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So far in our series of lessons this is the best face-on video I’ve seen from Peter. There’s space under the right arm in the take away, he’s staying down in transition, there’s a good amount of lateral drive and the approach width is good for the driver, very nice improvement from the face-on view. The down-the-line view is where we start so see some issues.
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One of the problems I have observed over my 30 years of teaching is that a lot of students tend to view a lesson as a “fix” to a particular problem they are experiencing. I have heard the phrase “help me, just don’t change me” enough times to realize that the person who believes this is possible has probably played the game at the same level for many years, the point being that if you want to improve you are going to have to learn some new concepts about the swing or the short game, and you are going to have to try to change what you are doing presently to something better.
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Lindsay and her husband Peter came from Chicago to spend a couple of days with me, and the progress was excellent. As you will see in the video Lindsay is very athletic (she is a horse person) and with her size (tall) and ability to move and create speed getting her to hit it far better is a matter of technique. The most glaring fault present here is her sequence.
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This was a fun one to do because it is rare to see obvious changes to a Tour player’s golf swing. Kuchar has gone from an idiosyncratic backswing that was as deep and behind him as anyone on tour to one where the hands, arms and club stay much more in front of his body. Much of this is accomplished by the combination of up-cocking the left wrist in the takeaway, moving the upper right arm more upward and away from the body than in the past, and restricting his lower body rotation in the backswing.
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This video covers two short lessons. Peter’s swings are looking good in both. In the first video Peter’s hands are working much better out at the ball in transition but I’m seeing that pattern often seen on this site of the hips moving out towards the ball, causing the head to back up and losing angle in a players posture. I want to see Peter do the opposite and increase his angle in the downswing.
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This is a great example of what I would call the “modern” swing, which incorporates restricted lower body movement in the backswing, plenty of both lateral and rotational movement in the forward swing, and a “drive/hold” release pattern, what I would previously term a “sustained” impact, where the right wrist stays bent well past impact as the clubface closes, causing the shaft to stay in line with the left arm until the hands move past the right leg in the follow through.
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As you will see from the video Erik has a very good idea of what he needs to work on. In this analysis I suggest a more on plane takeaway achieved by cocking the wrists more vertically as the trunk moves the arms, and the hands moving slightly more straight back. I also emphasize the spacing of the right upper arm away from the body at address and into the start of the backswing. From there the big thing is the pelvic movement.
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In Mike’s email that came with the videos he stated that he had an amateur event to play in soon and was looking for something that might help out his “mess of a swing” (his own words). I always like to give a thorough analysis when people pay for an online lesson so most times there are going to be too many things to practice all at once. I usually suggest what I think the priorities should be but that is really more up to the student to decide after fiddling with each item a bit.
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This lesson is actually a compilation of three short lessons. The first part Peter has freed up his leg movement in the backswing which I like but his head is a bit left of center and the forward hip drive is a bit too forward and not enough around. The next section the face-on view is looking really nice.
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Michael has a very clear idea of what his problems are, but not a clear idea of how to fix them. From the video you will see that he has an excellent swing, and that his most glaring issue is just what he thought it was, the use of his lower body in the downswing. I compare him with Rory and the difference there along with the explanation will (I hope) help him retain his hip depth and to clear his left leg much better, which in turn will allow him to get his hands more forward at impact and to sustain his bent right wrist/flat left wrist past impact.
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