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Swing Analysis: Matthias Schwab- European Tour 2nd Year Player Showing Excellent Form

Schwab had a nice rookie season last year on the European Tour and has two top-10’s this year, including finishing 3rd in the BMW International a few weeks ago, which is where this particular swing comes from. Schwab is a direct contrast to Matthew Wolff in that while Wolff plays a reactive game that requires little conscious thought, Schwab is deliberate and disciplined in his rehearsals, set up procedure, and with his simple looking swing that follows conventional plane lines. Schwab had an excellent college career at Vanderbilt U, and was the highest European in the world amateur rankings when…

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S.H. Park and Nelly Korda: Swing Analysis- 2 Excellent Swings Produce 150+ MPH Ball Speed

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

The women’s game is undergoing a welcome evolution as stylish swings like SH Park’s and Nelly Korda’s are producing greater distance (Park averaged 269 in 2018, Korda 263) as well as accuracy (both hit over 70% of fairways). Both Park and Korda are thin and wiry strong, and both look great standing over a shot. The swings you see here are textbook from the on-plane takeaways to nice positions at the top, excellent hand path in transition and nice lower body work with the hips staying deep and clearing hard. Park tends to drive her right leg a bit more…

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Matt Wallace and Matthew Fitzpatrick: Demonstrating Extremes in Tempo from Slowest to Fastest

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

You’ve got to love a game where two players in the hunt to win a big event are so amazingly different when it comes to what golf people would call a “fundamental”, that being tempo. The other interesting thing here is that both golfers could be much closer in utilizing the same rhythm, which makes it crucial that we understand the difference between the two terms, which most of the time are used (incorrectly) interchangeably. When we speak of tempo, we are measuring the rate, or speed of the movement. Fitzpatrick’s tempo is fast, Wallace’s tempo is slow. In fact,…

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Jon Rahm: How Great Lower Body Action Makes Possible Variations in Arm and Wrist Movement

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Most viewers of Jon Rahm are mesmerized by what he does with his upper body, notably his short, oddly shaped swing that seems to have no depth in the backswing, an extremely bowed left wrist, and an exaggeratedly laid off shaft at the top. But in this video, I show that what allows all that to work is Rahm’s lower body technique, which is just about flawless. Rahm is a thick guy and taking the left arm across the chest would probably feel too tight, so it’s not surprising that he lets the hands travel away from his body in…

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Jazz Janewattananond- Steep to Flat to Steep

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

When I first saw Jazz hit a shot on the telecast of the PGA Championship at Bethpage, I had a flashback to my student Willy Wilcox, whose quirky looking swing that I saw for the first time on television in 2015 fascinated me immediately. Willy’s swing has a distinct pattern: hands and arms inward early in the backswing, shaft moving more vertical mid-backswing, then a hard kick to flatten the shaft in transition. The overall effect was whip-like, and the freedom of the foot movement and huge right-side bend through impact was distinctive. Jazz’s swing has a lot of the…

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Wayne D. Making Modifications and Playing Better

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I’ve been feeling better and getting stronger and have had time to practice so it was nice to see the work pay off in the Middle Atlantic Section Match Play qualifier on a tough track just outside of Richmond, Va. I shot 2-under 70 to place second in a field of 51, 11 of whom were heading to the National Championship being contested this week in South Carolina. My ball striking was decent, short game and putting outstanding. In this video I show and talk about the changes I have made, which for the most part take me closer to…

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Tiger Woods: Huge Changes from 2010 to 2019

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

If you want to see how much Tiger has changed his approach to his golf swing over the past decade just watch here and note the change in his pre-swing rehearsal. In 2010 at his winter event in California he is seen starting his downswing rehearsal with his hands moving behind him, his left arm pulling down his chest, and the shaft staying steep and always over his right arm. In 2019 at Augusta we see him swinging his hands out above the ball in transition (people would call that “over the top”) with the shaft laying back. I always…

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Tiger Woods Driver: in the Wayne D. Lines

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

It’s not often that we get a TV view of any shot with a stable camera and a perfect camera angle, but here on the second hole at Augusta we get just that, and I take advantage of the opportunity to put Tiger inside the Wayne D. lines to see what his pivot is up to. Television does not utilize shutter speed in their cameras (other than the special slow-motion ones) so we can’t provide much detail about the shaft and clubface, although the blur of the club gives us some idea of where the shaft is pointing during the…

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Keith Mitchell Demonstrating a Controlled Knock-Down Wedge

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

In this video I look at Honda winner Keith Mitchell hitting a 91- yard wedge shot with a technique designed to control trajectory and spin. The shot can be interchangeably called a “knock-down”, a “3/4”, or a “cut off”, and the idea is by reducing the length of both the backswing and the follow through and perhaps also by gripping down on the club the player can produce say a 9-iron shot with a 7 iron and achieve a flatter, more penetrating flight that will not spin up into the wind. My guess here is that Mitchell is not hitting…

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Swing Analysis: Adam Scott Looking like Old Tiger

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Adam Scott has had one of the best swings in golf for a long time. I played with him the first two rounds of the 2001 PGA at Atlanta Athletic Club and it was fun to watch to say the least even though he didn’t play particularly well and missed the cut. It is not surprising that his swing still has the Butch Harmon signature moves in it, and that the video shows it is quite similar to Tiger’s swing from the early 2000’s. The technique is one everyone could model, if only everyone had the physical build and ability…

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