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Lenny and I spent two and half days down in Jupiter January 2013 in a continuation of the work we are doing trying to get him back on the PGA Tour. Lenny missed at the finals of Q-School in November, and now will be full time on the Web.Com Tour for this year. He will be playing in the first 5 events before the reshuffle, and he would (obviously) like to get off to a good start.
My main focus with Lenny has been to concentrate on the things that will produce a better strike of the ball, mainly with the wedges and irons. Lenny found that his game was in shape to make the Tour but he wasn’t able to hit the ball close enough to the hole to give himself enough makeable birdie putts (even though his putting is stellar) to shoot the kind of numbers it takes to be successful at the highest level. When we met he was not happy with his ball striking, more specifically he felt that he was not compressing the ball well with his irons, especially the wedges, and thus he was not hitting them as far as he thought he should be and wasn’t able to control his distances well.
My diagnoses focused on what I considered his inability to lean the shaft forward at impact, and I saw in his swing a lack of wrist cock, a vertical drop of the hands from the top in transition, and an overly lateral movement with the lower body in the forward swing without enough timely rotation. The swing was a bit positioned and “one-two”, and lacked the “hard catch” and dynamic motion that I see with the best ball strikers. Here you see us working on these factors, as I try to get him to feel that the forward swing starts from the ground before the backswing finishes, and that if he allows his wrists to “play” a bit at the top that he would get the feeling of stressing the shaft in the downswing and applying a sharper angle of attack to the ball and thus more forward shaft lean and more ball compression.