RotarySwing.com Affiliation

I'm really happy to announce my affiliation with RotarySwing.com.  Rotary Swing was developed by Florida based golf coach Chuck Quinton.  I have been a member of the site for over 4 years and use much of the technical and biomechanical understanding in my own swing and in what I teach.  In my opinion this is the best golf instruction site on the internet, and I am happy to have this association. 

For more information about how I found Rotary Swing, and why I , please have a look at this article.  If you have lessons with me already, then no doubt you will recognise a lot of the material on there, although new video's and articles appear almost every week.  There are over 150 video's, dealing with every aspect of the golf swing from basic fundamentals of setup, through to advanced shotmaking and maximising distance potential.

One of the main reasons for becoming an affiliate is to give my students more tools and points of reference.  The video's are excellent quality and clearly illustrate the main points I teach in my lessons.  I hope that they will speed up the learning process and help people reach their golfing goals more quickly andhelp them enjoy the game more.

My Golf Coaching Philosophy

The most important thing I do is help people enjoy their golf more.  So few golfers I play with seem to get much pleasure from a round of golf.  They may start with high expectations, but more often it becomes an ordeal to be overcome, with enjoyment and satisfaction entirely dependent on the score or result.  This approach leads to pressure, getting in your own way and frustratingly bad golf.  Hopefully I can help you understand how and why this happens, and help you get as much enjoyment and pleasure from the game as possible.

The more I learn about the game of golf the more I become convinced of the importance of the basics, the fundamentals.  If you get your hands on the club correctly, stand to the ball with good balance and posture, and make a good turn back and through, you will play some very nice golf.  Golf is a simple game, but not an easy one.  The golf swing itself is a simple movement, which unfortunately some people make more complicated than it needs to be.

Club Fitting Services.

Getting your clubs set up correctly is vitally important to ensure they perform to their best.  You can have the best swing in the world, but if your clubs are too flat or too upright, too long or too short,  you are going to have to make compensations in order to hit the ball correctly.  If you consistently miss green on one side or the other then there is a good chance that your irons might be set up either to flat or too upright. If you are struggling for distance or hit the ball too low or too high, it may well be that your equipment is set up badly for you, either in terms of weight, length, swingweight or clubface loft.  For the importance of getting properly fitted golf clubs have a look at these video's by leading clubmaker, Tom Wishon

If you miss to the left, especially with the short irons,  your irons may be too upright.  The toe of the club will be up in the air, causing the face angle to be aiming way left and sometimes will cause the ball to fly to far.  If you miss shots to the right, it may be that your irons are too flat, causing the face angle to be aimed right of where you think it is. 

Another really destructive aspect of having improperly fitted clubs will be the tendency for the golfer to adjust their setup to accomodate for this fact.  The clubmaker provides much of the information needed for us to set up to the ball correctly.  The distance from the ball and the amount of spinal tilt is dictated by the club being used.  If your clubs don't fit, your setup, posture and address position will be wrong.  You will then have to make adjustments during the swing to accomodate.