We teach golf instructors, fitness and medical pros how to evaluate golfers for physical limitations which may be affecting their swing. Assess, don’t guess.
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Many golfers who come over the top have transition backwards. They feel like the downswing starts with rotation, so they spin open from the top, throwing the club out and over the plane. Hello, slice.
The fix isn’t no rotation. It’s better sequence. Starting the downswing with a lateral move toward the target not only shifts pressure into the lead side, it helps shallow the club.
Now rotation becomes an asset. With the club shallow, a player can rotate as aggressively as they want and the path stays on plane. The lateral shift earns the right to turn hard.
This is one of the ways we teach coaches to use force plate data in our advanced seminars. When we see an over-the-top pattern and lateral force is low or late, we start cues from the ground up.
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There’s not one “right” way to swing a golf club.
Dave Phillips breaks down a bowed vs. cupped lead wrist and explains why a golfer should understand their own movement capabilities before copying a swing they see on TV.
A bowed lead wrist tends to deloft the club and add forward shaft lean, which can be advantageous on iron shots. However, with the driver, a bowed wrist may require more side bend through impact to deliver enough loft and launch.
Which means wrist position can place very different demands on the body. That’s why we screen a golfer’s movement first, before making technical recommendations.
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Full video with Ryan Gerard on our YouTube channel youtu.be/nBG6F65Rlrk
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Loved seeing our friend and @OnBaseU instructor @yager20 featured on @CBSMornings.
A reminder of the lasting impact we can have on the people we coach and train.
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Fitting clubs that are too long and too heavy is one of the most common mistakes we see, especially with junior golfers.
Club fitting must be married with instruction. A golfer adapts to whatever is in their hands, so poorly fit clubs can train compensations that a lesson might have to fight.
When the fitting is dialed in, the coaching and the clubs are able to pull in the same direction.
As Dave Phillips says, "Make sure your clubs are working toward where you want to go, not stopping you from where you want to go."
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You can’t stabilize your way out of a mobility problem. If the hip won’t rotate, the body is likely to steal that rotation from somewhere else.
In this case, the site of discomfort might be the lower back, but the “cause” is the hip.
The answer isn’t more core stability, it’s hip mobility. Assess, don’t guess.
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Kicking off our Medical Level 3 seminar this Friday. Our next M3 seminar runs December 11–13.
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“I saw a 5 mph increase like that.”
@bencranegolf describing how learning to unweight in transition helped him generate higher ground reaction forces on the downswing, resulting in an immediate jump in clubhead speed.
Ben’s journey to 120 mph has also included serious physical and speed training, but this change is an example of how encouraging a more athletic swing can produce instant speed.
Full video on our YouTube (link below)
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A few familiar faces near the top of leaderboards this weekend 👀
Check out their full TPI sessions on our channel youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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It's never too late to get faster. ⚡️
@bencranegolf added 10 mph of clubhead speed in his late 40s through dedicated training and swing development. We just posted a short lesson with him on our YouTube channel detailing how unweighting in transition allowed him to push against the ground more effectively, producing a huge jump in his speed.
The result? Three top 10s on the PGA TOUR Champions in just eight starts, culminating in his first win on Sunday.
Full video: youtu.be/bY9JhsD_wBU
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We always say “down is death” in chipping, but toward is just as deadly.
Golfers who thrust toward the ball tend to have a shallow angle of attack and can get the club stuck behind them. This leads to inconsistent contact and less spin.
The best short games we measure on 3D and force plates do the opposite: though the motion is small, it’s usually up, back, and toward the target.
Part 2 of our lesson with retired NBA player Solomon Hill is up on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/sAhxiXfL6Hs?si=uDcQ…
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Club fitting must be married with instruction. A golfer adapts to whatever is in their hands, so poorly fit clubs can train compensations that a lesson might have to fight.
When the fitting is dialed in, the coaching and the clubs are able to pull in the same direction.
As Dave Phillips says, "Make sure your clubs are working toward where you want to go, not stopping you from where you want to go."
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From a session last month with Alvaro Ortiz, the latest Korn Ferry Tour champion.
Technology helps us do things in a lesson that a trained eye can’t on its own:
1.Confirm the concept: are we even talking about the same thing?
2.Verify real vs. feel: is the move he’s describing actually happening, or does it just feel like it?
3.Highlight the desired outcome: benchmarked against peers who produce it.
Assess, don’t guess.
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One of the most effective strategies for correcting Early Extension is to teach golfers to use their legs to "drive their arms."
By pushing aggressively against the ground with their lead leg, golfers can counteract the centrifugal force of the club, which is "pulling" them toward the target line on the downswing.
In our force plate evaluations, golfers who early extend consistently show low anterior-posterior force in the lead leg. They simply aren't pushing hard enough to resist that pull.
Full video on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/Wu3-TxgRTWA?si=VQ36…
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Congratulations to Alvaro Ortiz on his breakthrough win on the @kornferrytour.
Alvaro came to TPI in late-April with his trainer - and our Fitness Level 2 and 3 instructor - Janet Alexander. Like virtually every great golfer we meet, he was eager to put in the work, but wanted to be sure he was working on the right thing.
When you apply a system for evaluating players, you become far more confident in the recommendations you make for their training, treatment and coaching. Assess, don’t guess.
All the credit to players like Alvaro for putting the plan to work and executing on the course. 🏆
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Few Body-Swing Connections are as common as the link between internal hip rotation and early extension.
When a golfer is limited in their ability to internally rotate into the trail hip on the backswing or the lead hip on the downswing, they may compensate by thrusting toward the target line, a characteristic we call early extension.
Golfers can still play at an elite level with early extension, but the loss of space can make it difficult to deliver the club. Some get stuck and flip the club, producing a two-way miss.
mytpi.com/articles/swing/a-r…
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