By Wayne | Videos: Online Students
Here I give you the opportunity to stop the video and do your own analysis. I don’t think it would be such a great idea to have all of you post your analyses on the site as that might make Jason’s head explode, so for this one you can discuss elements of how mine was different but don’t post the whole thing.
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You might think from the title of this video that I have created fictional commentary from our man Brandel Chamblee to make him look ridiculous. As you will see, this is not the case, as Brandel does a fine job without my having to make up anything. Face it, there is no one on the planet with enough balls to say Tiger Woods “lacks versatility”, and that is not because no one other than Chamblee is courageous enough to speak the truth, it’s because the statement is so outrageously asinine that no one else would ever even think to say…
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By Wayne | Videos: Online Students
Ryan has been a faithful member of the website for quite some time, and he has done some very nice work on his swing, especially when it is viewed from down the line. He compresses nicely on the backswing, bring the club up smartly on the shaft plane, and gains depth with the hips while moving symmetrically with the legs and knees. His shoulder, arm, and wrist angles are all quite good as he approaches the top of the swing, but unfortunately the top doesn’t’ come soon enough and the swing goes back overly long, causing some sequence problems and…
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I feel as though I am doing a great disservice to everyone by not paying more attention to our man Brandel Chamblee and his incessantly negative commentary regarding Tiger Woods, Sean Foley, teaching in general, and whatever other subjects he might stumble upon. The fact is that I don’t have time to watch The Golf Channel when Brandel is on, so I am appealing to the WDGLC members to send me clips of Brandel when you catch him saying something that you think I might find interesting and worthy of my own comment and/or rebuttal. Chamblee has no counterpoint to…
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By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week
This should really be an interesting series of lessons so I encourage you to watch the progression. CJ needs to pass his Player Ability Test (PAT) in order to continue his quest to become a Class-A PGA Professional. The scoring requirement does not seem that daunting (the needed score is around 156 or so) unless you are not that good and you don’t play in tournaments because of that very fact. Now, you might ask why someone who wasn’t a good golfer would want to be a PGA Professional, and it would be a good question. Actually, a better question…
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By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week
I’ve been working with Zach for some time and we thought we were getting some good progression with his swing, but as he got closer to the time he was going to get back to competing he began to regress a bit and return to some of his old habits. Zach is tremendously strong and flexible and produces a lot of power for a smallish frame. His main problem is control, and we have concentrated on getting the shaft not to cross at the top in order to simplify his downswing and improve his approach to impact. He produces a…
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By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
I actually had some time to practice today so I took a few pictures and did this video. It took me an hour to hit 100 balls, alternating between the new drill I posted this week (Takeaway-stop/ then finish and hit) and hitting full shots with no stop. My main goal was to stop lifting in the middle portion of my backswing, and stopping at shaft parallel to the ground allows me to concentrate on starting from there by driving my right hip back, flexing more into my right leg, and “catching” the backswing with a 45 degree drive off…
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By Wayne | Videos: Online Students
Here is an excellent swing that lacks what I would call “dynamics”, meaning that watching the wrist and hand action I could see that it just wasn’t’ going to produce the kind of speed that the rest of the mechanics would seem to almost guarantee. The hands and wrists are hugely important elements to the production of speed (among other things) and my advice to Kerry here is to free up his hands by cupping the left wrist a bit at the top (a la Webb Simpson) and then creating more of an angle between his left arm and the…
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By Wayne | Videos: Faults, Fixes and Drills
I created this drill to help me attack a major issue in my own swing, which is also an issue a number of the web site members have. This concerns the move required to load and compress in the back-swing while keeping the hips nice and deep creating room for the right arm in front of the body in the forward swing. I found this drill actually helped me create a greater amount of “catch” and I started hitting it further than I ever have before. If rising up or not compressing in the back-swing is an issue in your…
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In case you hadn’t noticed, the two Senior Tour players I have been working with are playing extremely well at Turnberry in the British Senior Open. Dick Mast continues to amaze at age 61, firing 66-73 to finish T-4 after the 2nd round. Gary Hallberg played one of the most amazing rounds in tournament and Tour history by firing a 63 on a blustery day in which only one other player, Fred Couples, broke 70, and Gary’s round was 5 better than Freddie’s 68. That is unheard of stuff, especially at a major. Anyway, just wanted to make sure…
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