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Old 08-15-2011, 01:49 PM
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Dufner waggle
I thought the purpose of a waggle was to rehearse a certain move in the swing. I have seen Jason Dufner several times and he certainly waggles quite a bit---almost reminds me of Sergio regripping the club a few years back. But his waggle looks nothing like his takeaway. I am a complete amateur at looking at swings so I wonder if anyone has any thoughts.
(Nice story---when Jason first won some big cash a few years ago he bought his caddy a Corvette and himself an Escalade. A guy at the Auburn University Club told me you can hear him coming from a mile away as he likes to play Rap muscic very loud.)
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Old 08-15-2011, 03:01 PM
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I thought the purpose of a waggle was to rehearse a certain move in the swing. I have seen Jason Dufner several times and he certainly waggles quite a bit---almost reminds me of Sergio regripping the club a few years back. But his waggle looks nothing like his takeaway. I am a complete amateur at looking at swings so I wonder if anyone has any thoughts.
(Nice story---when Jason first won some big cash a few years ago he bought his caddy a Corvette and himself an Escalade. A guy at the Auburn University Club told me you can hear him coming from a mile away as he likes to play Rap muscic very loud.)
Sometimes a waggle needs to exaggerate a feel to make a change in the actual swing. It appeared to me the waggle was under-plane, yet the backswing was dead on plane. Perhaps without the waggle he was cocking his hands up too much above the plane?

Great question, not sure if my answer is correct, but it is what I was thinking about his waggle this weekend.

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Old 08-15-2011, 07:26 PM
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Nice story---when Jason first won some big cash a few years ago he bought his caddy a Corvette and himself an Escalade.
And I bought Jason's beer and wings last year at Whistling Straits. What's wrong with this picture?

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It was Jason's beer. He let me taste it!

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Old 08-17-2011, 03:28 PM
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yea i noticed his waggle too reminds me of what homer says about tour players that are off-plane, its like they need to throw the club off plane to get the sensation they are resisting it, sort of the same idea with his exaggerated waggle. Dufs got the sweetest beergut going on

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I like the waggle.
Got me back in touch with my right forearm flying wedge.
I start out with straight line condition with the shaft and right arm and as I bend my right wrist I automatically bend my right elbow.
The bend in the right wrist and bend in the right elbow neutralizes each other and allows me to keep the shaft in a perpendicular to the target.
The waggle helps me find "feel" that angle
It took me a year but I finally figure out the "magic" of the right forearm.
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I believe its important to waggle in a way thats in preparation for what you are about to undertake. To light up the pressure points you are about to employ.

That said, what do you guys say to the thought that Hogan, a Drag Loader who Loaded the knuckle at the base of his right hand index finger, conversely waggled a Loading of the "First Joint in the right hand Index Finger"? Was it perhaps in preparation for Radial Acceleration through the ball? That'd make sense. But then it wasnt the " direction of loading" he used during Takeaway or in Transition. Or did he actually load the Knuckle somewhat the Rotated Pressure Point?

I dunno, but I do know that Homer didnt like his waggle on the grounds that it was a rehearsed Quiting at the ball. Homer preferred a waggle overtop of the ball that made its way to Both Arms Straight. Sorta like Davis Love's waggle.

Does anybody have video of Johnny Revolta's waggle? Supposedly it was the inspiration for the Hogan waggle.

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