The Purpose Of The SwingForm Trials. 4
The SwingForm Trial Candidate Protocols. 5
The Range Scorecard Scoring System.. 9
The SwingForm Trials – October / November 2022. 10
Total Average Accuracy / Shots-On-Target 11
The Training Time Protocols. 12
Individual Club Accuracy Analysis. 14
2- Phase: Club Accuracy Analysis. 15
3-Phase: Individual Club Analysis. 16
4- Phase: Individual Club Analysis. 17
Average Individual Club Accuracy Across All Phases -Driver 17
Average Individual Club Accuracy Across All Phases – 7 Iron. 18
Average Individual Club Accuracy Across All Trial Phases – Pitching Wedge. 18
Total Average Accuracy Analysis. 18
2-Phase: Average Accuracy / Time. 19
3-Phase Average Accuracy / Time. 19
4-Phase Average Accuracy / Time. 19
Total Swing & Shot Analysis. 20
2-Phase Swing & Shot Analysis. 20
3-Phase Swing & Shot Analysis. 21
4-Phase Swing & Shot Analysis. 21
Total Average Swing & Shot Analysis. 22
Swing & Shot Analysis Conclusion. 22
SwingForm is an evolutionary golf swing method that uses natural and super-efficient golf-swing biomechanics to achieve consistent ball striking and proficient accuracy in direction and distance in significantly less time and effort than any current golf swing training method.
This system has been under development since 2010. After five previous versions of this methodology, it was finally ready to conduct clinical trials countrywide in October – November 2022 to prove the concept’s superior proficiency in terms of time and accuracy.
The protocols for the candidates were as follows:
The trial adverts were placed on local golf groups on Facebook, and 110 applications were received, of which only 22 were approved as the final candidate group as they met all the protocol criteria.
Of the 22 approved, two dropped out, with one candidate not registering for the trials and another not submitting scorecards as per the protocol terms and thus disqualified.
A third candidate suffered a knee injury on a park run and could not complete the Trial. At the same time, another had a medical procedure on his knee and is currently in rehabilitation.
The fifth candidate encountered unexpected business commitments, which precluded him from starting his Trial.
At the time of writing this report, two candidates are currently completing their trials, and two sets of outstanding data have not been included. Still, this report will be updated once the outstanding data is received.
The SwingForm results presented in the report will cover thirteen (13) candidates, with two on the 2-Phase Trial, seven on the 3-Phase Trial, and four on the 4-Phase.
To ascertain the optimum training period, the SwingForm trials offered three phases – the 2-Phase Trial, 3-Phase Trial, and the 4-Phase Trial. Each phase had progressively more home and range training sessions, respectively.
The purpose of using different trial phases was to determine which number of home and exercise sessions provided the optimum results in terms of time, accuracy, and consistency.
Each Trial had a specific number of training sessions divided between home and driving range sessions into phases, with the candidate having to complete each phase within seven days.
The home sessions consisted of the custom-designed swing mechanics component exercises created to develop the candidate’s swing technique that would efficiently enhance and accelerate the SwingForm method’s assimilation.
The second part of the home exercise sessions involved the candidate executing swings using different golf clubs to apply the techniques and methods learned through the exercises before the driving range sessions.
After each repetition of the exercise and the swing, the candidate had to mark it complete on the custom-designed scorecards, which would mimic the process on the golf course and reduce the disparity between practice and play.
The SwingForm training system is specifically designed to deliver a ‘practice as you play and play as you practice’ solution so that golfers moving from practice and training to play have significantly fewer challenges in implementing the swing method on the golf course.
SwingForm focuses on executing high-quality swings and not ‘hitting the ball.’ The home exercise sessions are designed to ‘re-program’ the candidate to a swing-orientated approach and away from a ‘ball-striking’ approach.
To achieve this, there is a higher ratio of home exercise sessions than range sessions, which are limited to 40 shots only, with 10 shots used as a warm-up. Since most driving ranges offer buckets of 50 balls, this format forced the candidate to ‘make every swing count.’
The purpose here is to determine how much accuracy improves relative to how many practice/training swings and actual shots are made in each phase, and this will show the efficiency of the SwingForm biomechanics method and its inherent superiority to the existing swing mechanics paradigm.
The SwingForm method focuses on a process or formula that allows the candidate to create and execute efficient and effective golf swing mechanics, resulting in greater and more consistent accuracy and potentially greater distance.
Each home exercise session consisted of five specific exercises with ten repetitions of each exercise for a total of 50 repetitions. In contrast, the home swing sessions consisted of five golf clubs, each being ‘swung’ 10 times for 50 repetitions.
Thus each home exercise session comprised 100 repetitions split between the exercises and swinging golf clubs.
The driving range sessions consisted of 40 shots only, with ten swings per club. This was created to mimic the number of shots played during a round to ensure that the candidate focussed on making each swing count- as limited swings were available.
This methodology contributes greatly to the on-course mindset and the ‘play as you practice’ system.
At the chosen driving range, the candidates would choose targets at a distance for the clubs being used.
For the driver, the candidate would pick two markers on the range, whether distance markers, flags, or greens, and create a ‘fairway’ that would become the target for the driver.
For the irons, the candidate would either choose a green they could hit with the club used or use the green as a target line if the green was too far or too close to the club being used.
For scoring, the ball would have to either land on the green if the green was at the right distance for the club being used or be online with the green where the green was either too far or too close for the club being used.
To assess the accuracy of both the range session and pre-trial range accuracy, candidates had to score each swing as follows:
For every shot on target, whether at a green or ‘range fairway,’ the candidate would mark this shot as a ‘1’.
For every shot that was left or right of the target, so not on the target green or slightly left or right of the ‘range fairway,’ the candidate would mark this with a ‘2’.
For shots that were way off target – hooked/sliced or hit way right or left, the candidate would mark these as ‘3’.
At the end of the sessions, the score would be added, and a total score would be compiled. With par being 40, the candidate could then see how many shots over par each session was and how much over par each club was.
Over the training period, these scores were the measure of improving accuracy in terms of shots scored as ‘1’ and the number of ‘2’ and ‘3’ shots on each scorecard.
These scores were also used to determine the overall accuracy of each session in percentages on target, off target, and way off the target.
The pre-trial baseline accuracy average for the 2-Phase Trial was 43,33%, while the average accuracy post-trial was 59,17%.
This is an increase in the overall accuracy of 136,52%.
This is the equivalent of 17,33/40 shots on target from the baseline to 23,66/40 shots at the end of the Trial.
This equates to a 6-shot on-target improvement on average.
The pre-trial baseline accuracy average for this phase was 36,11%, and the average accuracy post-trial was 63,65%.
This was also the highest post-trial accuracy average of all three phase trials and is an overall increase in accuracy of 176,31%.
This is the pre-trial equivalent of 14,44 /40 shots on target and post-trial of 25,46/40 shots on target and represents an 11-shot on-target improvement on average.
The pre-trial baseline accuracy average for the 4-Phase Trial was 23,33%, and the post-trial average was 62,57%.
This is an overall increase in accuracy of 269,02 % and represents the highest overall average increase in accuracy of the three phases and is more than DOUBLE the average accuracy increase of the 2-Phase Trial.
This is the pre-trial equivalent of 9,33 /40 shots on target and post-trial of 25,1/40, representing a 16-shot on-target improvement on average.
Total Average Baseline Accuracy – 34,2% or 13/40 on target
Total Average Accuracy Over All Phases – 61,75% or 24/40 on target
Total average increase over all phases – 164,61 % or 11/40 shots improvement.
The SwingForm online training system has proved conclusively that it is efficient and effective in improving the overall consistency and accuracy of the candidates to proficient levels using the existing online video lessons and formats.
A critical aspect of the SwingForm trials was to establish the time taken from the first home session to the final range session and compare that to the progress achieved in accuracy, consistency, and proficiency.
To assess the training time taken, each home and range scorecard had a designated field for time started and time finished so the candidate could record these times.
The start of the training was recorded as the date and time of the first home training session, and the end of the training was either the final range session or the home session, depending on the Phase Trial Itinerary (PTI).
The PTI was designed to create momentum but also allow enough time between each home session and range session for the candidate to absorb and process the new methodology effectively and without undue overload in assimilation.
Once the scorecards were submitted, the times of each session were recorded to provide an accurate duration of each home and range session, respectively.
Those times are the basis for the analysis below.
The total training time was 456 minutes or 7 hours, 36 minutes on average.
Home Training Time: 274 minutes – 4 hours, 33 minutes.
Range Training Time: 183 minutes – 3 hours, 3 minutes.
In this phase trial, the candidates achieved a 59,17% average accuracy from a baseline of 43,33% in a total of 7 hours and 36 minutes of training time on average.
The total training time for the 3-Phase Trial was 556,29 minutes or 9 hours, 16 minutes on average.
Home training time: 313,71 minutes or 5 hours, 14 minutes.
Range training time: 242,57 minutes or 4 hours, 2 minutes.
In this phase trial, the candidates achieved a final average accuracy of 63.65% from a baseline accuracy of 36,11% in a total average training time of 9 hours and 16 minutes.
The total training time for the 4-Phase Trial was 983,67 minutes or 16 hours, 23 minutes on average.
Home training time: 613,67 minutes or 10 hours, 13 minutes.
Range training time: 6 hours 10 minutes.
In this phase trial, the candidates achieved an average accuracy of 62,57% from a baseline average of 23,33% in a total average training time of 16 hours and 23 minutes.
To determine the total time frames involved, we will look at the number of days taken from the start of the first home training session to the final range/training session.
Phase 2: 16 days
Phase 3: 24 days
Phase 4: 28 days
The time frames also demonstrate that the SwingForm online training system is highly effective in improving consistency and accuracy in less than 30 days for the 4-phase system, less than 25 days for the 3-phase system, and less than 20 days for the 2-phase system.
It is conclusive that the SwingForm method creates proficient accuracy and consistency in less than 24 hours of total training.
It is also clear that the 24-hour target time frame to achieve proficient accuracy and consistency in golf swing mechanics can be completed in less than 17 hours for the 4-Phase program, in less than 10 hours for the 3-phase program, and less than 8 hours for the 2-phase program.
It is also clear that the 3- and 4-phase programs deliver a higher average accuracy of around 3,5%. Still, the 3-Phase program provides optimum efficiency with maximum accuracy and significantly lower training time.
Accuracy is 1,08% higher than the 4-phase program, with 43% or 7 hours less training.
The SwingForm trial data lends itself to accurate comparative accuracy of the driver,7-iron, and pitching wedge from the baseline scorecard and the absolute accuracy achieved for each club.
In this section, we will look at the baseline averages for each club and the achieved average accuracy for each trial phase.
Baseline average accuracy: 35% or 14/40 shots on target.
Final Average Accuracy: 53,33% or 21/40 shots on target.
Average increase: 150% or 7/40 shots on target.
In FIR terms, the baseline would be 5 /14 Fairways hit, while the post-trial accuracy would be 7,4 /14 fairways hit.
Baseline average accuracy: 50% or 9/18 greens hit.
Final Average Accuracy: 66,67% or 12/18 greens hit.
Average increase: 133,33 % or 3/18 more greens hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 45% or 8,1/18 greens.
Final Average Accuracy: 56, 67% 10.2/18 greens.
Average accuracy increase: 125,92 % or 2/18 more greens hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 26,67% or 3,7/14 fairways.
Final Average Accuracy: 57,5% or 8/14 fairways.
Average Increase: 216,21 % or 4,3 /14 more fairways hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 45% or 8.1/18 greens.
Final Average Accuracy: 58,75% or 10.6 /18 greens.
Average Increase: 130,86 % or 2,5/18 more greens hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 46, 67% or 8,4 / 18 greens.
Final Average Accuracy: 72,92% or 13,1/18 greens.
Average Increase: 26,25% or 4,7/18 more greens hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 23,33% or 3,2 /14 fairways.
Final Average Accuracy: 42,22% or 5,9 /14 fairways.
Average Increase: 184,37 % or 2,7 /14 more fairways hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy:16,67% or 3 /18 greens
Final Average Accuracy: 42.2% % or 5,9 /18 greens.
Average Increase: 196,67 % or 4,6 /18 more greens hit.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 30 % or 5,4 / 18 greens.
Final Average Accuracy: 63.33 % or 11,4 /18 greens.
Average Increase: 211,11 % or 5,76 /18 more greens hit.
Driver Baseline: 21,1% – 8.4 /40 – 3/14 fairways hit.
Driver Phase: 50,50% – 20.2/40 – 7/14 fairways hit.
Average Increase: 233,33 % – 11,8/40 – 4/14 More fairways hit.
7 Iron Baseline: 37.22% – 14,8 /40 – 6.7 greens hit.
7 Iron Phase: 60.69% – 24.27/40 – 11/18 greens hit.
Average Increase: 164,17 % – 9.4/40 – 4 More greens hit.
PW Baseline: 36.67% – 14,7 /40 – 6 .6 greens hit
PW Phase: 62.53% – 25 /40 – 11,25 greens hit
Average Increase: 156,06 % – 10.3 /40 – 4,6 More greens hit.
The SwingForm method significantly increases all clubs’ overall average and delivers proficient accuracy and consistency, and would greatly increase the number of fairways and greens hit in a round, thus decreasing wasted shots, reducing scores, and increasing scoring opportunities.
This is the final overall accuracy analysis comparing the average pre-trial baseline accuracy across all phases and the final average accuracy once the trials were completed.
Average Overall Baseline Accuracy: 34,26% – 13,7 /40
Overall Phase Accuracy: 58,89% – 23,5 /40
Overall Accuracy Increase: 171,53 % – 9.8 /40
This will determine which phase offers the most efficient combination of home and range training sessions.
The 2-Phase Trial delivered an average final accuracy of 59,17%, with a 136,52 % average improvement over an average total training time of 7 hours, 36 minutes.
The 3-Phase Trial delivered an average final accuracy of 63,655, with an average improvement of 176,31 % in 9 hours and 16 minutes.
The 4-Phase Trial delivered an average final accuracy of 62,57% with an average improvement of 269,02 % in 16 hours and 23 minutes.
This section will analyze the total number of swings made during the home training sessions of the three phases as well as the total number of actual golf balls hit on the range sessions and compare that to the accuracy results achieved.
For the 2-Phase Trial, the total number of swings made in each home session was 300. The six home training sessions only had 50 swings, and this was purposefully designed to focus the graduate on making every swing count.
Across all the phase trials, each home session had only 50 swings, with five different clubs to give the graduate a feel of longer and shorter club swing dynamics.
The range sessions were the same, with only 40 shots per session permitted and recorded on the scorecard. This meant that the 2-Phase Trial only had 120 shots hit on the range and only 300 swings done with the home training sessions.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 43,33% – 17/40 Shots on target
Post-trial Average Accuracy: 59,17% – 23/40 shots on target
Average increase in accuracy: 136,52 % – 6/40 more shots on target
Total swings, including home and range: 420
Total Practice Swings: 300
Total shots hit – range only: 120.
The SwingForm 2-phase trial improved average accuracy by 15,83% in just 120 shots being hit and with 300 practice swings.
The 3-phase Trial had eight home sessions and four range sessions. This meant a total of 400 swings and 160 shots hit on the range.
Baseline Average Accuracy: 36,11% – 14/40 shots on target
Post-trial Average Accuracy: 63,65% – 25/40 shots on target
The average increase in accuracy: 176,31 % – 11/40 more shots on target
Total swings, including home and range: 560
Total Practice Swings: 400
Total shots hit – range only: 160.
The 3-phase Trial improved average accuracy by 176,31 %, with just 160 shots being hit and 400 practice swings.
The 4-phase Trial had ten home sessions and six range sessions. This meant a total of 500 practice swings and 240 shots hit on the range.
Baseline Average Accuracy – 34,2% or 13/40 on target
Post Trial Average Accuracy – 61,75% or 24/40 on target
The average increase in accuracy– 269,02 % or 11/40 more shots on target
Total swings, including home and range: 740
Total Practice Swings: 500
Total shots hit – range only: 240.
The 4-phase Trial improved average accuracy by 269,02 % with only 500 practice swings and 240 total shots hit.
Overall across all phases, the average baseline accuracy was 34,26% or 13/40 shots on target, while the average final accuracy was 61,79% or 24/40 shots on target.
This was achieved with an average of 400 practice swings and 173 shots hit on the range.
The average increase was 187,69% or 11/40 more shots on target.
The data shows conclusively that all the SwingForm phase methods produced improved overall accuracy, with less than 180 actual shots hit and only 400 practice swings. The 3-phase and 4-phase systems showed much higher improvements, with the 4-phase having a 52% % higher accuracy than the 3-phase.
The 3-phase system proved most effective with an improvement of 176,31 % or 11/40 shots more on target with 33% fewer actual shots hit and 25% fewer practice swings made on the home training sessions.
While the overall improvement in the 4-phase Trial is the highest, this Trial took the longest and produced a lower average accuracy than the 3-phase Trial.
By comparison, the 4-phase Trial was 7 hours and 7 minutes longer and achieved an accuracy rate of 1,08% lower than the 3-phase Trial, with the 3-phase Trial achieving this higher result in 43% less time.
The 2-phase Trial was the least efficient, achieving the lowest overall improvement of less than half of the 3-phase and 4-phase trials on average with a 3%-4% lower accuracy average, respectively.
While the time taken was the least at 7 hours, 36 minutes – this is only 1 hour and 40 minutes less than the 3-phase Trial.
The information and data presented here are based on received, signed scorecards from the candidates, and all scores, times, and results can be verified.
Craig Berman
Executive Director
SwingForm
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