Had a blast being part of the Detroit Bulldogs golf outing at St. Clair Shores Golf Club alongside Brandon and Chris from Belle Isle Golf.

Our team clinched a 4-shot victory with an impressive -15 total score. A highlight of the day was our final hole—Par 4, 302 yards to the center, with a back pin on the 17th. I stepped up, hit a great drive to the back of the green, and followed it up with an eagle putt to cap off the round!

Such an incredible day, full of fun and great golf.

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The 5th video in Be Better Golf's series with me is live!

In this episode, after filming at Costa Mesa Golf Club, Brendon and I headed over to John Ortega's Ortega Puttlab. John, who works with PGA TOUR player Jake Knapp, generously allowed us to use his gym equipment and hitting bay equipped with a Trackman launch monitor.

In the video, we dive into aspects of the swing like foot flare, stance width, and a few other elements that can make a big difference in your game. It was great to get hands-on with the Trackman to break down these details and share them with you.

Have a look at the clip below:

Video 4 of my afternoon with Brendon of Be Better Golf is out. This clip is a follow-up to the 3rd video talking about swing speed training.

Have a look here!


And if you missed the other first two clips, here are those again:

Video 1: A bit about my rapid transformation from 14 index golfer to professional golfer
 

Video 2: The Mike Austin golf swing (golf's 515-yard man)

Thrilled to drink from a champions cup for winning the inaugural Five Iron Golf club championship last night in Detroit!

A big shoutout to Ryan Miller, Mike Snyder, Brendan Downs, Alex Moses, & everyone at Five Iron Golf for organizing such a fantastic event.

This year has been quite different for me. While I’ve done various outings & even set a venue record on the Toptracer at Belle Isle Golf with a 373-yard drive, it’s the first time in my 21-year professional career that I haven’t played in an outdoor tour type of event or a major qualifier like the U.S. Open Championship, The Open, or the PGA Championship.

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At 48, I’m feeling healthy & fully intend to play tournaments again, though it may have to wait until I finish my memoir. I’m currently 180 pages in, with over 100,000 words written. I’m not sure where the book length will land, but I’m close to the end & excited to share it once it’s done. Reflecting on everything that’s happened over the years has been both nostalgic & cathartic, & it’s helping me envision what might be next.

Brendon from Be Better Golf released the 3rd video from our afternoon of filming together in Costa Mesa, California!

If you missed the first two videos, you can catch them here:

• Video 1 – My rapid transformation from a 14-index golfer to a professional golfer.
• Video 2 – An exploration of Mike Austin’s legendary 515-yard drive and his unique golf swing.

In this 3rd video, we dive into Swing Man Golf’s swing speed training protocols. Swing speed training has been gaining more awareness recently, especially after Bryson DeChambeau’s well-known increase in swing speed.

But did you know it’s been around for quite some time?

I launched Swing Man Golf back in 2007, and since then, it has been recognized as an industry-leading resource for swing speed training. We’ve even received the prestigious Golf Fitness Association of America (GFAA) award every year for our work in this field.

Check out the video below to learn more about our proven swing speed training methods:


I hope you enjoy it!

Remember to like, comment, and subscribe to both our channels for more great content.

Brendon of Be Better Golf has released a second clip of our afternoon together talking golf. In this one, we talk about the Mike Austin golf swing, which is where I got my start in golf in 2003. Austin, if you are familiar, is the man who hit a Guinness World Record 515-yard drive in the 1974 US National Senior Open with a 43.5" steel-shafted persimmon wood driver and balata ball. The swing is a big part of what led me to winning the Pinnacle Distance Challenge with a televised 381-yard drive.

Here's the clip with Brendon:


Speaking of Mike Austin, if you haven't ever seen my 2012 video about the Mike Austin swing, it's available on my YouTube channel here. I bootstrapped the video together with virtually a zero budget, but it's holding up quite well to the test of time and people in the comments really seem to love it.

Make sure to like and comment on both videos as well as subscribing to both our channels!

I finally had the opportunity on Monday to meet up in person with Brendon of Be Better Golf to talk golf for a few hours. Here's the first clip of our conversation.

In California from August 16th to 25th..

When you are in the business of writing articles, they don't always get published right away. Case in point: the article I submitted to the Golf Fitness Association of America (GFAA) on May 24th didn't publish until June 25th. Enough time passed that I actually forgot I submitted it, which made for a nice surprise today when I opened my inbox and found it had gone live.

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Our human experience comes with the dimension of time, bringing aging and all the things many of us associate with it—hair loss, greying, new wrinkles, strange skin spots, and more. In golf, over time, statistically we lose power and distance.

But does it have to be like that?

I'm not sure it does.

I've heard tales of tribes that lived healthy lives for roughly 200 years until they were discovered by others and learned they weren't "supposed" to live that long. Within a generation or more, lifespans decreased to what we consider normal.

We also live in a multidimensional electromagnetic field. In the dimensional space of oneness, geometrically there is no A and B of time, only A—the now. This space is one of abundance and perfect health. We can access it, in part because we're already in and of it.

Without getting any further into the metaphysical, the point is, similar to what Morpheus said to Neo in "The Matrix," some rules can be bent, others broken. We can challenge conventional thinking to experience something different and even better.

That's partly what this article, "Defying Age: How to Maintain and Increase Distance As You Get Older", is about.

Read it here on the GFAA website in the June issue of Golf Fitness Monthly.

My wife, Jennifer Giroux of Giroux Impact, and I live in the space of innovation, quite literally. We intentionally chose our neighborhood of Hubbard Richard to be in the Transportation Innovation Zone (TIZ) within walking distance of Michigan Central and New Lab, in part because innovation is at our cores.

As compassionate leaders of integrity and entrepreneurs who value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and with me having roots in tech dating back to the dot-com days, it was a no-brainer to say yes when Johnnie Turnage and Alexa Turnage invited me to be their special guest at the Black Tech Saturdays golf clinic at Belle Isle Golf, incidentally also one of my favorite places in Detroit. I had a fantastic time at the event, and we were blessed with near-perfect golf weather.

A heartfelt thank you to the participants, volunteers, Rocket Mortgage Classic, and everyone who made this event possible. I was grateful for the opportunity to lend my golf expertise and look forward to many more fun events together.

Enjoy some of the amazing photos captured by Tay Ford of Heart of the City Photography!

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48 and can still bring the heat! My 372.60 yard drive is the greatest of all time at Belle Isle Golf Detroit! Love hitting balls here on the TopTracer Range and playing the Par3 6-hole course!

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After winning my 3rd straight Golf Fitness Association of America (GFAA) award, I got asked to collaborate on a golf fitness article for PGA.com. I decided to do something centered around swing speed training to help golfers add distance to their full shots, which is statistically a crucial key to lower scores.

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Check out the full article here!

Over at SwingManGolf.com, we sold the Sports Sensors Swing Speed Radar for 11 years from 2009-2019. After approximately a 5 year hiatus, we've decided to reintroduce it to the product lineup.


It's a nice price, it's portable, and it's very easy to use with just a single button. Overall, it's a fantastic product to have as part of any swing speed training program.

Get one here!

Today I received an email from Rick Summers, the CEO of the Golf Fitness Association of America (GFAA), informing me that Swing Man Golf and I were selected as an award winner in the Off-Course category.

This was our 3rd straight win!

Congratulations to all the other winners and thank you to Rick and the staff of the GFAA for the recognition!

If you are at all interested in swing speed training for more distance and power from tee to green on the golf course to lower your handicap potential, check out what we have to offer at Swing Man Golf.

We've been the industry leaders in this category since 2007!

Pros and fitness trainers also have the option of going through our certification program…and PGA of America professionals can earn 7 PDR continuing education points once the assessment is passed.

It's my 48th birthday!


Jen and I started out the day with a health maintenance visit to Dr. Salame at Health First Chiropractic Clinic, I had an astrology reading with Evan Nathaniel Grim, we had dinner at The Highlands on the 71st and 72nd floor of the GMRENCEN in downtown Detroit, grabbed an evening drink at Bar Pigalle with a couple friends, and then polished it off with a post bar hang at their house.

It was a fine way to start this next trip around the sun!