History of RotarySwing

Published: March 3, 2026

One of the most common questions I get asked is: how did I develop RotarySwing? How did I come up with these ideas to put the golf swing together in such a unique way that hadn't been done before? I'm going to cover all of that in this video. And a lot of the answers are probably going to surprise you, because it didn't come about the way most people assume. So the first thing I want to talk about is what really started me down this path — and that is, I was extremely frustrated with my golf game. You can probably relate to that, right? Because here you are on the internet, watching another golf instruction video, trying to figure out how to hit that little ball with a stick and get it to go where you want it every single time. It can be absolutely infuriating.

And that's exactly where I was. When I moved to Colorado on a golf scholarship at an NCAA school, I was promised the world by my golf coach. In the end, I left even more frustrated. He promised he'd connect us with the best instructors and help us with our swings. I grew up dirt poor, playing at a golf course where it cost $4.35 to play as many holes as you wanted — shoes and shirts optional. I'd stay up there every single day during summer, playing 45 holes a day, slicing it off the planet, trying to hook one, going through all the typical things you do as a kid teaching yourself. I couldn't afford golf lessons. So when I moved there on a golf scholarship, my entire goal was simple: get good.

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I wanted to play on the professional tour, just like everybody else dreams about. I imagined winning the green jacket, sinking a putt to win a major — all those things we all dream about. But what happened when I got there was I got my first real taste of golf instruction. And the problem was that every instructor the coach brought in told us something completely different. In fact, most of the time it was the exact opposite of what the instructor the week before had told us. So how do you discern between what's right and what's wrong? If this guy tells me to hold the club one way, and the next guy tells me to do it completely differently — how am I supposed to know which is correct? I was so confused I didn't know which way was up.

My next goal: when I graduated and turned pro, I was going to find a real answer. So I started flying back and forth from Colorado to Florida to find a serious golf instructor. I sought out many of the top-name instructors you've no doubt seen on TV or the Golf Channel — guys who had taught major champions, guys who were featured in every major golf publication. I was very serious about my game. I was spending significant money flying across the country multiple times a month, taking time off work, doing everything I could to track down someone who could help me understand the golf swing at a deep enough level to actually improve. I was interviewing instructors, watching them teach, studying what they said and how they said it, trying to find someone who could actually help me achieve my goals.

Part of my interview process was this: if you're going to teach me — and I was around a two handicap at the time — you need to be able to demonstrate what you're teaching. I insisted that every instructor I interviewed go out and play a round of golf with me. I wanted to look at my game, but I also wanted to see what they could do. Were they a good player? Did they understand the game at a high level? Were they better than me? I had a hard time believing someone who can't break 90 was going to meaningfully improve my golf swing mechanics.

Not a single top-name instructor took me up on it. Not one. These were names you'd recognize immediately — big personalities, famous clients, magazine covers. Not one of them was willing to go pick up a club and play a round with a student they were trying to impress. Except for one guy. He was a lower-profile instructor who worked under a very well-known coach with a lot of major champions to his name. He was the only one who said, "Yeah, I'll go play with you." Completely nonchalant, didn't care at all. Just matter-of-fact about it. So we went out on a cold, windy January day in Florida. I played my absolute best — shot around even par, maybe one or two over. He throttled me. Shot a 67 and made it look completely effortless, like he was barely trying. I said, "This is my guy." He could do what I wanted to be able to do — hit the ball far with minimal effort, pure ball striking, total control over his shot shape. So I hired him, and that's how I got my first real look at what elite-level instruction could be.

Through him, I got access to a higher level of instruction — the kind being given to tour players at the time, working with guys who were competing at the highest level of the game. And I was soaking all of it in. But here's what I found. I had a very specific question about my ball flight: why is this happening? My misses were doing a certain thing, and I needed to understand the root cause. The answer I got was essentially: sit here for the next six hours in the Florida sun and just drill this one move, back and forth. Okay. Fine. I'll do it all day. I believe in you. I've put my trust, my money, and my faith in you. I've flown across the country for this. Just tell me exactly why you want me to do it that way — and I'll work till my hands are bleeding. I'm not afraid of the work. But I need to understand the "why." Give me the cause-and-effect explanation, and I'll commit completely.

And nobody could give me that answer. How is this drill going to fix my ball flight? What's the connection? And how do I actually perform the move correctly — do I shift first, bend my arm, roll my wrist, turn my body? What exactly is the sequence? Nobody could tell me. So I went from frustrated to even more frustrated. Because here was a great ball striker, an elite golfer, a genuinely impressive player — but as far as teaching goes, he couldn't explain what he was teaching or why. He had no cause-and-effect understanding of the golf swing mechanics. It was just stuff he'd found that worked in his own game through years of trial and error. But his swing looked completely different from mine — different body type, different tendencies, different miss patterns. So why would something that worked for him automatically apply to me? We're hitting a ball with a stick — there have to be universal swing fundamentals rooted in physics and anatomy that apply to every golfer, regardless of body type or athletic background.

I went from instructor to instructor after that, and they all gave me the same kind of answer: "Well, just do it this way because that's what the top players do." What does that even mean? Just because an elite player does something doesn't mean that's what's causing their results — and it certainly doesn't mean that copying that exact move will produce the same results in a different person with a different body. That's just copying surface-level appearances without understanding the underlying reason. I could not get a simple answer to simple questions. You should absolutely be able to ask your golf instructor "Why do you want me to do it that way?" and receive a real, logical, verifiable answer. We're not performing brain surgery here. This is hitting a ball with a stick, and there are laws of physics, biomechanics, and anatomy that govern how it works — the same laws that apply to every other sport and every other athletic movement. Everything should be explainable. Everything should make logical sense. If an instructor can't explain why they want you to do something, they probably don't understand it themselves.

To build real golf swing fundamentals, you have to start by defining requirements. What are you actually trying to accomplish with each specific component of the swing? What does success look like for that piece? And is there a logical reason — grounded in physics, anatomy, or biomechanics — why you'd want to do it one way versus another? Take stance width, for example — one of the most commonly misunderstood concepts in golf instruction. Everyone says your stance should be shoulder-width. But your legs are attached to your pelvis, not your shoulders. Some people have very broad shoulders and narrow hips. Some people have wide hips and narrow shoulders. Some people are tall with long legs, others short with a wide base. How can "shoulder-width" be a universal fundamental when the relationship between those measurements varies so dramatically from person to person? It's not a fundamental at all — it's a rough approximation that somebody said, other people repeated, and it became accepted wisdom without anyone asking whether it was actually correct.

So I decided to throw out everything I'd been told and look at the swing completely objectively. I said: I don't believe anything any of you are telling me, because you're all saying something different — so you can't all be right. I'm going to take a step back, take a 30,000-foot view, and just ask: what are we actually trying to accomplish? That's where RotarySwing began. With stance width, for example — what are we trying to do? I want a wide enough stance that I'm stable and can generate power without falling over. That's an agreed-upon requirement. But I also need to be able to transfer my weight back and forth without my head moving all over the place — because if my head is moving, my eyes are moving, and that disrupts vestibular processing and proprioception. Golf is hard enough without unnecessary head movement. So if I need weight transfer for power, but I also need a stable enough stance that my head stays quiet — those two requirements together establish a logical, defensible fundamental. That's why RotarySwing teaches two inches outside of neutral joint alignment for foot placement. Wide enough for balance, narrow enough for a full weight shift. It makes perfect sense, and once someone explains it to you that way, you can apply it consistently every single time.

Every single part of RotarySwing was developed through that same process — takeaway, grip, posture, pivot, weight transfer, release, everything. All of it is grounded in biomechanics, physics, and anatomy, examined through a requirements-based lens: what are we trying to accomplish with this part of the swing, and what is the most efficient, safest, most repeatable way to do it? That process led to a completely different framework for understanding the golf swing — one that looks very different from what you'd hear from most traditional instructors, but that holds up to logical scrutiny at every step. And then there's another entire dimension of what we call the neuro-mechanics of learning — how your brain actually builds and encodes new movement patterns. Knowing the right thing to do is only half the equation. Understanding how to ingrain it efficiently is the other half, and it's just as important. That's what the rotaryswing.com online learning system is designed around: walking you step by step through how to learn the golf swing in a way your brain can actually absorb and retain over the long term. If you want to see how these mechanics show up in your own swing right now, tools like the AI swing analyzer can give you an objective, data-backed look at exactly where your swing stands against the same biomechanical benchmarks RotarySwing is built on.

So, long story short — you can probably relate to the whole story. Extremely frustrated with my game. Went through the full gamut of lessons from top instructors. Got even more frustrated because no one could explain the "why." And finally said: I'm going to step back, look at this objectively, establish requirements, and build a system from the ground up. That is what RotarySwing is all about — logical, biomechanics-based golf instruction with a clear reason behind every single thing we teach. Want to experience what that kind of structured, progressive learning actually feels like in practice? The GOAT Drill system is built on these exact principles — designed to give you real-time feedback on the movements that matter most. That's how RotarySwing was built, and that's what makes it different from every other golf instruction system out there.

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