Lesson of the Week | Wayne DeFrancesco

Lesson of the Week: John Martin – Figuring Out how to Tackle a Complicated Swing

John is a decent player who could be much better. He has advanced about as far as he can with the swing he showed up with, and as you will see there are many issues to deal with, too many to tackle all at once. John is serious about his game as evidenced by the fact that he comes up to Baltimore from D.C. (worst traffic in the universe) to seek help, and while I never want to overload a student, I do like to go over the swing as a whole and try to explain how the overall pattern…

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Lesson of the Week: Peter Slaven- Right Forearm Takeaway and Centering Setup

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Peter had a nice summer of competition and in this lesson, we continue to try to improve his ball striking by simplifying some important elements of his swing. Peter’s main issue has been the odd hook that occurs less frequently now but still pops up at inopportune times. I see him getting his right arm too deep at the top of the swing and then moving his head back away from the target (as opposed to the more common issue of backing away from the ball). In our last lesson I encouraged Pete to load more to the right early…

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Lesson of the Week: Ryan Daly

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Message to Wayne: I’m a father, teacher, and golf coach at a high school in NJ. I have played golf since I was a frosh in HS and got cut from the team the first two years I tried out. I made Varsity my Junior/Senior year. I had a hole-in-one at 16 years old and another at 19 which I was extremely blessed ended up being for a car during a golf outing. I was playing with 3 of my HS teammates and that was a very special day! My biggest playing achievement was qualifying for the NJ State Public…

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Lesson of the Week: Matthew Sawyer- Backswing Work

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Matthew is an 11 handicap who has been a member of WayneD.com for so time, and since he lives not too far from Baltimore decided to come up for a face to face lesson. My first impression was that Matt had better action than his handicap would suggest, but that he could improve his ball striking by focusing on backswing width and structure. You will see a side by side comparison between his first swings with a stop and go drill, and then with me doing some hands on moving, getting him to feel the extension and higher hands at…

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Rogers- Trying to Stay Out Over the Ball and Clear the Left Hip

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Steve is a high level senior amateur (played in last year’s U.S. Senior Am) but has been fighting pain in his right hip and lower back. We have always worked on Steve’s tendency to back up his upper body and come out from under himself with his lower, leading to late squaring of the hips and a right shoulder that drops down into impact without enough forward movement, the result usually being a fat iron shot or a pull as he runs out of right arm and is forced to utilize a throw type release. Here I suggest that Steve…

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Lesson of the Week: Peter Slaven Correcting Overly In to Out Path

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Peter is a high-level amateur who would like to sharpen his ball striking skills to get to an even higher level where he would be competitive on a state and national level. He has plenty of power, carrying his driver 280-290 yards, but tends to hook the ball overall and to miss too many irons right and left, the culprit being his in to out club path. I see his right arm continuing to deepen in transition which keeps his upper arm behind him in the forward swing. Peter loads to the right but never recovers his upper body position,…

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Lesson of the Week: Andrew Teo Having a Breakthrough

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If you have watched any of Andrew’s lesson videos (you should) you will see just how stubborn his backswing hitch has been to get rid of. Andrew is a good player and an athlete, and you might think that once he is made aware of such an obvious and exaggerated flaw that he could fix it fairly quickly. Of course, in golf this is rarely the case, as there are so many elements to putting the clubface to the ball that players often lack awareness of what they are doing and even when they see it in action on a…

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Lesson of the Week: John Krystynak- Backswing and Sequence Work

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John started with me online back in 2015, sent swings a few times that year and in 2016 and 17, then came down to Florida for a face to face in February of 2018. He returned a couple weeks ago for another look, and as usual we found ourselves working on the same issues. I’d like to see John use his entire upper body to get the swing started instead of just his hands, and when he does, I want him to stretch the backswing out much wider so that the upper right arm and shoulder don’t pull back behind…

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Lesson of the Week: Jamie Kilmer, PGA – Part 5

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Jamie’s swing has improved since we started working together just over a year ago, and in this our 8th time together over that period we achieve something of a breakthrough when he puts together better posture, backswing width, feels the difference between right shoulder retraction and protraction, and finally sees vastly improved sequence where his upper body doesn’t lean to the left to start the forward swing. Right arm and shoulder pullback is such a huge issue for golfers on all levels that it is no wonder Butch Harmon has gotten such good results by concentrating so much on backswing…

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Barber, PGA – Working on Trigger, Width, and Impact

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Steve is 55 years old and the Head Professional at the Locust Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. He is an accomplished player having qualified to play in 5 National Club Professional championships, but he has never made the cut and blames that for the most part on ball striking. He has been hitting his irons off the toe and not compressing the ball the way he would like and is looking for some things to work on as he gets ready to head back north to start the season. The first thing I notice is the hitch in…

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