Services
Golf Training
Golf is a rotational sport played from one side, and the low back pays for it more than anything else. A TPI evaluation looks at how your body moves through the swing — hips, thoracic spine, shoulders, balance — and finds the physical limits that are costing you distance, consistency, or a pain-free round. Then we fix the ones that can be fixed.
Why SportsCare
Why golfers choose SportsCare
TPI-certified physical therapists
Our golf evaluations are done by physical therapists certified through the Titleist Performance Institute — clinicians who can treat the injury as well as assess the swing.
Body first, then swing
A golf coach changes your technique; we change what your body is able to do. If your hips cannot rotate, no lesson will fix an early extension. The two work best together.
Honest about what fitness can and cannot do
Strength and mobility work reliably improves the physical capacities the swing depends on. Whether that shows up as lower scores depends on you and your coach — we do not promise strokes off your handicap.
What a TPI evaluation includes
Golf fitness screen
A physical therapist takes you through the TPI movement screen — pelvic rotation, torso rotation, single-leg balance, overhead reach and more — measuring the capacities the swing depends on.
Video swing analysis
Your swing on video, reviewed against the physical findings, with a written report. Common swing faults — loss of posture, early extension, sway and slide — are matched to their physical causes.
A golf-specific program
Mobility, strength, power and core work targeted at your limitations and your goals, designed for the gym or for home.
Follow-up
Re-screening to measure change, and progression of the program as your body allows.
Golf injuries: what the research shows
The low back is the most commonly injured area in golf, followed by the elbow, wrist and shoulder. Among amateurs, injuries are most often linked to poor swing mechanics and overuse; among professionals, to volume. Reviews of golf injury epidemiology consistently point to the rotational demands on the lumbar spine and to physical restrictions — limited hip and thoracic rotation especially — as contributing factors.
Physical therapy for a golfer's back, elbow or shoulder follows the same evidence as for anyone else's. The golf evaluation adds the layer of understanding which physical limits are driving the swing pattern that keeps re-injuring it.
Who it is for
Golfers with pain — back, elbow, wrist, shoulder or hip — that comes on during or after a round. Golfers coming back from an injury or surgery who want to return without re-injury. Golfers without pain who want a physical foundation for the changes their coach is asking for. Any age: the evaluation is scaled to a junior player and to a retiree playing five days a week.
Where it is offered
TPI golf evaluations are performed by TPI-certified physical therapists at select SportsCare clinics in New Jersey, New York and Florida. Call any clinic and the front desk will direct you to the nearest certified therapist.
FAQ
Common questions
- Will a TPI evaluation lower my scores?
- It will identify and improve the physical limitations that affect your swing. Whether that turns into lower scores depends on practice and coaching too. What it reliably does is help you swing with less pain and less risk of injury.
- Do I need to bring my clubs?
- Bring your driver and a mid-iron if you can. The swing analysis is filmed in the clinic, so you will hit into a net or make practice swings, depending on the location.
- Is this covered by insurance?
- If you have pain or an injury, the evaluation and treatment are physical therapy and are typically covered like any other visit. A performance-only evaluation without an injury is usually self-pay; ask the clinic for the rate.
- Can I do the program at home?
- Yes. Programs are written for the equipment you have, whether that is a full gym or a resistance band and a broomstick.
Sources
The clinical claims on this page are drawn from the following. Where the evidence is limited, we say so above rather than round it up.
- 1.Golf injuries: a review of the literature — Sports Medicine, 2006
- 2.Titleist Performance Institute — Certification — Titleist Performance Institute
- 3.Low Back Pain — OrthoInfo, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Talk to a therapist about golf training
Availability varies by clinic. Call the location nearest you and the front desk will tell you whether it is offered there and whether it suits your condition — or reach our main office at (973) 887-9000.
64 clinics across New Jersey, New York and Florida.