By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
This season I am making some changes to my own swing to extend my playing career. Here is detail a change I am really very excited about testing out in tournament golf.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Articles: Lessons with Stan
It has been 6 years since I gave Stan a lesson, a half hour of torture full of so many memorable moments that I have been recounting them over beers ever since. My guess was that anything that I attempted to teach Stan was lost in a matter of moments, since his retention rate was around 10 seconds, or the time it took him to rake another ball over to machine gun out onto the range.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
Here is a look at the set up, routine, stroke, rhythm and tempo of the man who can roll it better than anyone else on the planet.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
Tiger Woods arrived at the 2010 Masters with a swing that somewhat resembles his action of several years ago.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis
An interesting mix of modern and classic. High hands but a laid off shaft, then a left arm “anti-stuck” move. Poulter is making a serious name for himself for other than his clothes.
Continue readingHello and welcome the Wayne DeFrancesco Golf Learning Center. This is not an infomercial. There are no quick fixes here. Our goal is to provide information that will help you improve your game over time. Understanding that learning golf requires a long term commitment to the game and all of its facets is the first […]
Continue readingBy Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week
This video is of a lesson given to Ramon Padilla, a US Army veteran who lost his left arm while serving in Afghanistan. I can only describe the experience as inspirational, although Ramon preferred to look at it as just trying to get better.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Articles: General Golf
It’s almost May, and with a turn of the weather we serious golfers get ready for a serious assault on the links. Having been stuck inside for months with cold, nasty conditions forbidding enough to stifle even the most hardy players, we have, for a lack of anything better to do, allowed ourselves to be subjected to endless golf talk. I admit it: I love it. I find no subject more interesting than golf, as absurd as that may seem.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Articles: In Golf as in Life
Have you ever noticed that when all your body parts are working properly you have no real thought about how any one of them feels? Why think about your feet, for example, when they feel fine? I can walk 36 holes and while my feet have performed admirably it certainly doesn’t occur to me to commend them for a job well done.
Continue readingBy Wayne | Articles: In Golf as in Life
Some year’s back I wrote an article titled “Interview with the Devil’s Advocate, in which I assumed the guise of a somewhat belligerent interviewer and asked myself questions on a number of topics concerning my experiences with the game of golf. I found it to be a nice vehicle to express thoughts and opinions in a fashion that differed from the usual lecture mode most pieces drift into.
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