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Online Lesson: Zachary Turek, PGA- Correcting the Takeaway

Zach is a club professional from Pennsylvania who has been working with me every now and then for a few years. You can see that he has very nice rhythm to go with a strong impact (and he’s a strong guy as well), but in the swings we see here, the start of his swing is taking him off plane and forcing him to steepen the club in transition. My suggestions focus mostly…

What Starts the Swing?

By Wayne | blog

I just spent the day with my student Kevin Streelman at the Sanderson Farms Classic PGA Tour event in Jackson, Mississippi, where we resumed our efforts to find a way to break Kevin’s habit of triggering his swing with too much…

TP&C: Kevin Streelman Part 5

By Wayne | Tour Players and Celebrities

Kevin, A.J. and I are really excited about the coming PGA Tour season, and when you watch these swings I think you will see why. His swing keeps improving, and this week we really made a big positive difference by focusing on…

Online Students: Ray Davis

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

If you have been watching these lesson videos it should be apparent by now just how important the takeaway is to the overall pattern of a golf swing. The more I see the right arm lock up and stay overly straight in the first few feet of the swing the easier it is to predict the resulting pattern that emerges, ending with an approach to impact that can be both high and in-to-out with the either the driver or the irons. Ray is another classic example of such a pattern. The good news is that Ray has an excellent…

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Student Lesson: Jared Kenworthy

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Jared has been a member of the web site for a while now and has created a nice series of videos that he posted in the forum documenting all the hard work he’s done on his swing, check them out if you haven’t seen them yet. Jared used the information on this site, a few online lessons, a lot of motivation, some self-analysis and plain old hard work to build himself a very nice swing. In this video Jared actually made the trip out from Kansas for business and decided to drop by Woodmont for an in-person lesson, which was…

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Online Student: Chris Ellis

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Chris is a good example of great instincts impeded by poor mechanics. Chris’ backswing is fraught with problems, but his forward swing recovers nicely and finds an approach worthy of a top notch player. Watching this I couldn’t help but think that if Chris could clean up some of the major issues in the first half of his swing that he could really come up with some good ball striking. Usually players have to pay more attention to the downswing than the backswing, but I think in this case it will be far more beneficial in the short and long…

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Lesson of the Week: Sean Heintzleman

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

In this lesson you (and Sean) can clearly see that he has already begun to accomplish the changes we set out to make at the beginning of the lesson.

Online Students: Amar Chalwa

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Ask a number of different people to comment about what is good and bad about the swing and ask them to come up with a way to make the swing better you will get a similar number of different answers.

Lesson of the Week: Bill Long

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Bill is a website aficionado who decided to drive up to Maryland from North Carolina after enjoying the website and improving his game with information provided by the site. When he arrived he stated his one great desire, “a good takeaway”. He had taken numerous lessons from pros around a wide region, and had never come away with anything he could apply to his swing and use on the golf course.

Pivot Compression Golf Swing: No. 6 – The Takeaway (Starting The Backswinng With The Pivot)

By Wayne | Videos: PCGS lesson series

What we call the “takeaway” encompasses everything that happens from the moment the clubhead makes its first movement away from the ball to the point where the shaft reaches parallel to the ground.

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