Lesson of the Week: Steve Bohreer Part 2

By on May 22, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 0 }

  Steve is a website member from Houston, Texas who visits DC every now and then and has stopped in to see me at Woodmont once before. This video looks at a 2 hours session we did this week, and I used the live audio camera to capture us working together on the range after I looked at his initial swings. Everyone seemed to like when I did this before, and although the video is somewhat longer than most of the ones I post I think it will hold your interest.   Steve has nice action, but is plagued by weakness at impact. We see in the first batch of swings that the ultimate reason for the flippiness of impact [...]

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Online Students: Jon Lindstrom

By on May 20, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 0 }

  This is another example of an excellent swing with weakness at impact caused by a variety of factors which have to be traced all the way back to the beginning of the motion. We don’t have to bother with Jon’s set-up or grip, as they look fine here. We can, however, start with the takeaway, as the club comes back a bit closed and under the shaft plane line. It is not mandatory to have a perfect takeaway, but when you look at how the swing progresses you can see that it would be a good idea to change the pattern right off the bat by getting the toe of the club a bit more up and the clubhead [...]

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Swing Analysis: D.A. Points and Billy Horschel

By on May 17, 2013 in Videos: Swing Analysis - Comments { 1 }

  Two excellent swings here side by side as they battled it out in Texas on Sunday. These are both technically sound swings, with no funky moves and a lot of great positions to go with nice, aggressive rhythm. On display are two nicely on plane takeaways, well positioned shafts at the top, great looking “out” moves toward the ball in transition, and left releases with plenty of right side “cover”. Both players use the ground quite well, with Points making a very noticeable “down” move to start his forward swing. It is interesting that the television announcers made no note of this, as such an obvious lowering is usually cause for some “dipping” remark (such as , “he would [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Bret Templeton

By on May 15, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 3 }

  This one should really give you hope that you can change an overall swing pattern in a relatively short period of time. Bret came to see me about a year ago and I had him work on some of the same things you will see here, but nothing really changed and we were again at a point where the swing pattern was so in-to-out that all he could hit were hooks that started well right, with the added attraction of the random fat and thin shot thrown in. He does manage to get his hands nicely up to the ball with the shaft parallel to the ground in the downswing, but the path is so far from the inside [...]

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Online Students: Jeff Paduch

By on May 13, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 1 }

  Anyone watching Jeff’s swing at regular speed would be challenged to come up with any obvious errors to work on. Jeff’s weakness is at impact, and as we all know impact happens too fast to see without the use of video to slow down the movement. When we do slow it down, though, it becomes apparent why Jeff’s club/ball contact might be a bit erratic, and his ability to control trajectory could be compromised by his weakness in the impact area. Certainly it is easy to see that the left wrist has broken down directly after he hits the ball, and if we go a click back we see that when the club is parallel to the ground approaching [...]

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2013 Masters Observations: Scott, Woods, Couples and Cabrera

By on May 10, 2013 in Videos: Swing Analysis - Comments { 1 }

  I finally got around to going through my DVR of this year’s Masters, and what follows here are some random observations. I thought it was an exciting and fascinating tournament with lots of different techniques and personalities battling it out throughout the week. There is still a bunch of interesting stuff still to go over so if you enjoy this one stay tuned for a couple more. Join the forum discussion on this post

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Stan Gets the “Feel”

By on May 8, 2013 in Articles: Lessons with Stan - Comments { 1 }

It’s been quite a while since my on and off student Stan has made his way over to Woodmont for a lesson, so I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed his name in my book for a couple hours last week. If you have read any of my articles recounting my various forays with Stan (Click here) you know that he is endlessly entertaining as he searches for any and every way to get better without having to do the work and practice that I always insist he needs. Stan really wants to believe that the game is “90% mental”, and that if he can just conquer his inner demons and focus on the target he could become the player [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Scott Walker

By on May 6, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 1 }

  Scott is from California but had a wedding to attend in the DC area so he decided to stop in and spend some time with me at Woodmont. We had 3 hours to work on Monday, then 3 more on Tuesday morning, and I feel like we got a lot accomplished, as I think you will see.   The first thing that occurred to me is that Scott has a nice, aggressive looking action that to the eye seems under control and manageable. I was surprised when he told me that he sometimes gets to the point where he has no idea which way the ball was going to go. As usual, however, a closer look, with slow motion [...]

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Update on Ben Silverman: Ready for his First Web.Com Event

By on May 1, 2013 in blog - Comments { 3 }

Some great news for my young professional student Ben Silverman: he survived a playoff to qualify for this week’s Web.Com Tour event in Athens, Georgia after shooting 68 in the qualifier. This is a welcome success after narrowly missing (1 shot) the Canadian Tour qualifying event held in California last month. We are all excited for Ben and want to wish him the best of luck. He has been working hard on some pretty major swing changes and is feeling good about his swing and his overall game. Go get ‘em Ben!   Click here track him during the tournament starting Thursday May 2nd   Click a link to check out Wayne’s work with Ben so far: Playing for Money: [...]

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Playing for Money: Ben Silverman Part 3

By on Apr 29, 2013 in Videos: Playing For Money - Comments { 3 }

  It’s always satisfying to see any player, talented or not, take in new information and incorporate the changes to improve their swing technique. If you compare Ben’s swing now to what it was 5 months ago you will see how much work he has done to completely change his pattern from a vertical hand drop in transition to a beautiful “out” move that keeps the shaft above his right forearm in the forward swing and allows him to swing left through impact. We have pretty much changed everything at least a little, including strengthening his grip, getting the takeaway to follow the shaft plane and work to more of a toe up position at shaft parallel to the ground, [...]

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