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If you’ve been following Lenny this year you can see just how difficult it is sometimes when you’re playing pretty good but just not putting things together. Lenny just missed another cut by a shot, shooting a poor 77 in his first round but coming back with a 32 on his second nine for a 69 the second day. We spent 3-4 hours together a week before at Lakewood (where the swings in the video were taken) and I felt like we are getting to the bottom of his ball striking inconsistencies. Lenny is a relentlessly positive guy (you really have to be if you are going to try to play for a living) but I know how frustrating it is to keep falling just short. However, I think that if we can incorporate this change in Lenny’s action he will hit his stride and start contending.
The major item here is the width of the downswing. Lenny has always driven his right arm and elbow into his side early in transition, and with his hands dropping a bit too vertically and his lower body a little too slow to unwind the net effect is for the left arm to buckle. This affects the way the wrists have to release the club, and when you watch the difference between the stop and go swing and the regular full swing I think you will see that if we can get this going it will make a huge difference. I have seen this in Lenny’s swing since we started working together, but I have not addressed this specifically in hopes that other improvements would cause the arm to come in straighter. That hasn’t happened, so I decided to try to get it done with a more direct focus on keeping the upper right arm away from body in the first moments of transition. Lenny was amazed at the difference in the two swings, and it is a shame that he didn’t quite get to put it into action for the last two rounds in Canada.
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