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Lesson of the Week: Joseph Barr Part 2

By on Jun 10, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 0 }

  Joseph has just completed 4 years on the golf team at the University of Kentucky, and is now contemplating playing in some professional events. I have been working with him for about 2 years, although I haven’t seen him more than 3 or 4 times. Even so, he has made great strides with his swing, which was quite idiosyncratic to begin with, and still is to an extent, especially with the driver. Joseph has a unique way of finding a shaft plane approach, but when I saw the amount of head drop and spine tilt in the impact area I thought it was my obligation to fix it, or at least moderate it, as I had suffered major back [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Steve Bohreer Part 2

By on May 22, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 4 }

  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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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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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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Lesson of the Week: Jim Heerwagen

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

  Jim was visiting the DC area from California and had been a member of the website for some time so he decided to pay a visit. He had recently been to a golf school where he reported that he had worked mostly on tempo and balance. I found that to be interesting as it turned out that we wound up working on the very same things, as you will see in the video.   The first thing I noticed in watching Jim hit some full shots was how slow his swing looked. We talked a bit about what he had worked on in his recent school experience and I was not surprised that he had slowed things down as [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Alex Hooper

By on Apr 17, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 1 }

  Alex has been coming to Woodmont to see me every now and then for a few years now. His swing has improved, but he still suffers from some pivot problems which eventually cause him to approach impact both too steep with the shaft too far out away from him as well as too wide with the hands too far away from the ball when the shaft is parallel to the ground coming down. He has worked hard to gain hip depth in the backswing, and he has definitely done that, but he has also gotten into backing his head up both going back and coming down. From the face on view we can see that he lacks lateral movement [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Jon Zampedro

By on Apr 12, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 0 }

  I thought this would be an interesting lesson to look at because of Jon’s physical stature. One thing I find to be generally ridiculous in golf instruction is the idea that the swing should be tailored to body type, and that different body types should be taught differently. I believe this to be nonsense. The basic elements of a good swing are the same for thick and skinny, tall and short, male and female, weak and strong, young and old. The difference is not in what you teach, but in how you focus your priorities based on limitations (or in some cases lack of limitations) inherent in the student. Now, before you think that I am inferring that teach [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Justin Duffie Part 4

By on Apr 10, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 2 }

  We have seen Justin’s swing improve by leaps and bounds over time but I thought this was an interesting lesson because you don’t usually see drill swings produce exactly the changes you are looking for. When you have spent most of your golfing life swinging poorly as Justin has there are things late in the swing that you just aren’t going to have any clue about doing correctly. Now, however, he is in such better position approaching impact that he has a chance to drive his right side through the impact area and perhaps produce better contact and some sustain past the ball. I give him the split hand punch shot drill, and after a few (predicted) fat shots [...]

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The P.A.T. Project: Student Lesson: CJ D’Arco Part 4

By on Mar 29, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 0 }

  As you know if you have watched the previous videos of CJ’s swing, we are attempting to get through the Player Ability Test for the PGA of America, which is a must if you are going to continue on in your quest to become a PGA Member. Most of the requirements to be a PGA Professional are book learning (you have to attend 3 different weeks of “business school” and pass tests on the information presented, as well as completing extensive course work in workbook form), but one requirement that presents a major hurdle for any aspiring pro who is not a good player is the PAT, which sets a goal of shooting 15 strokes or less above the [...]

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Lesson of the Week: Jim Farina

By on Mar 27, 2013 in Videos: Lesson of the Week - Comments { 1 }

  Jimmy is an avid golfer and a long- time member of the website who has sent me his swing for analysis a number of times in the past as well as driven down from upstate NY to spend time with me at Woodmont. I recently went to South Florida to spend a couple days with Jimmy at his clubs in Jupiter, Jupiter Hills Golf Club and Tequesta Country Club. We played each day then worked on the range down in Boca, and as you will see Jimmy has worked hard and made some significant progress with his swing.   Jimmy’s major issue and the thing that attracted him to the website in the first place, is his lower body [...]

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