The UGP Philosophy: How We Build Better Golfers
At Urban Golf Performance, our work begins long before the first swing is taken. The golf assessment is the foundation of everything we do. It sets the stage for long term improvement, builds clarity for the golfer, and creates a roadmap that connects coaching, fitness, recovery, and club fitting into one complete system.
Golfers come in with different movement patterns, physical limitations, and experiences. The golf assessment allows us to understand the entire picture. Instead of guessing, we measure. Instead of giving quick swing tips, we establish a long term plan based on data and elite coaching insight.
This philosophy separates UGP from traditional golf institutions. It's not about fixing a swing in isolation. It's about understanding the body behind the swing.
A Modern Approach to Golf Performance
Most golfers try to fix their swing before understanding their body. They look for quick tips, new feels, or technical adjustments without knowing whether their movement patterns can actually support those changes. This creates frustration, inconsistency, and long term plateaus.
UGP takes a different approach. We believe that improvement starts with clarity, not guesswork. The golf assessment allows us to understand the entire golfer, not just the swing itself. Your mobility, stability, posture, balance, and speed capabilities all influence how you move the club. When we measure these elements up front, everything that follows becomes intentional.
Our philosophy is simple. Before changing movement, we understand movement. Before giving instruction, we understand capability. Before setting goals, we understand the starting point.
During the golf assessment, the coach and golfer walk through a complete movement and swing analysis that highlights strengths, limitations, and opportunities for growth. These insights connect directly to real performance on the course. When you see why your body creates certain patterns, you gain clarity on why your swing behaves a certain way.
You leave the session knowing exactly what holds back your game, what is possible for your body, and what steps will move you forward. It is the first step in building a long term performance plan that is tailored to you, grounded in data, and aligned with the way modern golfers train today.
What We evaluate
Our golf assessment covers three major areas:
1. Functional Movement
We run the athlete through key screens that uncover how the body creates or restricts rotation, speed, and stability. This includes segments like:
• Thoracic rotation
• Hip internal rotation
• Shoulder mobility
• Deep squat ability
• Single leg balance
• Posterior chain function
• X-factor rotation
These insights explain why certain swing tendencies appear. For example, poor hip rotation often leads to early extension, loss of power, or inconsistent contact. Limited thoracic mobility can create an over the top pattern. When the body struggles to rotate, the swing finds a workaround that often becomes a long term flaw.
2. Swing Mechanics
We record and analyze your swing from multiple angles, focusing on key positions including setup, takeaway, impact, and follow through. This is not a comparison to a perfect model. It’s a comparison to your body’s capabilities.
If your body can move in a way that supports a higher performance pattern, we will coach you toward it. If your body currently cannot produce a certain motion, we work on improving the movement capacity first.
Our recovery specialists are involved heavily throughout this process. We evaluate the body from head to toe, looking for past injuries, stiffness, mobility restrictions, stability asymmetries, or areas that may trigger pain. These insights help the coaching team know what is possible right now and what needs to be addressed to support long term improvement.
3. Speed & Power
We use data to measure club speed, ball speed, ground force production, and power output. These numbers guide your training plan. If your swing is mechanically sound but speed is low, we address physical limitations and power development. If you create plenty of speed but struggle with control, we look deeper at movement efficiency.
Fitness training is not only about swinging harder. It’s about training the body to apply force at the right time with stability and precision. By blending power development with technical refinement, we build speed that is controllable, sustainable, and matched to your physical abilities.
A System That Works Together
UGP was built on the idea that golf improvement comes from an integrated system. Coaching, fitness, recovery, and club fitting are connected. The golf assessment is the key that ties it all together.
If your hips don’t rotate, fitness solves the limitation.
If your swing path needs refinement, coaching creates the pattern.
If your body feels tight, recovery helps you move better and stay consistent.
If your equipment doesn’t match how your body moves, fitting closes the gap.
Every department works in sync with the blueprint created during your golf assessment.
Your Journey Begins With Clarity
Golfers improve when they have clarity. The golf assessment gives you complete understanding of your body, your swing, and your potential. It eliminates confusion and builds confidence. It helps you step into a high performance identity backed by data and guided by world class coaching.
At UGP, improvement is not a guess. It’s a plan. Your golf assessment is the first step in that journey.