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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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Hip Depth Part 3: More Great Swings Staying in the Box

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I guess we will call this “Hip Box” week now that I’ve done 3 videos of top players who demonstrate similar patterns of hip and pelvic movement during the swing. There are variations of course, but in most cases we see added right hip depth almost immediately in the backswing with most players maintaining right knee flex, then a “crunch” or “dig” move that utilizes the ground to push the waist back and bend it forward as the lower body drives forward to shift pressure from left to right and rotates to get the hips well open by impact. I…

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Hip Depth Part 2: More examples and Details on How to Accomplish It

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

In this video I give more examples of great players who maintained or increased their hip depth during their swings. I first noticed this phenomenon about 25 years ago when I was studying that great DTL view of Hogan in 1947. Growing up I was an exceptionally good player (1st Team All American in 1979) but my swing was modeled after the greats of the era, Watson, Weiskopf, Miller, Nicklaus, etc., all of whom swung relatively upright and drove their lower bodies well forward through impact while keeping their heads back in the classic (unfortunately) “reverse C” finish. I first…

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Hip Depth: Watch Tour Players Deepen in the Backswing and Stay Deep in the Forward Swing

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Anyone who has watched my videos over the years knows that I always comment on the “Hip Box” that I draw from the back of the butt and from the front of the knee line in the down the line view. Very few amateurs accomplish what the Tour players do regularly: get deeper in the backswing (the right cheek moving back behind the butt line while maintaining knee flex and keeping the head out on the forehead line) and then staying deep in the forward swing, creating room for the right arm to pass through impact unimpeded. Not every Tour…

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Dustin Johnson Swing Analysis: What Makes Him So Good?

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Dustin Johnson is the best player in the world right now without question. There is no one else with his firepower who is as good from 100 yards and in, and when you average over 315 yards off the tee and hit the ball fairly straight that means a lot of birdies are going to be on the card. Here we have a nice face on and down the line view courtesy of the boys at TaylorMade where we can see how DJ uses his freakishly athletic body to do things with his golf swing that others just aren’t capable…

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Carlos Ortiz Swing Analysis: Super Aggressive Hip Rotation Helps Clear Right Arm

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As I mention in the video, I played 9 holes with Carlos in 2017 in a group with Tony Romo, who I was teaching at the time, and Jordan Spieth, a good friend of Tony’s who was in between Fed Ex Cup tournaments and ranked #2 in the world at the time. I was obviously paying more attention to Tony and Jordan, but Carlos hit it right up with them and looked to have a strong game. He finished 24th on the Korn Ferry Tour money list in 2018 and took advantage by winning over a million dollars in 2019 and…

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Bryson DeChambeau vs. Jack Nicklaus – Side by Side Observations

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

It seems like an obvious comparison to make between the two power hitters, Bryson the new U.S. Open champ and Nicklaus of course the Greatest of All Time with 18 majors. Both exhibit the wide arced backswing and tremendous windup you would expect, along with a perfectly sequenced transition and free release through impact. They differ greatly at address as Nicklaus utilizes relaxed, hanging arms while Bryson has his arms famously extended almost in line with his shaft and elbows locked. In watching them side by side we see elements of what may be called a more classic swing versus…

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Payne Stewart Swing Analysis: Old School Swing Should Have Led to a Long Career

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Payne Stewart would be 63 (born January 30, 1957) had he not tragically died in a plane crash when he was 42 years old. His golf swing was a throwback to the days of Bobby Jones when any thought of restriction was nonexistent. Payne had more backswing hip turn and more total lateral movement (off the ball in the backswing, then forward in the downswing) than anyone on the PGA Tour today. In fact, no one is even close. You hear many words and phrases to describe great rhythm and tempo such as “fluid” or “syrupy” , “smooth”, effortless” etc.,…

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86 Major Championship Winners: Left Wrist Position at the Top of the Backswing

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With seemingly more players winning on the PGA Tour with flat to bowed left wrist angles at the top I thought it would be interesting to go through my accumulated model swings to see how all the major winners I have film of looked at that position. I counted 86 major champions (I stuck to only the men) from Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen up to Collin Morikawa and Bryson DeChambeau. Here is what I found. One note of importance, and I will go over this in the video, is my opinion of what these categories of wrist positions look…

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