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Message to Wayne Hi Wayne, I purchased an online lesson. I am a member of your site and an avid viewer of your swing videos. Well done! I was a good player, now I am 55 and trying to get my game in order. I did not play for the last two years and recently had a hip replacement. The replacement was successful, and I now can swing a club. I see a couple of Wayne D issues with not staying in the box (although a significant improvement from three years ago) and not shallowing the club in transition as much as I would like. I look forward to your comments and I will keep grinding.
It’s evident that Chris has learned some things from the website as he has picked out two of the major points I make in the video. This is an excellent, fundamentally sound swing, but it could be stronger at impact with the irons. I’d like to see Chris set up with a bit more pressure on the balls of his feet, always a good idea for anyone with a tendency to move the pelvis toward the ball and out of the DTL hip box. In the backswing I would suggest for Chris to try to load against the right side of the FO hip box rather than externally rotating (I think I said internal in the video. My bad. That gets confusing) while adding right hip flexion (getting deeper) and maintaining right knee flex. If he loads more into the right hip he could maintain or increase that depth in transition, which would be the opposite of coming out of the box toward the ball. As he does this, he could also encourage more aggressive right forearm supination and right shoulder external rotation (side arm throwing motion) while maintaining left forearm pronation, all of which would help the shaft flatten early in the downswing. When the shaft feels like it is coming from behind the player with the face open there needs to be more left forearm supination and left wrist flexion from P5 to P7 to square the face. I have found that this combination produces more forward lean at impact and more sustained line of compression past impact.
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