Golf

TPI Golf Assessment in Speonk, NY

The Titleist Performance Institute 16-movement screen. An objective physical map of what your body can and cannot do inside a golf swing, and the entry point to everything else we do for golfers.

What the Screen Is

Before anyone changes your swing, find out what your body is allowed to do.

Your swing is limited by your body before it is limited by your technique. If your hips cannot separate from your shoulders, you cannot make the turn your coach is asking for, no matter how many lessons you take. You will find another way to do it, which is what a swing fault actually is: a physical limitation with a workaround built on top of it.

The TPI screen is the Titleist Performance Institute’s way of finding those limitations. It is 16 golf-specific movements, tested one at a time and graded on a traffic-light system, that assess mobility, stability and strength through the whole chain from your ankles to your shoulders. It includes the relationship between hip and shoulder rotation, the separation golfers call the X-factor, which is where a large share of both power and back pain comes from.

Seth Greiner, PT, MSPT is TPI certified and runs the screen. This is the entry point to our golf work: what it finds determines whether you belong in golf performance, in golf rehab, or in an ongoing training block. It is also useful on its own, and plenty of golfers take their results back to their coach and go no further.

TPI Golf Assessment at Greiner Physical Therapy

Who It Helps

Who should get screened.

Any golfer, any handicap. These are the reasons people book it.

Inconsistent ball striking

The move works on Tuesday and vanishes on Saturday. Usually a mobility or stability limit that shows up under speed.

Distance that has gone

Nothing hurts, the ball just goes shorter. The screen tells you which physical quality left.

Lessons that will not stick

Your coach keeps asking for the same correction. The screen shows whether your body can physically make it.

Nagging golf aches

Low back, lead shoulder, elbow. Catching the limitation behind it before it becomes an injury is the cheapest version of this.

Former athletes

You played at a high level, something got stiff along the way, and you want to know what specifically.

Anyone starting a program

Before you spend a winter training, find out what to train. A screen is the difference between a plan and a guess.

How It Works

What happens in the screen.

Four steps, and you leave with the results in hand.

Your golf and your history

What you shoot, how often you play, what your coach is working on, where the ball goes when it goes wrong, and every injury or surgery your body has been through. Context changes how a red result gets interpreted.

The 16-movement screen

Sixteen golf-specific movements, one at a time: rotation, separation, stability, single-leg control, overhead and shoulder range, and the way your ankles, hips, spine and shoulders share the work. Nothing about it requires you to hit a ball.

Green, yellow, red

Each movement gets a grade. Green means it is available. Yellow means it is limited or compensated. Red means it is unavailable, or it hurts. Reds and yellows are where your swing is losing power or borrowing range from somewhere it should not.

What it means and what to do

We connect each finding to a swing characteristic: early extension, loss of posture, coming over the top. Then you get your plan, whether that is corrective exercise here, a full performance block, treatment for something that hurts, or a printout to take to your golf professional.

What You Get

What you walk out with.

A screen is only worth doing if you leave with something concrete.

Sixteen graded results

Every movement scored green, yellow or red, so you know exactly where your body is limited.

Your rotation picture

Hip and shoulder separation measured, because that relationship drives both clubhead speed and low back load.

Findings tied to swing faults

Each limitation connected to the swing characteristic it produces, instead of a list of numbers with no meaning.

A corrective plan

The specific exercises for your reds and yellows, delivered as video in our home-exercise app.

A recommendation

An honest answer about whether you need performance training, treatment, or nothing more than the plan you just got.

Something to give your coach

Your results in a form your golf professional can actually use, so their plan and ours agree.

Common Questions

Questions about tpi golf assessment.

01 / Is the screen 12, 15 or 16 movements?

Sixteen. We run the TPI 16-movement screen, and you can see the grade for every one of them. If you have read a different number somewhere, that was our old website being inconsistent with itself.

02 / Do I need a referral, and is it covered by insurance?

A screen is an assessment, not a course of treatment, so no referral is involved. If it turns up something that needs treating, that is physical therapy: in New York you can see a licensed physical therapist without a doctor’s referral for up to 30 days or 10 visits, whichever comes first, we are in network with Medicare and Medicare Advantage, and out of network with most other plans, and we submit claims on your behalf. Medicaid is not accepted.

03 / Do I need to bring clubs, or hit balls?

Not for the screen itself. It is a physical assessment done on the floor and on a mat, in athletic clothes. If you want ball flight and swing data too, that lives in golf performance, which adds a launch monitor and video capture.

04 / What if the screen finds something painful?

That is useful, not a failure. A red result that hurts means we treat it before we train it, which is golf rehab. Finding it in a screen in April is considerably better than finding it on the tenth hole in July.

Patient Story

What our patients say.

"Greiner Physical Therapy delivers an exceptional level of care that truly sets them apart."

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No referral needed in New York. Same-week appointments available at both locations.

Your first visit is a full one-on-one evaluation with a licensed physical therapist: come in, tell us everything, and leave with a plan.

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