Better Swing
Better contact = Straighter / Farther
The Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) developed a program to train Golf Professionals, Personal Trainers, Physical Therapists, Chiropractors and Medical Practitioners to understand the correlation between a golfer’s physical limitations and their swing flaws.
What does that mean?
Have you spent all day at Topgolf and left feeling like you’ve made zero improvement? Have you gone to a golf instructor, who informed you that you’re not making a good turn, coming over the top, swaying, or sliding? Despite your attempts to correct these flaws, you fail miserably.
These physical limitations are some of the reasons you don’t “make a good turn” or you “come over the top” or you “sway or slide.”
Have you been trying to increase your drive?
Have you been trying to get better play with your irons?
Identifying these flaws and issues with your swing will improve your all around game
By identifying these limitations and providing some easy exercises to eliminate these limitations, correction of the golf swing is now possible. In many cases, it’s not your swing, it’s your body! Fix your body, and you can fix your swing!
Even if you are not a golfer, maybe you play another sport (baseball, tennis, soccer, football and more) or want to improve your overall fitness level, you should invest in yourself and go through a TPI fitness screen.
Continue reading below to learn more…..
Why You Should See A TPI Professional
If you are looking to improve your golf performance, specifically through golf fitness, you should go to the same place where the professional golfers go, to a certified TPI professional.
Here are some reasons why the TPI system works so well.
- The TPI physical screen and swing analysis system (body/swing connection) is simple and uses no special equipment.
- Physical limitations and swing characteristics can easily be identified.
- The screens are standardized so they are consistent from day to day and from TPI professional to TPI professional.
- Quick to diagnose physical limitations and swing flaws.
- More complicated equipment and methods can be applied later if needed.
- The initial screening is inexpensive.
- The TPI advisory board is made up of multiple discipline experts so the screen and solutions cover many facets of golf performance.
- The TPI system uses a team of specialized TPI professionals from the fields of fitness, medical and instruction.
The screening process is standardized so a screen performed by a professional in the UK is the same as in California. You can count on the initial screen and follow-up screens are the same. That way progress can be tracked from accurately from the start.
The TPI advisory board who oversees how the system works are some of the best minds in fitness, medical and instruction provide the best exercises, rehab methods, and swing instruction to you. The same methods and instruction that the professional golfers receive. That means you are getting the exact same coaching as the PROS!
A Little TPI Professional History
When I was at a TPI Professional certification seminar Dave Phillips, one of the co-founders of TPI, share his story about how TPI got started.
At the time, Dave was a golf professional working in Maryland with some top-level golfers. Dave had a client (the young Peter Uihlein- son of the Titleist CEO) that just couldn’t get the club into the swing positions he wanted his client to have.
Dave had read an article in a local paper about Dr. Greg Rose, who was helping golfers with their physical fitness & medical needs in the Washington DC area. The article spoke highly of results Dr. Rose was obtaining from his clients.
One rainy day, Dave suggested to his client that they should drive down to DC and talk to Dr. Rose. Dave called and set up an afternoon appointment. Once they arrived, the first thing that Dr. Rose did was run the client through a physical fitness screen. The same TPI screening process used today.
Dave didn’t mention to Dr. Rose what the swing issues were, only that he would like him to screen Peter.
Once Greg completed the screening he came over to Dave and said that the client has X & Y physical limitations, and he probably has W & Z swing flaws.
Dave was floored, Dr. Rose hit it right on the nose without ever seeing the client’s swing, or talking to Dave about what swing issues the client was having.
Soon after, Dave and Greg started working together and decided to open a joint business. Since Peter Uihlein’s father saw the progress that Dave and Greg were making with his son he knew the process worked.
Uihlein also saw the business potential that screening could have, not only on its own but with his company too. That is how Titleist became the sponsor for what is now TPI.
The TPI Screening & Swing Analysis Works
The TPI screening and video swing analysis are excellent tools that are used to identify possible physical limitations that are affecting your golf swing.
The TPI profession is trained to run you through a physical fitness screen and use video of your swing to narrow down physical limitations that affect your mobility and strength responsible for your swing characteristics.
Corrective exercises are assigned to reduce or eliminate the identified limitations.
With the limitations fixed your body will now have the mobility and stability to execute a more consistent golf swing.
The combination of physical screening and video swing analysis focuses on the issues that matter in the golf swing.
The TPI system has been proven to work not only on professional golfers but amateurs as well.
A TPI professional certification program was developed so the method could be shared across the country.
Combining TPI Screening & Swing Analysis
On their own the physical screening and swing analysis is a powerful tool to identify physical limitations.
However, there can be multiple reasons for each physical limitation and swing characteristic.
The power of the TPI system is realized when the physical screening and swing analysis are used together.
By combining the screening and analysis, the cause for the swing issue can be narrowed down.
Even if you are not a golfer, maybe you play another sport or want to improve your overall fitness level, you should invest in yourself and go through a TPI fitness screen.
Functional fitness will help you move better and enjoy life more! If you want to know more about my TPI experiences!
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