Novosel’s “Tour Tempo” you know that the average Tour swing takes just over 1 second from the time the clubhead first moves back in the takeaway to the exact moment of impact. Measuring swings with a video camera capturing at 30 frames per second and counting the number of clicks of the remote, Novosel found that the majority of Tour caliber players utilized a ratio of 3:1, and also that within the…

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This Week on the Tour: Eric Van Rooyen: 3rd at the WGC- Great Golf Swing

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I just did an analysis of this fellow’s swing not too long ago (click here if you haven’t seen it), but I like it so much I had to do it again after watching the final round of the WGC in Mexico. He just looks so solid in every aspect of the game I can’t see him not becoming a perennial top 10 player, but then again, it’s golf, and who the hell really knows? In the video I point out some interesting things in Van Rooyen’s swing, most notably his use of a toe-up takeaway and a generally more…

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This Week on Tour: Last Week: Kevin Streelman

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This was a fun video to do as Kevin was a student of mine the last time he won on Tour in 2014. We worked together for a year and a half, during which time Kevin won about 3 million dollars, which, if you look at Kevin’s career, is about average. He is one of the most consistent players on Tour year to year, having won between a million and a million seven in 10 of the 13 years he has played, the other 3 years being $890,000, 2 million and 3 million. He is not the greatest putter or…

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This Week on Tour: Nick Taylor: Solid Swing and Great Routine Produce a Win at Pebble

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Nick Taylor’s career is that of a classic “grinder”, a guy who was the best college player in 2010, got on Tour the hard way in 2015 going through the Canadian Tour and Web.com qualifying school, and has managed to stay out there since, winning once in 2015 and barely keeping fully exempt status in 2018 and 2019. In a final round at Pebble Beach playing with Phil Mickelson it seemed inevitable that he would crack, but when the wheels starting coming off early on the back 9 he holed a pitch at a perfect time and finished it off…

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