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Online Lesson: Jaime Gylan PGA- Better Posture Would Help an Already Excellent Swing

I’ve known Jaime since he was in high school (that was a while ago), and I’m always proud when one of my former students becomes a highly respected teaching professional. Jaime, like I did in my prime, works hard on his game and would like to start seeing better results in his club professional tournaments. He has always had a nice swing, and here I make some simple suggestions to try out to see if we can get it to work better. I put him side by side with Charl Schwartzel, partly because of his grip (I think it’s one…

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Online Lesson Follow-Up: Victor Herak

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

It’s always nice to see an online lesson make a difference right away in a student’s swing. Here you see Victor take 4 suggestions from his first lesson, incorporate them, and send in a new batch of swings with a much-improved impact. If you go back to the previous lesson you will note that I wanted Victor to center his setup, move the ball position a ball or two more back in his stance, get a bit deeper and more extended with the right arm in the backswing, and focus on adding left wrist flexion sooner in the forward swing.…

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Online Lesson: Brandon Deggins PGA- Swing Shape and Hip Depth

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

My name is Brandon Deggins. I am an Assistant Golf Professional at TPC River Highlands. I am mostly self-taught. I was a decent player once upon a time, but that was 6 years ago and 20lbs lighter. Most of my golf now is a sporadic 4-5-hole loop when a member asks or late in the afternoon after my shift. I typically shoot anywhere from mid to high 70’s. However, I do not do anything spectacularly well. I struggle with consistency with the driver. With irons, I do not compress the ball near as well as I should. The miss with…

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Payne Stewart Swing Analysis: Old School Swing Should Have Led to a Long Career

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Payne Stewart would be 63 (born January 30, 1957) had he not tragically died in a plane crash when he was 42 years old. His golf swing was a throwback to the days of Bobby Jones when any thought of restriction was nonexistent. Payne had more backswing hip turn and more total lateral movement (off the ball in the backswing, then forward in the downswing) than anyone on the PGA Tour today. In fact, no one is even close. You hear many words and phrases to describe great rhythm and tempo such as “fluid” or “syrupy” , “smooth”, effortless” etc.,…

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Online Lesson: Victor Herak- Backswing Extension and Left Wrist Flexion Earlier in Downswing

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Message to Wayne Hi Wayne – Some context: I’m 63, play about 10 rounds per year, hcap about 8-ish. Though not playing much now I still like to work on my swing. Re swing: I get roll-y a bit in takeaway and get laid-off/flat-ish at top, and for me it seems to help me get the club down in front of me better When I get the club outside my hands on the takeaway better and get the shaft more down the line at the top it seems that the club then gets coming in from too much inside…

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86 Major Championship Winners: Left Wrist Position at the Top of the Backswing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

With seemingly more players winning on the PGA Tour with flat to bowed left wrist angles at the top I thought it would be interesting to go through my accumulated model swings to see how all the major winners I have film of looked at that position. I counted 86 major champions (I stuck to only the men) from Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen up to Collin Morikawa and Bryson DeChambeau. Here is what I found. One note of importance, and I will go over this in the video, is my opinion of what these categories of wrist positions look…

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Bryson DeChambeau Pitching: The Short Game Technique that Helped Win the U.S. Open

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I know you were expecting another look at Bryson’s swing, but I thought I would do something a bit different after watching him get it up and down over and over at Winged Foot. Here we see two pitch shots, one from an angle well outside the ball and one from directly down the line, which illustrate how Bryson uses a smaller version of the body movement he utilizes in his full swing to hit these short pitches. I constantly hear advice from instructors to “keep the legs quiet” when pitching, but here we can see that Bryson does not…

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Lesson of the Week: Payne McEntee- Many Factors Contribute to Overly Outward Hand Path

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Payne is an accomplished junior who came to me after his former coach changed locations. The first time I saw Payne we worked on only wedges, but even in that shorter swing I took note of the outward loop in his transition. When we looked at it on video it was obvious to him what was going on, and I was hoping that by just pointing it out he could change it. Every now and then a player will do that, change immediately, and usually the player will be young and just hearing the information for the first time. But…

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Online Lesson: Jim Skeele- Working on Swing Shape

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Message to Wayne: Wayne, I’m looking forward to your analysis. I am 100% self-taught and am currently playing around a 1. 60 years old and still moving it well in my mind. One thing is for sure: being self-taught and a 1 handicap at age 60 is pretty darn good. After watching the swings, I knew that a simple change could make for huge differences because so much of the swing is excellent. Jim has a common swing pattern: shaft swings low and behind him from P1 to P2, gets well across the line by P4, and to uncross it and…

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Online Lesson: Mark Woolway- Getting Rid of Excess Backswing Movement

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Message to Wayne Hi Wayne, I’m 47 years old, been playing for a few years, based in the SF Bay Area, and want to get a lot better a lot faster. I’m willing to do whatever it takes. I’ve taken lessons from just about every notable instructor in the Western US. I’m a 13 handicap now, down from a 16 a few weeks ago. I’m a big fan of your YouTube videos and looking forward to working with you. Thanks very much. Mark can advance his game in a big way by eliminating excess lifting and twisting in the backswing,…

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