Though the heart of the ATGS teaching process remains the personal instruction each student receives from the staff of teaching professionals, the technically advanced equipment used by these instructors to monitor and evaluate results sets American Tour Golf Schools apart from most golf instructional programs. The investment that this high-tech machinery represents demonstrates the commitment ATGS makes to each student, even before the student arrives at the school.

The Swing Solutions® Golf Video Analyzer (GVA) system allows students to view and understand their swing as never before. The GVA uses multiple cameras to capture the entire swing, from body alignment and setup to impact and follow-through. It captures video and still images of the golfer’s particular swing dynamics, allowing immediate visual feedback and faster swing improvements. The use of this high-speed video technology extends the instructor’s ability to teach and the student’s ability to learn.

The Swing Dynamics® Swing Motion Trainer (SMT) is the state-of-the-art swing diagnostics and training system. The trainer integrates motion assessment, digital video and club head location to identify where the body or club is out of position at any point during the swing. The student simply slips on the lightweight sensor vest, takes a stance on the weight shift platform, addresses the ball and swings. Instantly, the instructor has a comprehensive computer and video analysis at his fingertips with all the data necessary to analyze every aspect of a student’s swing faults and strengths.

Using the SMT, the instructor can custom-tailor a series of training sessions for any player, regardless of individual physique, age, or level of play. The SMT incorporates an auditory feedback system that assists the student by emitting a tone when desired body positions are achieved, enabling the student to actually feel changes and commit them to "muscle memory."

All tour departments for major club manufacturers use ball flight analysis technology to enable their professional players to optimize golf club, shaft and ball selection. ATGS has two Ball Flight Monitors—one fixed in place at the school’s indoor hitting facility, and a second portable unit that can be used outdoors at ATGS or at other locations.

The Swing Dynamics Ball Flight Monitor systematically compares shot performance of different clubs and balls, taking the guess work out of choosing which shaft flex, driver loft or golf ball maximizes the student’s performance. The Ball Flight Monitor takes three high-speed photographs of the golf ball after the ball is launched at impact. These images are digitized and precisely measured, providing launch angle and ball spin rate. This data illustrates distance, deviation from center, trajectory, and ball speed, and enables us to determine which shaft and club head, and which ball, optimizes the student’s performance.

Perfect Fit Golf Stixx is the club-fitting division of American Tour Golf Schools, offering students customized club-building and club-fitting. The division is operated by master club-fitter/builder David Ayres.

Using a Launch Monitor, David will precisely evaluate and optimize the performance of a student’s equipment, using essential factors such as launch angle, spin rate, and club/ball speed, in addition to traditional measures such as loft, lie, length, or shaft flex. With this data, David is able to offer customized club-building and club-fitting, ensuring that students' clubs will be built or fitted to launch the ball at the precise angle and with the optimal spin ratio for every club, from the driver to the wedges.

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Similar in theory to the Ball Flight Monitor, the Putting Monitor uses a high-speed camera linked to supporting computerized analysis programs to measure the exact physics of a putt. What is the path of the putter head? Where is the face at impact—open, square or closed? How far does the ball skid before it begins true roll? The answer to each of these questions is critical to achieving the optimal putting stroke. And the Putting Monitor provides exact answers without any guess work.

Putting Monitor