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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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The Masters: Why We Watch

By on Apr 8, 2013 in blog - Comments { 0 }

I was thinking about why the Masters is such a must-see event, and I came up with this huge list of compelling reasons, which made me realize that hey, that is precisely the reason we can’t miss it. It literally has everything that makes golf the great game that it is, plus the familiarity that can only come by holding the event on the same course every year. It is the first major of the year, and after a long cold winter the anticipation has grown. We want to see the great ones go head to head and we have watched the tournament so many times that we know what they are facing on every hole, indeed on almost every [...]

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Approaching the Game: Charles Howell and his New Outlook

By on Feb 11, 2013 in blog - Comments { 1 }

I like to read articles about players who have just played well, especially if their good play has followed a period of not so good play. The fascinating thing to me is the variety of perceived reasons for the turnaround. Most players, if asked, would rather not talk about a slump, other than to say that they are “working on it” and that they see “positive signs” that things are “coming around”. However, players are far more effusive in their discussions of how good play arises out of bad play. The list of reasons is all over the map.   In this week’s issue of Golfweek the subject is Charles Howell. A rash of good results to start the season [...]

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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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TaylorMade Invitational: Cabo San Lucas: Tournament Report

By on Nov 23, 2012 in blog - Comments { 0 }

  I had two goals heading to Cabo to play 6 straight days (2 practice rounds, 4 tournament rounds): first, I wanted to be able to play without ending up gimping around and being miserable because my back didn’t hold up, and second, I wanted to play well and earn some extra cash. I ended up feeling pretty decent after it was all over, which is a victory of sorts, and I shot 71-71-73-73 – 288, which is even par, not so bad until you consider that the winner was 24 under and the leading senior was 15 under. What you see here is footage I took after the 3rd and the morning of the 4th, and since I shot [...]

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Wayne D. in Cabo San Lucas for the TaylorMade Invitational Day 1 and 2

By on Nov 13, 2012 in blog - Comments { 0 }

Not much to say about this one except that this is a seriously nice place with two excellent courses and perfect weather. I played much better today (Tuesday) on the Desert Course than I did yesterday on the Ocean, and I show you a swing from each day. And after the round Valerie is there to serve up the ice cold Corona. With lime. Join the forum discussion on this post

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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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Wayne answers Hardy disciple’s comments on One Plane video.

By on Oct 4, 2012 in blog - Comments { 0 }

Mtwdwrd wrote: Wayne, I don’t know if you have some underlying insecurity or jealousy that leads you to have to criticize others, but it makes you look small. You can disagree all you want, but your opinion isn’t the golf gospel. Look at how many of your videos are to prove someone else is wrong. There was a thread on you over at golfwrx where a number of others feel the same way. You’re using video of one of the instructors and reading from Mr. Hardy’s book, but the pictures in his book are more accurate to what he is describing than the video. If you think he teaches steepening the shaft in transition, you really don’t know what he [...]

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Ryder Cup 2012: Much Ado About Very Little

By on Oct 3, 2012 in blog - Comments { 0 }

There is an inexorable urge among the media to assess blame for the United States’ loss in this year’s Ryder Cup. They just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter who played whom in what position. It doesn’t matter what guys were picked by the captains. What matters is that match play is an entirely one- on -one, personal thing, and the European team beat the Americans, straight up, fair and square. As the Accenture Match Play tournament has shown, at the Tour level anybody can beat anybody, and the overall level of one’s play is not necessarily highlighted by a one-round performance, which can ultimately be a loss even when the caliber of play is extremely high. You can say [...]

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Match Play and the Ryder Cup: It’s Personal

By on Sep 28, 2012 in blog - Comments { 0 }

I am often asked by golfers who compete about the difference between match play and stroke play, and the question becomes all the more relevant with the Ryder Cup upon us again. There are really only 4 important match play tournaments for Tour pros: the World Golf Championship tournament at the beginning of the year, the limited field World Match Play, the President’s Cup, and the Ryder Cup. One thing is for sure: all the guys will tell you they want to win all their matches, which means they have to beat the guys they are playing against, and only those guys. In every other event they have to beat the entire field. They keep score for 3 ½ days [...]

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