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Max Homa Swing Analysis: Classic Form Begs to be Emulated

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

There is nothing about this swing that you wouldn’t want to copy, even if you don’t have Max’s 32-year-old, 6’2”, 180 lb. body (my guess is that he has put on 20 more pounds of muscle since the PGA Tour did his profile). Everything about this is quality, from the grip to the stance and posture, and then to the effortless looking swing that produces average drives of 306 yards. A few things that are a bit different from what I might teach are the locked looking arms at address and the lack of rightward head movement in the backswing,…

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Sam Burns Swing Analysis: Long off the Tee, Solid Ball Striker, Great Putter

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

Stats don’t lie (usually), and when you average 310 off the tee, are 11th on Tour in Strokes Gained Approaching the Green, and top 10 in Strokes Gained Putting you are going to win a lot of money and put yourself in position to win with some regularity. Burns shines because unlike other excellent players with great stats he wins more often when he has a chance, three times already this year. He is a strong looking athlete at 6’1” and 185 lbs., and his swing is good enough to want to copy, utilizing the OTTFTI method of outward hand…

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Kevin Na Swing Analysis: Doesn’t Have to be Perfect When You Have the Best Short Game on Tour

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

I love to watch guys like Na who don’t drive the ball particularly long or straight and aren’t the best ball strikers around but play consistently great golf. After all, the game is about scoring, and Na has been #1 in Strokes Gained Around the Green 3 times in the last 10 years while having solid putting stats. Na is 5’11”, the same as Hideki Matsuyama, but Matsuyama outweighs Na by 30 pounds and is 15 to 20 yards longer off the tee. You might expect Na to be among the most accurate drivers considering his lack of length, but…

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Tom Hoge Swing Analysis: Poster Child for Pivot Compression

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

When I started this website 12 years ago, I called it “The Pivot Compression Golf Swing”, focusing on the fact that most Tour players, and indeed most of the greats from the past, moved downward at some point during the swing and struck the ball with significantly more posture (more bent over) at impact. This idea met with some resistance from TV announcers who thought Tiger’s problems had a lot to do with his lowering, but in recent years it has become not only accepted but encouraged to “use the ground” for stability, power, and timing. There are three categories…

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Richard Bland Swing Analysis- How Did This Guy Not Win in 477 Tournaments?

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

When you read a bio of Richard Bland and see that he got on Tour in 1998 and didn’t win until 2021, then you watch his swing, you must wonder what in the world kept him out of the winner’s circle. Of course, there are as many reasons why players fail to win as there are facets of the game, and who knows what has bedeviled him in the past. But he had his breakthrough win last month at the British Masters, and now is tied for the lead in the U.S. Open after 36 holes. His swing is spot…

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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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