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If you have watched a number of these “lessons of the week” you can probably see why I describe my job as constantly engaging. The sheer variety of students and their particular issues with the game demand my total focus and application of all the skills I have learned over 25+ years of teaching. There is no “mailing it in” or “method” teaching where everyone gets the same treatment and prescription. In fact, every student brings with them different circumstances, histories, ability levels, goals and desires, and I’ve got an hour to analyze, diagnose, and come up with ideas to help them understand what they are doing, what they should do, and how they should go about doing that.
Chris is a first time lesson who has been a consistent lesson taker in the past, but has come off of a back injury that has kept him from playing for almost 9 months. Now that he feels better he wants to start off with a new opinion about what should be trying to do with his swing, and certainly after watching him hit a few shots then analyzing the video I have come up with at least 3 major items for him to work on. What is rare about this particular lesson is Chris’ ability to incorporate the suggested changes almost immediately, certainly something I rarely see but welcome wholeheartedly. He is a classic case of “in-to-out”, which usually (and definitely in this case) means dropping hands, right arm behind the body, and shaft stuck behind the arms on the approach. I think you’ll find the “after” swing to be a startling transformation, although as you will see it does not automatically address the “flip” release pattern that he has been utilizing to help save his shots. There will be much work to do specifically in this area, but we accomplished quite a bit in this hour.
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