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Imagine trucking along on a lengthy road trip. You’re hungry, your back’s sore, but you don’t know where to stop for food. Each exit might have exactly what you’re hankering for, or might point you to a diner that shut down six months ago. This is why we love and trust franchise restaurants. The familiar letters and colors of their neon signs are beacons of standardized fare.Joe Assell is doing for golfers what Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, did for hungry travelers. Because in many ways, the first step to getting better at golf is just as uncertain as trying to find a decent meal in the middle of nowhere.Hack teachers and clubfitters are out there, and they’re tough to spot at first glance. Assell’s company, GolfTEC, provides a userfriendly, standardized service for game improvement using modern technologies in instruction and clubfitting, and in July GolfTEC opened its 100th learning center. On July 10 the company taught it s millionth lesson. A long way to go before Assell can claim “Over 99 Billion Served,” but give the guy a break: He’s only 35.GolfTEC’s teaching system is founded on a database of 150 tourpro swings, collected through a partnership with the former HealthSouth tour fitness trailer. Holding this as the model, a GolfTEC instructor can compare a golfer’s swing on an indoor system using motion sensors synchronized with digital video. The golfer wears a vest that’s wired to a computer, and the system beeps if the player strays from proper positions during the swing. It’s instant feedback for teacher and player.Ninety percent of GolfTEC instructors are affiliated with the PGA or LPGA, and all have to complete a twoweek certification program. Students can keep the same instructor for an entire lesson program (packages start at 5 for five sessions). Websavvy students can access video from their lessons online. And because the company is nationwi de, students can keep training when they’re on the road or if they move.On the equipment side, GolfTEC can use information from a student’s swing analysis to design and build a custom set of clubs from a leading manufacturer. “Other swinganalyzer companies sell one piece of technology,” says Assell. “We provide the teaching and equipment, too. If we’re McDonald’s, then it’s like everybody else is just selling grills.”Assell started out as an intern at Cherry Hills Country Club, learning the trade of club professional. Then in 1995 the entrepreneurial spirit hit, and he opened the first GolfTEC in Denver.GolfTEC’s Joe Assell thinks his franchisebased business can grow to 1,000 locations worldwide.”Personal computers, email, cell phones a whole wave of technology was swelling,” Assell recalls. “I thought, Hey, let’s apply this to golf.”Bookings for that first location filled right away, and on e year later the second GolfTEC opened, in Chicago. Assell projects a worldwide potential for more than 1,000 locations. If a GolfTEC pops up in your neighborhood, rest assured it will be good for your game, unlike, say, a greasy beef patty with fries.ONE MAN’S QUEST TURNED GOLF’S GAINHis swing looked silky on video, so the bright young man from Northern California skipped college and turned pro. The tours took him across Australia and Asia, but his results were lukewarm, and the prize money slim.After three years Michael Bentley returned home, discouraged but not done. Reading the local paper one morning in 1987 he saw an interesting advertisement. Dr. Frank Jobe of the Los Angeles Centinela Hospital was seeking test subjects for a biomechanical research project on the golf swing. Whatever answers this Dr. Jobe was chasing, thought Bentley, he wanted them, too. There was something missing in his swing the human eye couldn’t detect.Bentley became a lab rat. When he wasn’t at the course practicing, he was at the hospital recording swings, digitizing rolls of film, or simply absorbing the sciencespeak of doctors. Bentley’s father, John, then a PGA professional, scoffed at the convoluted language his son learned to discuss the swing. But the son, who also grew up racing motorcycles, liked the idea of numerically measuring the forces of an engine. In this case, the engine being his swing.Bentley spent only one semester in college, but he has gained a knowledge of biomechanics enviable by any doctoral candidate. While training in Orlando, he volunteered at the Orthopaedics Research Lab, interacting with engineers, doctors and sports scientists.In time Bentley uncovered his invisible flaw. A dysfunction in his right hip was shutting off the power of his gluteus muscles, making it difficult to time his swing consistently. However, it had taken hours of going blind looking at spreadsheet data to figure this out.”What wouldR 17;ve been better was immediate feedback when I was on the range,” says Bentley. “That’s why we built KVest.”The “we” is Bentley Kinetics, the company he founded in 2005. The KVest is its flagship product, a light and fairly noninvasive harness with sensors for the hips, shoulders and lead wrist, from which data can be detected on speed, angles, rotation and timing. The sensors transmit wirelessly to a screen and generate an animated figure of the golfer that moves in real time.Using the KVest, an instructor can set up a laptop next to a student and program the swing area to be measured. For example, rotation of the hips. When the student swings in the correct position, the animated figure on the screen turns green and the computer emits a pleasing auditory tone. The moment the student overrotates, the animation turns red and the tone ceases.Bentley has abandoned his hopes of playing the tour. The pivotal moment came one day on the range at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach.
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