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Lesson of the Week: Claire Luce- Classic Issues for Junior Golfers

As we watch Claire, who is 13, swing the club we can see the talent present in the motion. She will be a much more consistent and better ball striker when she improves her impact position, which you will see does not produce enough forward shaft lean to prevent some thin and fat shots from interrupting her rounds. My focus here is on the way she overstretches when completing the backswing, pushing her ribcage to the right, straightening her right knee, and pulling her right upper arm and shoulder well behind her at the top. This over extension, combined with…

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Playing for Money: Lucia Polo- Striving for More Compressed Irons

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Lucia is 23 years old and 2 years out of a college career playing for the University of Tennessee. She is now in her second stint on the Symetra Tour, the LPGA’s version of the Web.Com tour. This is my second lesson with Lucia, and in the first lesson I saw some real potential as she incorporated my suggestions quickly during the lesson. She tends to move her body quite a bit to the right in the backswing, then never quite recovers with her upper body while her lateral hip movement nets out at about zero. Being this far back…

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Lesson of the Week: Angelina and Valentina Guertin

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Here is another video that showcases how quickly talented young players can incorporate change when the instruction is limited to no more than a couple of things and those things are simple in nature. Angelina and Valentina are 10 and 9 years old and are already highly accomplished competitive junior golfers.

Lesson of the Week: Kayla Perkins

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Kayla is a 13 year old member of my previous club and had just started getting serious about playing competitive golf. When we started her biggest issue was sequence and as you can see here, she has made tremendous progress.

Swing Analysis: Michelle Wie

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After wowing the golf world with her play up to the age of 16 Michelle Wie has amazed just about everyone with her mediocre play in the 8 following years. She is only 24 and still has her career in front of her, but those waiting for her to break out and become the star that she seemed easily destined for have been continually disappointed by her inability not only to win but even to contend. Certainly some of the blame has to be laid on her parents and advisors, especially the decision to have her compete against the men…

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Swing Analysis: Paula Creamer

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Paula began her career as though she would become one of the all-time greats, but her progress has slowed considerable over the last 4 years as she has only one win in that period (after 8 in the previous 3 years) and has fallen to #13 in the World Rankings. Still, she is a great player and any analysis should start by pointing out her excellent shaft control and dynamic pivot motion. If I were working with her I would start by deepening her right hip in the backswing, which would allow her a chance to keep from moving her…

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Online Students: Georgia Wempe

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Watching Georgia’s swing at regular speed you can tell from her smooth, aggressive tempo that she is strong and athletic and has worked on her swing mechanics, especially in her backswing. When she hits it fat and thin with such a good looking action it would be no surprise to me to hear the random viewer comment that her poor ball-striking would indicate that she was somehow mentally deficient, more specifically that she was “thinking too much” or that she was trying to be “too mechanical” and wasn’t “keeping it simple”. Such nonsense is par for the course from people…

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Student Lesson: Jessica Fernandez

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One of my very best friends likes to “gift” me a subscription to “Golf Tips Magazine” every year as a joke, since we both have a great time going over some of the instructional articles found inside. I recently read one that “exposed” certain “Myths” in the game, one of which was the supposed myth that impact was the “moment of truth” in the swing. The point was not that impact was not important, but that it was really everything that led up to that point that created whatever that impact was. Now, I can see that as an argument,…

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Student Lesson: The Meyers Sisters

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When I saw these three young ladies on the range at my club I immediately went over to their father and told him that I would love to teach them. He was a bit overwhelmed with trying to help them himself so he thought that was a good idea, and the swings you see on this video are the product of about 2 hours of instruction apiece. I think you will be as amazed as I was to see these swings, especially when you consider that they have never played more than a couple of holes on the golf course.…

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Lesson of the Week: Lindsay Ianello

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Lindsay is a 16 handicap who has only been playing for 4 years, and as soon as I saw her swing I thought to myself that she would see significant progress right away.

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