Congratulations to 13 year old Virginia Green for her outstanding play in the Alabama High School Athletic Association State Golf Championship. Her 6th place finish included the lowest round of day two, a 75 on the tough Grand National Links course on the Robert Trent Jones Trail. Her final nine score of 37 included 3 birdies and bested the soon to be Arizona Wildcat, Senior Janie Jackson by two shots in the final round. Her amazing preparation for this event began with specific training from our team at Fit 360 in December of 2011. Doug, Dana, Brandon and the rest of the team at Fit 360 are providing a foundation for Virginia that has taken her game to the next level.

Photo credit: Press Register/Robert Ladnier

We were proud to have legendary strength & conditioning coach Al Vermeil & his wife Diane come back to see Ron for instruction and of course to play some golf.

Al took some time Tuesday night to visit our team at Fit360 and to evaluate and train AJGA player, Alex Green.

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Kenny’s record setting 20 under par total was 5 shots clear of the field and puts him in a great position for a run to the Charles Schwab Cup. Kenny has scheduled a mix of PGA Tour events and Champions Tour Events for 2012. With his improved equipment and recharged golf swing, he certainly is primed for multiple wins this year.

After opening with rounds of 64 and 62 to break the tour’s 36-hole record at 18-under 126, Perry closed with a 2-under 70 on The TwinEagles Club’s Talon Course to beat 2011 winner Bernard Langer by five strokes.

Perry tied Allen Doyle’s 1999 tournament mark for the largest margin of victory.

Perry had 24 birdies, two short of the tour record for a 54-hole event. The bogey on the final hole dropped Perry into a tie with Langer for the tournament scoring record that Langer set last year at The Quarry.

We are so happy for Kenny, his wife Sandy and the Perry family!

Photo By: Carl Smith – Waves Assistant Coach

Congratulations to Parker Page on winning the Folino Men’s Invitational at the Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms. Parker wins on the very difficult 7,221 yards long Eisenhower course.  A great win on a great course! 

The Pepperdine University Waves finished second and are off to a great start to the season.

Way to go Parker!

Ron Gring shows you two ways to increase your club head speed and distance off the tee,  just by changing the timing of your transition and weight shift in the downswing . Use these tips with a couple buckets of balls and you’re sure to get the feel of what it is like to increase distance and power with your driver. (Video courtesy of Golf.com)

Now that we are no longer on Daylight Savings Time, with school and weekend football, it is really tough for Juniors to get in enough time on the practice tee and on the course. That is why the best Juniors in the world use the fall and winter season to workout and to work on their games.

No matter how talented, a golfer’s swing can only be as powerful and precise as that individual’s Golf Fitness will allow it to be, so doesn’t it make sense to spend some focused time in the gym making sure your Fitness level is at its best?
That is why we are inviting you to the presentation of our Winter Junior Golf Program with our partners with Doug and Dana Proctor, the owners of Fit 360 Personal Training and Sports Performance. Doug, Dana and their team of trainers are considered the best fitness trainers in the region and are TPI Certified Golf Fitness Trainers.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm to meet Doug, Dana and their fitness team, tour their great facility and talk with us about your Junior Golfer’s Individual Golf Fitness program!

LOCATION: FIT 360 at Bayside Orthopaedic Sports Medicine and Rehab Center,
341 Greeno Road (Hwy 98) Suite A, Fairhope, Alabama

RSVP: Yvette (ygring@gmail.com)
251-626-1265 or Dana (getfit360@gmail.com) 251-463-6646 Space is Limited…Call Today!

MEET & GREET: 6:30pm
PRESENTATION: 7:00-8:00pm
Q&A: 8:00-?

We look forward to seeing you!
Ron & Yvette, Doug & Dana

Also, great playing Elaine Wood for taking 2nd place (F15-19) and John Racciatti, Jr. for taking 2nd place (M 12-13)!

We enjoyed cheering and supporting our juniors over the weekend! We are very proud of all of them!

Coach Gring
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The TourSPX Lab is only the first phase of the concept. This summer, UST Mamiya rolled out a Certification and Competitive Analysis platform to facilitate development of a qualified TourSPX Dealer network. An in-house, Swing-Fit® Studio will soon follow along with the launch of a comprehensive Custom Shop to produce handcrafted, one-off, made-to-spec shafts exclusively for Tour players.

Every shaft submitted for use on the PGA Tour is TOURSPX Certified. After tour demands are fulfilled, TOURSPX shafts will be available for purchase through our exclusive TOURSPX Certified Dealer Network.

Find a TOURSPX Certified Dealer.   Each TOURSPX certified shaft is qualified after thorough testing and must meet or exceed demanding test criteria. After measuring and recording each of the data points, our technicians permanently laser etch each TOURSPX shaft with a unique serial number.

This serial number can be used to reference the detailed specifications of that shaft at any time allowing players to replicate their high performance shaft at any time.

Click here if you have purchased a TOURSPX shaft and want to obtain the specs.

A few of our clients who have switched to the TourSPX shaft, including myself are:

Alex Anderson, Al Vermiel & Diane Vermiel, Jim Martin, Jordin Corchis, John Marchese, Michael Wilkenson, David Stinson, Austin Taylor and Mac Duke.
 

Schedule a Driver, Fairway or Hybrid fitting today and improve your distance and accuracy!

In 2003, 2005 and 2007 Kenny and I worked together to get him to a level of performance that he had previously never experienced. In 2003, the goal was to be the winner of multiple PGA Tour events. In 2005, his goal was to make the Presidents Cup team. In 2007, the goal was to not only make the 2008 Ryder Cup team at Valhalla, but to win back the Ryder Cup and to be the best player on the team. Each campaign proved to be better than he ever imagined.

Kenny came for visit to the Magnolia Grove Golf Course on the Robert Trent Jones Trail this past Monday and Tuesday, March 28th and 29th, working on being a better player than he was in each of previous season. That is a place very few players in the history of the game have ever been. First, we worked on his full swing comparing his swing now to some video I took of him in August of 2003 when he was easily the best ball striker in the world. In 2011 at 50, he is healthy, strong and still compresses the ball like only a very few players can. For example, on number 18 of the Falls Course at Magnolia Grove, Kenny had 232 yards for his second shot. Since the hole measures 552 yards, his tee shot was an impressive 320 yards. The interesting thing is, the tee shot is slightly uphill and the fairway was wet! On the front nine of the Falls Course we worked on his putting for quite a long time Tuesday afternoon and on his chipping and pitching (40-60yard shots).

The changes in his technique with the short game showed some very impressive results immediately and it will make him much more consistent over time. With his putting, a change in elbow location made the quality of the roll and centered contact near perfect. Even though the changes in his putting felt strange, as soon as he looked at the stroke in slow motion he said, “I look like I did when I was putting my best in 2008!”. It was a great start. The next 4-6 weeks are the real test. Steady progress not instant perfection would be the best outcome.  His job is to practice in such a way that makes all of the instruction unconscious and be able to focus only on on his targets and NOT on his swing technique.

It is so interesting for me as his instructor, because I really do not have to teach him a “new move”. Instead, I simply have to assist him in repeating what he has done in the past when he was at his best. Kenny remains fully exempt on the PGA Tour through 2014 and he is eligible to play full time on the Champions Tour.

- Ron Gring

Now located at the Magnolia Grove Golf Course in Mobile, as part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Gring Golf Performance has made itself available to accommodate an even broader spectrum of players.

The new location really sparked the need to improve our identity. The NEW Gring Golf Performance exudes confidence. Confidence in our ability to train, our ability to grow and in providing our clients, new and returning, the credibility of a high-class organization. After teaming up with PacSync, a Daphne, Alabama based design and marketing firm, Gring Golf Performance will never be the same moving forward. Our new website has a lot to offer our patrons, from Tips of the Week to an Online Store filled with Gring Golf Performance apparel, accessories and teaching aids. Our Blog will be routinely updated with tips, articles and various messages from Ron Gring that will keep everyone informed of new ways to improve your game.

Check back soon for updates and remember – “There is no THE way. Only YOUR way.” – Ron Gring