Michigan Golf Journal December 2019

Michigan Golf Journal Golf Technology When video came onto the scene, golf instruction was revolutionized because teachers could more than just talk about how to improve a golfer’s swing – they could show you. The same now goes for what your foundation – your feet – are doing before and during the swing. A recent joint agreement between V1 Golf and BodiTrak to create the V1 Sports Pressure Mat powered by BodiTrak gives golfers and their instructors new data collection options to ‘paint a picture’ better than ever before. “When video came out it established and helped golfers see positions of the swing that they weren’t necessarily aware of,” said 2016 Michigan PGA Teacher of the Year Jeff Goble of the Fox Hills Performance Center in Plymouth Township. “Even exceptional players thought they were in one place, but they were not. Video doesn’t lie, and the video tells them something. “Now with the pressure mat, we get that same type of data but from a different source. How the feet interact with the ground transitions into the other moving parts of the Golf Data Feedback – From Head to Toe By Tom Lang