Like so many aspiring golfers, my goal in life was to play on the PGA Tour. When it became clear that wasn’t going to happen, I shifted my attention to the golf business and teaching. I dedicated myself to instruction and worked my way through the PGA of America program earning the status of Class “A” Professional. The years I spent teaching allowed me to observe first-hand the common problems that most amateurs experience with their golf swing. I noticed that the beginners as well as the accomplished players were being held back by the same basic problems.

“The beginners as well as the accomplished players were being held back by the same basic problems.”

While I was teaching a close friend qualified for the PGA Tour and asked me to caddie for him. After years of teaching, I saw this as an opportunity to expand my knowledge and teaching ability by observing the best players in the world close-up, and accepted his invitation. While caddying on the PGA Tour, I paid close attention to every detail of how the players practiced and played. It was these observations that crystallized my understanding of the golf swing and what was needed to teach the athletic motion of a rhythmic, balanced swing.

“I found that my students made the greatest and most immediate improvement by helping them to swing in rhythm while maintaining balance.”

I continued to teach during the PGA Tour off-season, incorporating the key elements of the top Tour Professionals golf swings into my teaching. I found that my students made the greatest and most immediate improvement by helping them to swing in rhythm while maintaining balance. My original teaching style was formulated around learning to control the golf club and face while swinging and attempting to hit a ball. Most amateurs, and many pros, are very concerned with positions of the golf club during the swing. They get lost in trying to achieve various positions they are convinced are necessary as they attempt to hit at the ball rather than swing through the ball. I took the focus away from “position” and their “hitting” action, and put it squarely on their motion. By doing so, their results (and positions) greatly improved.

“I wanted to develop a device that would provide golfers with dynamic feedback, and help them feel their body swinging in a tour pro motion”

It was this shift in philosophy that led me to develop a tool that could help a golfer feel and learn the golf swing motion. I wanted a device that would provide golfers with dynamic feedback, and help them feel their body swinging in a tour pro motion. After years of research, experimentation, and collaboration I was confident that I had the perfect tool and The Orange Whip Trainer was launched.

The Orange Whip Trainer is a golf swing aid and a golf fitness product for a new generation. I believe it to be the best swing aid ever created and I’m confident that anyone that uses my product on a regular basis will agree.