The GolfGym – Joey D Performance Academies
Coach Joey D was on hand to work with Sam under the watchful eye of Butch.
Fredrik Jacobson won his first PGA Tour event at the Travelers. Freddy has really improved in his strength and overall conditioning which was demonstrated at Congressional in the U.S. Open and during his win in Hartford.
Freddy visits the GolfGym Academy regularly while he is at his home in Jupiter, Florida. He works very hard at keeping as golf fit as possible. Coach Joey D puts Freddy through a biomechanically sound set of exercises to get his body in top physical shape. The average person doesn’t really understand how dedicated many of the PGA Tour players are to their conditioning and fitness. Most of the players on the PGA Tour have realized that staying fit and doing regular golf specific exercise is the key to injury free longevity on the Tour. Here is an exercise that is working on rotation using the PowerBandz affixed firmly at a high level on the wall. No, Freddy is not left handed, but Joey always has his athletes perform exercises on both sides of the body. As he always says, “What you to on the left side, you have to do on the right side”. The start position is at the midway point of the downswing just before impact.
The movement pattern brings the hands to the impact position under resistance. This helps to strengthen the muscles involved in the rotation of the upper body, but also helps to strengthen the hands and arms to work in unison while rotating.
Joey is pointing at Freddy’s shoulder to help him get to full rotation and lift. Strengthening your back and shoulders and core will give you better overall control and help you stay injury free in the long run.
Finished!!
Here is Freddy with Ken Pierce and Coach Joey D looking very happy that his conditioning session is over for today. We are also laughing because Ken told Freddy that his shirt was too short….and Freddy told Ken that his pants were too high.
2010 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship Senior Division.
He set the World Record in that Division with an impressive 405 yard drive.
but you can watch it now on ESPN3 online.
Click this link RE/MAX and you can watch the entire event but, to see George’s 405 yard drive
fast forward (move the white bar below the screen) to the 1 hour mark.
For more information on the Academy or to schedule an assessment, call Vicki Pierce at 1-877-4-GOLFGYM (1-877-446-5349).
which was aired on NBC Channel 5 along with ESPN 760 on
June 2nd. It gives a brief but very good overview of the new facility
and what we do here.
You have probably seen Joey D on TV demonstrating the proper swing patterns and body movements necessary to generate the most powerful swing possible while preventing injury.
Age: 44
Philosophy: He has trained some of the most physically fit players using the applied science of biomechanics, which teaches players how to become efficient and strong.
Quoted in GolfWeek Magazine: ”Working out is one component of a complete program. We take these guys out of balance and put them back in balance. It’s not like they are going in and doing a bench press. It’s not even on the same planet.”
In the Beginning
Joey was an accomplished athlete at a very young age. His passion and dedication to perfomance was exceptional. At an early age he discovered that the more attention he gave to his body, the more it responded.
He has taken that same passion for developing his body and sports performance to the golfers with whom he worked on the PGA Tour.
He has educated himself on the movement of the body and how to maximize your individual performance no matter what sport you are playing.
Joey’s story of incredible courage in the face of life threatening cancer contracted at the age of 20 was detailed in an eight page feature article in Muscle Magazine. Conquering cancer at that young age gives Joey D a sincere appreciation for life. His passion regarding the importance of maintaining good health through exercise, meditation, nutrition and a positive mental attitude can not be understated. Yet, he tells his friends that he is not the “food or exercise police”. His extensive training in several disciplines in the martial arts adds another dimension to his overall appreciation for life. He brings all his passion and discipline to his teaching and coaching techniques.
He has often said, “After you are told you only have a few months to live, and you survive that, nothing is impossible”.
Vijay won over 10 million dollars
on the Tour that year.
While working with his players during the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, Joey, along with five other coaches on the PGA Tour, were highlighted in an article in GolfWeek magazine.
“Fix Your Body, Fix Your Swing”
The first time I met Vijay Singh, he insulted me. I instantly liked him.
This was back in 2001. He’d heard some good things about me and thought maybe something about this unorthodox golf coach with some un¬orthodox training methods could help him take his game to the next level. Vijay and I worked together for a few months, and in March 2002 he notched his first tour victory in almost two years by winning the Shell Houston Open by a comfortable six strokes.
He invited me to fly back to Ponte Vedra, Florida, with him on his plane.
“What would it take to get you to work with me exclusively?” he asked me. Before I could even start to consider the offer, he added, “I know I can be the best player in the world.”
In 2002, everyone just assumed that Tiger Woods was invincible and would be number one in the world for as long as the sport of golf interested him. Vijay Singh was a PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 1993, but had man¬aged just a single tour win since 2000. Here he was, though, telling me that he thought he could be number one. Most people would have laughed at his pre¬diction, but I knew how hard a worker he was. In the time I had been with him, he’d just about kill himself whenever we worked out. I respected his work ethic im mensely, but I also knew that trying to overtake Tiger would be going up against some stiff odds. I knew something about facing insurmountable odds, though.
I sold my training facility in south Florida and moved north to Ponte Vedra. In September 2004, Vijay outshot Tiger Woods and Adam Scott by three strokes to win the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Massachusetts. As a result, he leapfrogged over Tiger and into the number one spot in the world. Thanks to hard work and a team of dedicated and knowledgeable pro¬fessionals, Vijay had made good on his prediction. In April 2005, when he was elected into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Vijay thanked several people in his acceptance speech. I was one of them. I sometimes wonder what it was that made me uproot my life to go work with him, and I always come back to what he said to me on that flight from Texas: “I know I can be the best player in the world.”
Something about his confidence and determination reminded me of someone.
