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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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As Seen on TV: Kratzert on Woods: Head Steady? I Don’t Think So

By on Apr 26, 2013 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 3 }

  I find it hard to believe that a guy who fancies himself as a golf “expert” would put such wrongheaded nonsense out for public consumption. Bill Kratzert is proving himself to right in there with Johnny Miller, Nick Faldo, Brandel Chamblee, and the rest of the bunch when he steadfastly maintains that Tiger’s head is “steady”, not moving to the right or up and down when in fact the very video he is analyzing proves him to be totally wrong. I mean, the video is playing, Kratzert is commentating, and what he is saying has nothing to do with what Tiger is doing. When Kratzert says that Tiger’s head doesn’t move to the right, the video shows that it [...]

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Matt Kuchar Golf Swing Analysis

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

Watching Matt Kuchar swing should be enough evidence for anyone paying attention to prove that just about any combination of backswing arm, hand and wrist positions can be utilized to play great golf.

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The Golf Posture Pod: A Great Teaching and Training Tool

By on Apr 5, 2013 in Videos: Faults, Fixes and Drills - Comments { 4 }

  “In the box” is a phrase I have coined to highlight the importance of having the hips stay deep during the swing. If the head stays out over the ball the deepening of the hips produces an increase in posture during the swing, which means that the head of the golfer will lower both in the backswing and in the first part of the downswing. The Golf Posture Pod is a device that allows you to train this movement while visually measuring whether or not you are being successful at your attempt to deepen the hips during the swing. If you have watched any of my lesson videos you must have noticed that a common mistake among amateur players [...]

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Chamblee on Tiger’s Hand Path: Borrowing from a Great Source

By on Mar 15, 2013 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 13 }

  There is very little original thought on display in golf instruction, and the truth is that every morsel of such originality is eventually taken by those who are looking for ideas and used for their own benefit. In some cases the ideas are paraphrased to make it seem that they weren’t borrowed, and in other cases the owner of the original thought is credited for the information, which is, of course, the more honest way to do things. There are other instances in which information is blatantly plagiarized and no credit is given, which is what I believe is on display in this video. The irony here is that Chamblee took great pains to disparage me and my teaching [...]

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Swing Analysis: Tiger Woods Wins at Torrey Pines 2013

By on Feb 4, 2013 in Videos: Swing Analysis - Comments { 5 }

  Not much to say here except that this is the best golf swing I have seen (of course, this is my opinion: that’s what you get here at WDGLC) I have seen since Hogan. I can’t imagine how the rest of the competitors, and that includes Rory McIlroy, are going to beat him if he is even somewhat “on”. It would appear that his short game, putting, and shot making abilities have returned full force, and his swing is better than ever, and I include any of the years that people will bring up, including 2000. I realize that he played better in 2000 than any other year (“played” in italics) and hit the ball great, but I think [...]

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Swing Analysis: Calvin Peete

By on Jan 21, 2013 in Videos: Swing Analysis - Comments { 0 }

  We all know that Calvin Peete was one of the most accurate drivers of the golf ball who ever played the game. We probably have some memory of Peete’s swing, a bit odd looking due to a poorly set broken arm as a youth, but the main memory is of a ball rolling down the fairway. Peete was the Tour’s leader in percentage of fairways hit for 10 consecutive years, and won 11 Tour events in 5 years from 1983-88 before Tourette ’Syndrome drove him off the Tour and eventually out of competitive golf.   Peete’s swing is built around his misshapen arm, and his routing of the club combined with his exotic wrist action in transition and through [...]

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Why a Website?

By on Jan 2, 2013 in blog - Comments { 0 }

I am often asked why I chose to start the website, and I can honestly say that it just occurred to me one day that it would be a cool thing to do. I had been using the V1 to send video summaries of lessons to students, and it seemed like it would nice to have a bigger repository for those and for the information I had been coming up with over the years as a player and a teacher. I feel that a lot of what I do is original (seeking to be original is the main reason I have mostly avoided either taking lessons or watching other teachers teach, and I have noticed that our business is one [...]

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Online Students: Derek Cribb Part 2

By on Dec 31, 2012 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 0 }

  Derek worked on his first online lesson for about 2 weeks before sending another set of swings, and the change is noticeable. While his arms don’t appear to be a lot softer at address I think his right arm is actually much softer than the first swings he sent, and that has helped him quite a bit in improving his takeaway and thus his entire backswing. His right arm now bends a bit and stays wider in the first part of the backswing, which allows him to achieve a fuller swing overall and opens up the possibility of pointing the club more left at the top and from there moving into a more sidearm throwing type of downswing instead [...]

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What is the best way to teach golf?: An Interesting Conversation

By on Oct 25, 2012 in blog - Comments { 0 }

Chris: The fastest way to get good at golf is to focus on the target and try to hit it while constantly making adjustments and trying to figure out what works for you. You learn much faster that way than having some teaching pro hammering swing thoughts into your head or repeating the same movement over and over again. Learning golf is about making mistakes and finding an individual solution, not about repeating a swing method over and over again. It´s not about hitting some lines on a video screen, it´s about being able to hit golf shots on the course under pressure.   Wayne: Good for you. When you keep making the same mistakes and stop getting better, or [...]

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