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Mac O’Grady and the Magic Move of the Greats

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

Recently a bunch of Mac swings were posted on YouTube, and I encourage everyone to check out his action to see how it changed over time. It was always a great swing, and his ball-striking abilities are legendary. He is also known for his knowledge of swing mechanics and just about any other subject regarding the game, but his eccentricities have kept him from rising above the cult status that he currently possesses (although I’m sure he could care less). In this video I take a Mac swing from down the line that demonstrates what I consider to be the…

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Tiger Woods 2000: Why I Teach What I Teach

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

Sometimes I download swings onto my computer and forget about them, which is what happened with these swings of Tiger taken at Butch Harmon’s teaching center in Dubai in 2000. What’s rare about them is the stable camera and the correct camera angles, which are hard to come by unless you are one of the few who have worked with Tiger over the years. These are especially valuable as they come from Tiger at the top of his game and considering his amazing career that is saying something. In this video, I look at the Tiger’s swing in detail and…

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Lydia Ko Swing Analysis: Added Strength and Getting Back on Plane Leads to Big Victory

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

Lydia Ko was a prodigy to say the least. She was #1 in the world at age 17 and had 2 majors under her belt along with 15 tour wins before she was 20. A few years later she found herself in golf never-never land, going through swing coaches and caddies in search of the missing magic. She only won once in 90 events before breaking through with a 2nd in the latest women’s major and followed that up with a 7-shot win. Much credit goes to her new instructor Sean Foley, who essentially got her back to what she…

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Matt Jones Swing Analysis: Classic Positions with Quiet Lower Body

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities , Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis

At age 40 Matt Jones will admit that he has had an up and down PGA Tour career marked by streaks of good play (2013 to 2015) and not so good play (2016-2018), but for the most part he is a solid grinder who has played in an average of 24 PGA Tour events a year since 2008, finishing in the top 125 in half those years and amassing over $15 million in earnings. Coming off a missed cut and a T-55 in his last 2 events Jones was probably approaching the Honda Classic with a “see what happens” attitude,…

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Patrick Reed Swing Analysis: Swing Changes Simplify Release Action

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

The story from the TV announcers during the Torrey Pines event was that Patrick Reed had begun working with David Leadbetter and that Reed was getting accustomed to the swing changes. He was a bit vague about what they were working on, but he did mention trying to get his hands to release more in tandem with his body. Reed in the past has played with a cupped left wrist and an extremely open face well into the downswing, but his genius in squaring the face without much if any lateral hip movement is obvious. In the new swing it…

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Si Woo Kim: Swing Analysis-Classic Form

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

SW Kim’s swing is fun for me to look at as it demonstrates many of the items I teach regularly to any level of student. It starts with the set-up, nice and clean and angular without being tense. I often see players overdoing their attempt to have “good posture” by pulling the shoulder blades back and tensing up the lower back muscles, a sure recipe for a fatigued back and possible injury. The most important part of the set up is bending from the hips so that the pelvis is tilted and supported by the abdominal and oblique muscles. Kim’s…

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Harris English Swing Analysis: Great Model for Taller, Stronger Players

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Swing Analysis , Videos: This Week On Tour

After 3 poor years making less than a million dollars, English has righted the ship and has been playing great golf for the last 2, culminating in his win in Hawaii in a playoff over Joaquin Niemann. In this video I start by noting some major differences in his driver setup from 2014 to now, looking taller with his hands higher and his weight (pressure) more toward the balls of his feet, changes that I recently suggested to Brad Faxon. English has always looked ultra -smooth swinging the club, but it does appear that he has slowed his backswing even…

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Swing Analysis: Scott Strohmeyer

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Strohmeyer pre-qualified and then 4 spotted for the Sanderson Farms PGA Tour event while having zero status on any tour, and wound up in a tie for 4th, earning over $177,000. That finish qualified him to play in the next tournament in Las Vegas, where unfortunately he missed the cut. Scott played with Justin Thomas on the 2013 Alabama national championship team, and since then has been trying to play his way out onto the Web.Com Tour, this year missing out in the first stage.

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