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Mark is a long-time club professional, most recently at the Mill River Club in New York, and also happens to be a long-time friend of mine. His playing record as a club professional is as good as it gets: he’s played in 5 PGA’s, 4 U.S. Opens, won the N.Y. State Open twice and the Met Open twice. He finished 28th in the Senior PGA Championship only a year and a half ago. Mark had a banner year in 2013, then ran into technique problems and hit proverbial wall in 2014, a year in which he described his overall play as “horrendous”, especially his ball striking. I actually worked with Mark a bit back in the early 90’s when I was just getting back into the game after being out a few years, and as I began to play better we ran into each other quite a bit over the years. I saw Mark at a 2-Man tournament at Emerald Dunes in Florida last year and hooked him up with a membership to the website. He had been watching a bit and when he came upon the “right arm action” video he noted that it validated what he had been thinking about the misdirection his swing had been taking.
In the video I focus quite a bit on the backswing for a couple reasons, mostly because his posture looks slumpy and unengaged, and his upper trunk muscles aren’t doing a very good job of winding up. I think a posture and takeaway change could cause a lot of good things to happen in his swing just because it would set him up to make a better pass at the ball. There are other things involved, so take a look. I think you will find it interesting.
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