Welcome To "Swing Surgeon Central". The Surge walks you through the new features and valuable resources on the new, improved Peak Performance Golf Swing website and blog
DJ learns a valuable lesson about how "sensitive" your equipment can be during a round...
Don Trahan on the importance of "alignment" in the golf swing. Surgism: "The setup determines the motion".
By the time you read this, you’ll probably know if the Deutsche Bank Championship is going to be played. Hurricane Earl is coming our way. As I write this, however, everything is a go.
We decided to do a little “family” video for you today. The family being DJ, Todd, his caddy, and me. We’re golfers, [...]
The Surge is at the the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC Boston with DJ, doing some touch up. Don ( and DJ) said, at 95, it was hot. Then, of course, there’s Hurricane Earl that may come up the coast. We’re having a little transmission problems but should get you some video of Don [...]
Dr. Rankin and I got to talking about both a quick way to improve your game — plus a better way to enjoy it. He came up with a solution that works for both. It might surprise you.
We were discussing slow play, those days where, at the turn, you’re closing in on three hours. There’s [...]
This is one test you won’t fail … as soon as you do it a few times. It’s going to narrow your shot pattern, and you’re going to get where you want to go much more often.
One of the fundamental in any sport is to know where your target is. In baseball, the shortstop dive [...]
Deciding how hard to go after the ball depends on a number of circumstances. But one of the most fundamental questions you have to ask yourself when considering the shot you want to make is how hard can you hit it without your muscles getting out of dynamic balance.
Say it’s a 150 yard carry over [...]
I keep talking about “heavy right” and get a bucketful of questions about what that means. I figured maybe a little video would help everybody.
I big mistake a lot of golfers make is leaning the upper body to the right but actually putting more weight on the left leg. If you can’t left your left [...]
The longer the driver’s shaft the harder it is to go vertical. That might seem obvious but I see it — or hear about it — every day: “I can’t go to vertical with my driver! I can’t do the Peak Performance Golf Swing wit it.” So I just shorten the length and all of [...]
This is another clip of Matt Steffe of C-prime and the Surge during our shoot at the exclusive Secession Golf Club near Beaufort, South Carolina. Matt, 6′6″, a Californian who played professional basketball in Eastern Europe, was “subjected” to an impromptu lesson from the 5′9″ Surge between takes on a video shoot.
I have known Don [...]
You know how I’m always saying, “Make perfect practice swings” before you hit the ball. Well, that hasn’t changed at all. Feel the swing, then swing the feel. Make a perfect setup. Tone those muscles.
But what I want to make very clear is that the power level you use in your practice swing should only [...]
Secession Golf Club, Beaufort, SC – Between takes during a regular video shoot, we just left the camera rolling as The Surge gave Matt Steffe, of C-prime an impromptu lesson. You’ll hear some other voices and sounds because neither Matt nor Don were miked. But I think you’re going to see (and hear) some good [...]
Wow. What a day. Sorry we’re late.
We were at Secession Golf Club, an ultra private club just outside of Beaufort, SC. We were doing a series of videos which we can’t wait to show you. One of the golfers we were with was Matt Steffe, of C-prime (more about C-prime later).
Anyway, Matt, 6′ 6″, who [...]
A little over a week after meeting Dr. Howard Rankin, a clinical psychologist, the Surge returns to get the results of his “brain scan,” one of the standard tests Dr. Rankin does for his clients, to see how an individual’s brain is operating.
The good news is The Surge’s brain is quite responsive and acting normally. [...]
Readers of this blog and Inner Circle members keep asking about how I choose the right shaft, what goes into it, and what that funky expression in physics, “MOI” or “moment of inertia, has to do with club fitting.
Yet again, the Surge said, “Have at it, Lynn!” So in this video, I think I’ve covered [...]
Over the past few months I’ve had students come to me thinking they were having problems with the limited turn, 3/4 backswing which we teach in the Peak Performance Golf Swing.
Actually, their backswings were pretty good. Yet they weren’t getting the results they wanted. The reason immediately became obvious. It was their forward swing to [...]
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We have a question from the Crazycanuk. So I guess we’re talking to a Canadian. Hopefully we can straighten things out there. The Crazycanuk asks” “Here is a question for golfers like me who write left handed, throw left handed but hit the golf ball [...]
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We have a question from Inner Circle member Gary S. He says, “I have really been trying to learn this swing. It does make me hit the ball straighter and more consistent. The big problem I am having is distance. Before I started using this [...]
We had another request for information come in from one of our PPGS members.
This individual wanted to know about shaft spine alignment and flo-ing
(pure-ing). This is something the we do with every club that we build as we
do think there is a distinct advantage to this practice.
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED SHAFT OPTIMIZATION?
The fact is, no [...]
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We have a question from Inner Circle member Cliff. Cliff says, “In watching the video of your and D.J.’s swings, it appears that your clubface stays ‘looking’ at the ball during most of the takeaway. Is this a good mental picture?”
Cliff, I don’t think it [...]
It’s early Sunday morning in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Surge tales about DJ’s game and the 92nd PGA Championship. The slight change in the arm position in DJ’s setup did make a difference. But the real difference has to come in the short game. Don encourages every Peak Performance Golf Swing player to become a “short [...]
We have 4 different shafts here that we put on the Frequency Analyzer and they were all labeled STIFF. However, the range of frequency went from a low of 251cmps to a high of 267cpms. So, you can already see that just because a shaft has a particular flex nomenclature painted on it, [...]
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