OLYMPIC PHYSICAL THERAPY has a rich tradition of providing High-End Golf Fitness and Golf Performance for all of its community members…and even a few more notable golfers.  Having developed an original program based on Functional Golf Fitness, called “Gravity Golf” Personal Golf Fitness, our team of Physical Therapists are trained specialists in improving “Body Flaws” that may impede your golf game.  A roster of former patients of OPT and the staff Golf Coordinator, Bert Reid, include Tour players Brad Faxon, Patrick Horgan III of Newport, Club Pro’s Kyle Phelps (RI C.C.), Bill Hafner, Newport CC, Scott Spence (7 Majors played), John Frizzell, (Waunometonomy), Club Champions Bob Savoie (RICC), Charlie Hayes, Newport CC), and scores of other better players as well as High School and College golfers.

Co-Owner and golfer Bert Reid, D.P.T., has developed a Golf-Specific training and testing program that is truly a hybrid of everything that is correct about FUNCTIONAL GOLF FITNESS.  To the golfer, that means you can count on receiving a valid, research-driven and proven method of improving ones flexibility and golf-strength, and a program that will help you understand all of the following:

1.  Exactly what you’ll need to know about why other programs are ‘full of holes” in their approach…and how to choose the right approach for you rather than a cookie-cutter program.

2.  The KEYS to learning about and then choose the Flexibility moves to correct “Body Flaws” which limit your rotation and impede your swing.

3.  Where exactly the POWER comes from in the golf swing…and how to add it into your game if you know the biomechanical advantages.  They’re not secrets…in fact they’ve been with you all the time.

4.  Learn the ONE KEY MOVE to creating POWER and Stability…something Ben Hogan described over 60 years ago…and then asked his caddy not to reveal.

5.  You’ll be able to answer the question to the golf swing anatomy staple…What is the Single Most Important Joint in the BODY to Creating a Solid, Strong Swing?

6.  You’ll learn the keys to creating a simple HOME EXERCISE routine which takes 5 minutes to perform, and consists of about 3 things that will increase flexibility and power for every day use.  Once you know the fundamentals of biomechanics towards Golf Function, you’ll see why the other programs full of pages and pages of exercises are wasteful and poorly thought out.

Bert has his Certification of the TITLEIST PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE’S Medical and Fitness Professional.   He also, more importantly, has completed a 10 month Fellowship with the Gray Institute for Functional Transformation (G.I.F.T.).  Under the tutelage of Dean David Tiberio, PhD., P.T., Bert studied the biomechanics of Sport and of Golf-Specific Flexibility and Strength.   Dr. David Tiberio is regarded nationally as the leading expert in the biomechanics of the Kinetic Chain.  Bert received his Certification in Functional Manual Reaction (FMR), the highest level of Functional Manual Therapy available for Sports Specific Training available.  He was the Captain of the Tulane University Golf Team, ’87, where he was the lead player and an Academic All-American.

Programs of Golf Training Include the purchase of a Certified TPI Testing and Program Development.  The TPI testing is $135, and includes the testing and exercise prescription based upon the TPI program protocols.

Another program is the Hybrid “Gravity Golf” Version.  More in line with the Purely Functional Golf Specific training, it incorporates the “Greatest Hits” of  Golf Function, testing and a personal golf fitness exercise program.  The program is based on the GIFT Fellowship recommendations and the TPI golf protocol for the perfect blend biomechanics, body flaw analysis and Golf-Specific training and conditioning.  The hybrid program is offered for a fee of $150, and subsequent personal training sessions, 1 0n 1 in the office, are available at $70…roughly the cost of general personal training fees.