What is the Golf Performance Program?
If you want to get better at golf, our experts can help. We'll check out your swing, suggest changes to keep your muscles and joints injury-free and provide a personalized plan to improve your skills.
At The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, our Golf Performance team measures and trains your body to work as efficiently as possible.
Our comprehensive plan will address any of your movement limitations, strength and power deficiencies and consistency issues.
What are the services offered?
The Golf Performance Program, which is embedded in Ohio State Sports Medicine, offers a variety of services that are tailored to your needs as a golfer and will help you improve your game, strengthen your swing and prevent orthopedic injuries.
Golf Fitness Combine
Using 3D swing analysis, Physical Golf Screen and Power Screen Analysis, our experts provide you with a 6-week online program to improve consistency, increase power and limit injuries.
Golf Fitness Combine cost: $349
3D swing analysis
A 3D swing analysis provides the most detailed information available to golfers regarding swing mechanics, force development, weight transfer and efficiency. By creating a true 3D representation of your swing, we can capture each body segment throughout the swing and determine its contribution to generating consistent clubhead speed. We calculate your kinematic sequence – a representation of how efficiently you generate and transfer energy from your body to the club during your swing.
An inefficient golf swing often occurs because your body simply does not have the mobility or stability required to perform an efficient swing. Even with the best instructions and equipment, if your body doesn’t have the physical capability to perform an efficient swing, your game will always lack distance or accuracy. By determining your body’s physical strengths and weaknesses and comparing them to your kinematic sequence, we can best formulate a plan to help your golf swing.
3D Swing Analysis cost: $150
Golf Physical Screen
The Golf Physical Screen determines each golfer’s strengths and limitations in the areas of the body needed for golf. It includes an assessment of range of motion and flexibility, strength and stability, balance, power and golf-specific movement patterns.
For more in-depth analysis, the Power Screen involves physical tests to evaluate your ability to create power specific to your golf swing. Results will show areas needing improvement.
Both tools are administered by our Titleist Performance Institute (TPI)-certified professionals, and the package includes online access to a customized six-week training program based on results.
Golf Physical Screen cost: $150
Golf Physical Screen with Power Screen cost: $200
Individualized training programs
We'll create a customized training program to maximize your golf performance using the results from your physical screen and 3D analysis. We offer one-on-one and group training with a TPI-certified golf fitness professional or home exercise programming for you to perform on your own. Additionally, for our injured golfers, we offer physical therapy with a TPI-certified medical professional to get you back to golfing pain-free.
Individual, one-hour training cost: $85 per session
Group (3 or more) one-hour training cost: $25 per person per session
Package plans
These special packages will give you the diagnostics and tools to make improvements in your golf game. All packages include a Golf Physical Screen so you can see the progress you've made and any opportunities for the future.
- Hole-in-One ($1,800): 3D swing analysis and 18 sessions of performance training
- Eagle ($1,650): 18 sessions of performance training
- Birdie ($1,300): 3D swing analysis and 12 sessions of performance training
- Par ($500): 3D swing analysis, Power Screen, Power Testing, swing analysis, physical screen, Power Screen, two sessions of performance training
- Performance Combine ($349): 3D swing analysis, physical screen, Power Screen and six-week online program
What are the benefits of this program?
A more efficient game
Our TPI-certified professionals assess the total picture of your body and swing. By doing so, we identify everything from limitations to strength training opportunities for golf stability, mobility, balance, coordination and cardio-fitness. Our focus is on improving efficiency in your golf swing and helping you create a repeatable swing approach, so you know where the ball is going every time you swing based on how your body allows movement.
Injury prevention
Even if you don’t play golf frequently, poor technique or improper movements can result in injury. If you lack stability or mobility, your body will compensate according to these deficiencies. This pattern creates an inefficient golf swing that also increases your risk of injury.
Specific golf-related injuries can include:
