5 Elements Blog
Your daily dose of the 5 Elements of Success to strengthen
your golf game and enrich your life!
Earn the Right to Rotate
The phrase ‘you can’t run before you can walk’ is one that resonates in all parts of life. In the world of golf performance and rotational training, it means you must earn the right to rotate! An efficient golf swing involves a combination of mobility and stability in the right areas to produce the most power possible. The phrase itself was coined by a leader in strength and conditioning and...
Your Environment Matters!
As you move into golf’s “off” season, take some time to understand your stats, scores, go through a thorough assessment of your golf, physical, mental skills, and your equipment. Put an engaged effort into building a program that will help you succeed in reaching your goals. The “off” season is a great time to turn “on” the most beneficial work to turn your good game into a great g...
The Long Road to Success
Many endeavors in life entail a long journey through a myriad of obstacles, highs and lows, and periods of self-doubt. No matter what you have committed to there will be times when you will have doubt about your potential and your why. Is this really for me? Am I really capable of accomplishing the goal that I established for myself? Many people don’t realize what so many great athletes ha...
Relentless
At the end of the summer, all of the coaches at GPC gather to choose a word or phrase that will serve as inspiration for the upcoming academic year. This year, we chose ‘relentless’ to lead us on our journey. As defined by Merriam-Webster.com, relentless is “the showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace : determined, dogged, grim, implacable, unappeasable, u...
PDI Week at GPC!
This week we are excited to measure our athletes and by the end of the week we will have the first of four yearly measurements of our junior golfers. Here at GPC we refer to this as the Player Development Index and this is PDI week! It has been really great to see our athletes go through measurements all week, and with accurate data we can show them how close or far they are from the plans the...
