{"id":401,"date":"2011-04-26T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teemoore.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-04-26T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:18:32","slug":"snedeker-wins-the-heritage-with-assist-from-pga-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/golf\/instruction\/401\/snedeker-wins-the-heritage-with-assist-from-pga-teacher-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Snedeker wins The Heritage with assist from PGA Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Sunday was notable not only for The Heritage winner Brandt Snedeker but also for his instructor, former Michigan resident Todd Anderson, the current PGA National Teacher of the Year from Sea Island, Ga. A headliner at this winter\u2019s West Michigan Golf Show in Grand Rapids, Anderson has been Snedeker\u2019s teacher in recent years. He worked with him at the Masters where Snedeker contended and finished T-15, automatically qualifying him for next year\u2019s event. Snedeker also played well and finished fourth in Texas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_402\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/04\/ToddAnderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-402\" title=\"Todd Anderson\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/04\/ToddAnderson-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Driving up the coast from Sea Island, Anderson rejoined Snedeker at Harbour Town last week and it proved pivotal. After a disappointing third round of one-over par 72 which placed him six shots behind the leader, Snedeker returned to the range under the watchful eye of Anderson. Anderson emailed me this week saying the duo \u201cworked on sequencing Brandt\u2019s backswing to eliminate excess arm swing at the top. Basically we tried to shorten his arm swing while maintaining a full turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And <em>basically<\/em> it clicked for Snedeker. He went out on Sunday and fired the low round of the day, a seven-under par 64 which vaulted him into a playoff victory over Luke Donald and for his second Tour win. Incidentally, Snedeker has come back from two separate physical setbacks over the last two years. In 2009, he missed eight weeks on Tour due to a rib injury and late last year he had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left hip.<\/p>\n<p>A final note about Anderson who was born in Grand Rapids and graduated from Rockford High School before attending the University of Alabama on a golf scholarship: he\u2019ll be featured on May 1 at 2 pm, along with several other PGA teaching professionals, on a CBS Sports Special called \u201cSunrise to Sunset: A PGA Professional\u2019s Life\u201d which will kick off PGA Free Lesson Month and the 95<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of The PGA of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Sunday was notable not only for The Heritage winner Brandt Snedeker but also for his instructor, former Michigan resident&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/golf\/instruction\/401\/snedeker-wins-the-heritage-with-assist-from-pga-teacher-of-the-year\" title=\"ReadSnedeker wins The Heritage with assist from PGA Teacher of the Year\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5048,6120,5,7],"tags":[503,6396,6490,6724,6725,2591,1036820,1817,2832,6126,1036821],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-golf-assoc","category-the-masters","category-instruction","category-personalities","tag-pga-of-america","tag-brandt-snedeker","tag-todd-anderson","tag-pga-teacher-of-the-year","tag-west-michigan-golf-show","tag-golf-lessons","tag-golf","tag-sea-island","tag-terry-moore","tag-the-heritage","tag-masters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/04\/ToddAnderson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}