Titlelist Performance Institute Golf Screen & Golf Physio
What is TPI?
Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) is the world's leading educational organisation dedicated to the study of how the human body functions in relation to the golf swing. For over twenty years, TPI has gathered the world’s largest technical database of the game’s top Tour professionals as well as every-day golfers. TPI collects 3D motion capture, force, pressure, launch monitor, strength, power, and movement data on every player that visits the TPI campus. Using this data, TPI discovered how a properly functioning body allows a player to swing a golf club in the most efficient way possible. Conversely, TPI determined how physical limitations in a player’s body can adversely affect the golf swing and potentially lead to injury. This relationship is what TPI calls The Body-Swing Connection and is the foundation of all professional Certification courses offered by TPI.
TPI’s Mission
TPI’s mission is to educate golfers and industry professionals on the Body-Swing Connection through its one of a kind TPI Certified educational program.
TPI’s Philosophy
TPI believes that golfers should match their swing style to their movement capabilities. The philosophy is simple: There are an infinite number of ways to swing a golf club. However, there is one most-efficient way for each player to swing a club and it is based on what they can physically do.
TPI’s Assessment Screen
If you don’t assess, it’s just a guess.
To achieve an efficient swing, a golfer must first be screened. A proper screen involves an assessment of swing mechanics, biomechanics, physical fitness, movement quality, current health, and injury history.
The TPI movement screen is a simple test to quickly evaluate a player’s physical capabilities. The screen involves a 16-point checklist assessing motor control, balance, strength, endurance & range of motion. You either pass, partially pass (if modification is required) or fail each component of the test.
The results of that assessment are used to determine how technical elements of the player’s swing could be related to what their body can or cannot do. Once this screen is finished, the results are used to create a plan unique for that golfer. The plan may include strength and conditioning, physiotherapy, coaching of swing mechanics and biomechanics, nutrition, mental strategy or all of the above. We can work closely with your golf coaching professional.
Why should I get a golf screen?
We frequently receive referrals from coaching professionals where they suspect a certain plateau in a players progress may be physical rather than technical. Like all activity, your swing is limited by what the body can physically do! Your coach may be wanting to get you in a certain position, but if your body is physically unable to get into that position, that swing change will never come and other areas of the body will always compensate. This can lead to pain, injury or poor swing characteristics/consistency.