Jack Kuykendall, Golf Professional
Jack Kuykendall Golf Schools - Tempe, Arizona

Educated in physics, but always wanting a second vocation of being a professional golfer. But Jack Kuykendall had a problem, he had a 12 handicap. Tour professionals shoot scores in the 60's and low 70's.

You can't pick up a golf magazine that doesn't promise a better game through some instructional tip or equipment change. He had no reason to believe that both the clubs and swing methods had not been optimized. In 1984, at age 44, Jack decided he was going to see if he could lower his handicap to where he could play the Senior Tour when he reached 50. Jack had 6 years to get rid of 12 strokes a round.

Here he made four assumptions that he felt were logical. If he had practice time, playing time, lessons and correct equipment he could reach his potential. For two years, averaging five hours a day, he did those four things. At the end of two years, he had a 14 handicap. Jack had added 2 strokes to my game!

That's when the physicist said, "This makes no sense. There's got to be a better way to hit a round object with a stick." It took less than 45 days of study to discover that although great golf is played with conventional clubs and swing methods, it's an extremely complex method. To consistently hit a golf ball where you want it to go with traditional methods is attainable by less than 5% of players. The design of the clubs forces grips and swing methods which do not allow for an Ideal mechanical motion. Jack replaced the grips with rubber hose and wrapped the grips with tennis racket leather to make them the size of a baseball bat handle or tennis racket grip. In 45 days, using a palm grip and focusing on a right handed underhanded throwing action, he shot three sub par rounds in a row. He had a 4 under, a 2 under, and a 3 under round. On the fourth day, he changed from medical and laser physics to golf physics and started a golf company.

His first company, called RIGHT WAY GOLF, gave him five years of experience on how to market a new concept into the golf market. He made the initial assumption that golf was a game. He believed, that if something works, that it would receive acceptance once the facts were known and understood. Jack was 100 percent wrong!

He found out that golf is a religion. Once golfers and teachers have made up their minds about mechanics, teaching, or philosophy of the game, they never let facts get in their way! He discovered that the only way he was to going to get his philosophy across was to tell the story directly to golfers.

Jack closed RIGHT WAY GOLF and started Lever Power Golf. Paul Azinger won the tour championship with the THING putter and that gave Natural Golf recognition. In 1991, he was explaining my system to Mark Evershed, a Canadian golf professional, and when he finished, Mark said, "that's Moe Norman." Jack responded with, "Who's Moe Norman?" Mr. Evershed provided him with a tape made by Canadian TV on Moe. That was his first introduction to the greatest ball striker in the history of golf. Using correctly interpreted science, Jack had independently discovered the simple and accurate method which Moe had been using for the last forty years. It took him over a year to set up a meeting with Moe. When they met, he went over the science of the golf swing with him. Jack showed Moe that it was the mechanics he used that had separated him from all other golfers and allowed him to become the greatest ball striker in the history of golf. When Jack finished, Moe said, "All my life I've wondered why I was the best ball striker in golf. You are the first person who could explain it to me."

Jack has performed numerous clinics with Moe and correctly explained what he actually does during the stroke. Moe has awed the best players in the world for the last forty years. No one, until he came along, ever explained Moe's mechanics correctly. Everyone passed his mechanics off as something only Moe could do. Jack showed, scientifically, that it's the simplest mechanics the golf world had ever seen and that Moe's mechanics can be mastered by anyone.

In January of 1996, Jack Kuykendall was named one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers in America. For more information email Jack Kuykendall or phone (602) 706-6228.