What is Jim Hardy Golf?

First, let’s examine the man himself. Following his college graduation in 1966 from Oklahoma State, Jim Hardy launched his professional golf career. He passed the PGA Tour Q-School in 1968 and went to play full time on the Tour until 1974. From there, he went on to several different golf professorial positions, eventually leaving to form his own instructional golf schools in 1979. By this point, Jim Hardy was a consummate student of the game, and, as everyone knows, before you become a qualified teacher you must prove yourself as an able, eager student. Jim’s experience as a teacher and student have proven this in spades.

Jim Hardy has taken that experience and put it to good use. His close observation of golfers’ swings gave him the insight to make a stunning, revolutionary conclusion: there exist two significantly different fundamentals that govern the golf swing. Before Jim Hardy, most people assumed that the golf swing followed one basic fundamental – the plane swing. But Jim Hardy spoke of there being two significant differences in many swings. Some, he argued, moved the arms and shoulders on different planes of motion. That is, the arms, shoulders, and body all attempted to move on different planes only to arrive at the same destination. Jim distinguished that from the one plane swing, which is described as the harmonious swing in which arms and shoulders rotate on the same plane of motion. In the one plane swing, the body generates most of the power.

Jim Hardy Golf, therefore, is cerebral golf. It is golf that takes into account the fact that there are many forces at work in any golf swing. Without recognizing that golf is a thinking man’s game, and without actively positioning your body correctly to maximize power on a swing, you are selling yourself – and your swing – short. Jim Hardy Golf is the culmination of a lifelong study of the game. It is golf that thinks.