The ten-test Quest for 180 benchmark battery — mobility, stability, power, rotation, strength and speed. Reproducible under the same conditions, retested every six weeks.
Hip IR/ER → ankle → thoracic → glute bridge → single-leg balance → broad jump → rotational medicine-ball throw → anti-rotation.
Kolby starts here — restricted hip movement affects loading, rotation and kinetic-chain compensation.
Tested seated, knees together, so the pelvis can't contribute — isolates the thoracic spine.
Foot stability, ankle mobility, knee stability and hip function are all connected.
Where you feel it matters more than repetitions — hamstring-dominant feel is a real finding, not a pass.
The basic chassis test — exposes foot, ankle, knee, hip and trunk rather than letting the stronger side compensate.
Repeatable lower-body power benchmark using nothing more than a tape measure. 3 warm-up + 3 maximal jumps, full recovery between.
One of the most important tests in the battery — a baseline directly related to swinging faster. Same ball every test. 3 attempts each direction.
Same band, same anchor point, same standing position every time. Cap at 30s — once comfortable both sides, increase resistance rather than duration.
Standardised warm-up → cruising SpeedStick test → maximum-speed SpeedStick test → long recovery → trap-bar 5RM.
Testing the cannon — not a 1RM. Use a 3RM or 5RM (5RM if you haven't done regular heavy trap-bar work recently). Stop when technique deteriorates.
All speed swings are taken with SpeedSticks, not a driver and ball — so this is club speed only. Two separate benchmarks: maximum speed (where the ceiling is) and cruising speed (the real golfing goal — a normal, committed swing).
A. Maximum speed — 3 sets × 5 swings, maximum intent, 60–90s between swings, 3–5 min between sets.
B. Cruising speed — 10 normal, committed swings. The swing you'd take onto the course. Don't chase the radar.
A separate record from the SpeedStick tests above — real driver-and-ball performance, tracked here every testing day too.
10 normal driver swings on the launch monitor, ball in play.
Not to judge the test by the colour, but to give six months of results real context.
Click a row to load that session above. Repeat the same battery every six weeks — the pattern across sessions is what actually answers the question.
| Date | Hip IR/ER (T/L) | Thoracic L/R | Broad jump | Med-ball avg | Trap-bar | Max club speed | Cruise avg | Cruise fastest | Driver avg CHS | Driver avg BS |
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The live scorecard tracking ball speed and on-course club speed against the March 2027 target.
View the hub →Why this is an assess-first programme — the reasoning behind every test in this battery.
Read the approach →