The TPI Junior Performance Center is an innovative approach toward golf improvement. Based on the principles of Long-Term Athletic Development (LTAD), the TPI JPC uses physical and mental activities that are appropriate to a child’s biological age.

These activities are challenging but rewarding. Young athletes will gain strength, quickness, speed, agility, balance and confidence. Most importantly, they will have a great time doing all of it!

The “FUNdamental Cyclone” and the “S.M.A.S.H Zone” are the program’s core. Athletes will kick, hit, throw, putt, catch and chip. There are wrist release stations, strength building stations and stations where children will begin developing explosiveness. Built into each station are exercises and movements that enable athletes to learn the fundamentals of athleticism and golf. Instructors at the JPC teach young minds and young bodies how to be the best they can be, and we do it in an incredibly fun and engaging atmosphere.

Children participate in a 90-minute session each week. The 90 minutes include a warm-up and cool down, team-building activities and up to 12 stations in the The “FUNdamental Cyclone” or the “S.M.A.S.H Zone.”

Each week’s 90-minute session takes the athletes through exercises and activities that develop and nurture their fundamental movement skills as well as their fundamental sports skills. And during each cycle, the athletes learn and eventually master a different theme, including – grip, alignment, posture and weight shift.

There are four sessions in a cycle. During the fourth session of the cycle, the athletes are taken on the golf course for 90 minutes of on-course playing and instruction. Just like the Cyclone and S.M.A.S.H zones, our on-course instruction is skill appropriate. Some athletes will use drivers, wedges and putters. Some athletes will use tennis rackets, footballs and field hockey sticks. And some will use a combination of both. But all of them will use the skills learned and practiced during the other sessions.

The “FUNdamental Cyclone” is set up for the less experienced children. It focuses on the body’s fundamental movement skills. The S.M.A.S.H Zone – which stands for Stability, Mobility, ABCs (Agility, Balance, Coordination and Speed), Sports skills and Honing golf skills, is set up for the more experience children. The S.M.A.S.H’s focus is developing sports skills, specifically golf skills.