TPI: How A Rotary Stool Became Our Favorite Tool for Helping Golfers Use the Ground

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By Zack R., Team Titleist Staff

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  1. Team Titleist Staff

    The Titleist Performance Institute is the world's leading educational organization dedicated to the study of how the human body functions in relation to the golf swing. Since its inception in 2003, TPI has studied thousands of golfers ranging from the top professional Tour players to weekend enthusiasts – gathering an incredible amount of data on players of all shapes, sizes, ages, and fitness levels.

    Using this data, TPI discovered how a properly functioning body allows a player to swing a golf club in the most efficient way possible, and how physical limitations in a player’s body can adversely affect the golf swing, which could potentially lead to injury. 

    TPI protocols are developed and tested through many strategic partnerships with NCAA Universities, major health-care hospital systems, leading fitness organizations, professional golf associations and national Olympic sports development programs on five continents. Everything TPI teaches has been validated through years of research and testing by industry leading experts, many of whom sit on the TPI advisory board. 

    So, it’s no wonder why your favorite professional golfers and podcasters are spinning around on rotary chairs: They’ve become one of the most effective tools for communicating how a golfer should push against the ground. 

    Whether early extension, loss of posture, sway, slide or even coming over the top, many of the most common swing characteristics we identify can be addressed by improving how we use the ground. Watch TPI’s lesson with Mike from Chasing Scratch above and check out the full article here to learn more about how the timing and direction of your ground force can be just as important as the amount of force itself.

    Article: How A Rotary Stool Became Our Favorite Tool for Helping Golfers Use the Ground

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  2. Steve R

    Steve R
    Madison AL

    Military
    Very interesting concept, I'm going to have to give this a try.

    Thank you TT great work.
  3. Guy W

    Guy W
    Statesville, NC

    I just found a new use for my office chair. Definitely taking all this in so I can start working on it. Going to have to rewatch this a few times.
  4. I’ve been golfing for 25 years, never a lesson, and just started learning about wrist flexion. It’s been a game changer once I tinkered with it enough
  5. ACastro

    ACastro
    Arlington, Tx

    I would have never thought to use a stool on wheels as a teaching aid
  6. I’m definitely giving this a try
  7. Edwin G

    Edwin G
    Allen Park, MI

    Scott P said:

    I’m definitely giving this a try

    Using ground force has been an enigma for me but the segment on sequencing “lateral, rock & roll, twist and release.” Well left foot, let’s give it a go.
  8. Corey T

    Corey T
    Tyrone, GA

    Military
    I think I need to go buy a stool ASAP!!!!!
  9. Something to try at work.

    Is there any videos about the rock n roll, twist, etc.
  10. Tyler_S

    Tyler_S
    Cypress, TX

    I have tried this and it makes total sense. Harder than you think to really focus on the left foot and what the stool is trying to get you to do. My advice is to start really slow using the stool and a pitching motion to retrain your sequencing. From there make the swing longer but still on the slower side.

    For many of us the difficulty is in the retaining our sequence than anything. Muscle memory does not die easy.

    It does work but be patient.

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