Robust Golfer

Golf has been part of my life since childhood. I spent summers on the course with my dad and grandfather, where I developed an early appreciation for the skill and precision required to play the game well. My interest in physical preparation began around the same time. By eight years old, I was already following structured workouts in my parents’ basement and began to see how training influenced not only athletic performance but also confidence and resilience.

A high ankle sprain during my hockey years introduced me to sports medicine and rehabilitation. That experience shaped my career direction and led me to pursue a degree in kinesiology at Simon Fraser University. During my time there, I became deeply engaged in biomechanics, physiology, and applied research, developing a strong interest in how physical qualities can be measured, monitored, and improved to support performance and durability.

After graduating, I gained experience working with elite and professional athletes across a range of sports, including time spent in high-performance environments such as FC Barcelona. While I valued the breadth of that experience, I found myself continually drawn to golf. The sport presents a unique combination of biomechanics, force production, and energy transfer, and it rewards precision in ways few sports do.

When I began working with golfers, I noticed a consistent pattern across the golf fitness industry. Many of the prevailing methods were built from rehabilitation frameworks rather than performance principles. This approach is useful for injured players but insufficient for healthy golfers who want to increase speed, improve consistency, and tolerate higher training loads.

Exercises that appeared sport specific often did not develop the strength or force production required for meaningful improvement. Corrective routines and balance work tended to dominate programs, despite limited evidence that they produced meaningful changes in swing mechanics or on-course performance. The outcome was predictable. Golfers were not becoming stronger, faster, or more resilient, and many remained stuck in cycles of pain, underloading, and frustration.

My early work with golfers was grounded in sports medicine principles, with an emphasis on managing symptoms and improving movement quality. As I began working with more competitive players, it became clear that many ongoing performance limitations were not technical in nature but physical. These athletes required greater strength and force production to support the demands of the modern swing. When training began to address these qualities more directly, progress became faster and more consistent.

Drawing on my experience working with athletes in other sports, I integrated evidence-based strength and power training principles into golf physical preparation. This shift reflected a simple reality. The golf swing is a high-velocity rotational movement that places substantial demands on force production, coordination, and tissue tolerance. When these physical qualities are underdeveloped, performance is limited and the risk of pain increases.

When strength and explosive training became a central part of the process, the results were clear and consistent. Pain decreased as load tolerance improved. Clubhead speed and driving distance increased. Swing consistency improved, particularly under fatigue. Golfers were able to maintain higher performance levels deeper into tournaments, and injury recurrence declined as overall robustness increased.

Stronger golfers absorbed and redirected forces more effectively. They moved faster, recovered more efficiently, and tolerated greater practice volumes. Concerns that strength training would negatively affect the swing faded once players observed measurable improvements and experienced the benefits on the course.

My work is focused on helping golfers build the physical qualities that support speed, consistency, and long-term resilience, delivered through a fully online coaching model that allows me to work with golfers across different locations. The modern game places significant demands on the body, and the best players in the world prepare for those demands with structured strength and conditioning, not isolated mobility routines or visually specific exercises.

My approach is informed by ongoing professional development within contemporary golf performance research, including accreditation through the Golf Performance Network, a research-driven framework focused on biomechanics, physical preparation, and performance transfer in golf. In parallel, I conduct ongoing applied research within my own coaching practice, using athlete monitoring, performance testing, and longitudinal training data to refine and guide training decisions in real-world settings. This combined approach allows training to be grounded in research while remaining responsive to the realities of individual athletes.

• Strength training does not inherently reduce mobility or swing quality.
• Pain is not always a reliable indicator of tissue damage.
• More practice alone does not guarantee better performance.

Golf is evolving into a sport where physical preparation is increasingly recognized as a key performance driver. My mission is to help golfers train in ways that increase capacity, reduce pain, and support higher performance through evidence-informed methods.

If you are ready to train with a structured and professional approach that connects physical qualities to performance outcomes, you can book a call using the link below and we can determine if we are a good fit to work together.