Jack Gibson

Jack Gibson had been in the golf business for over thirty years when he moved to Los Cabos, Mexico to be the Director of Instruction at Cabo del Sol. It was here that he discovered that the old "body-focused" instruction he had been using his entire teaching career just didn't get results for tourists in town for only a few days. There wasn't time for them to work on those memorized body and golf club positions he had always thought were necessary to have an efficient golf swing. Jack soon...See more

Jack Gibson had been in the golf business for over thirty years when he moved to Los Cabos, Mexico to be the Director of Instruction at Cabo del Sol. It was here that he discovered that the old "body-focused" instruction he had been using his entire teaching career just didn't get results for tourists in town for only a few days. There wasn't time for them to work on those memorized body and golf club positions he had always thought were necessary to have an efficient golf swing. Jack soon began to have his students work more on rhythm, balance, reduction of tension and trying to feel where their golf club was during their golf swing. Results were immediate and to his amazement many of his students began to develop good golf swings after one or two lessons. Upon returning to the United States in 2005 to be the Director of Instruction at La Quinta Country Club in California, Jack read "Swing the Clubhead" by Earnest Jones and found that he was using many of the same words and phrases Jones had used ninety years ago. Jack also read Manuel de la Torre's book "Understanding the Golf Swing" and realized he had switched from "body-focused" teaching to "club-focused" teaching in Mexico without even knowing it. Since returning to California Jack has continued to successfully develop his own teaching philosophy based on using less conscious thought and helping his students train their bodies to react to the swinging motion of the golf club. He has finally been able to put those ideas in a readable form in his book Thought Reduction Golf" using the same words he uses when teaching. See less