Our Philosophy...

The Dickman philosophy is based on challenging the status quo in everything we do. To this end, we will help you build a golf swing that integrates swing style with a player's natural movement pattern to produce a swing efficiency that is verifiable. Bob is a long time Level 3 Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Golf Professional, and Kim is following in his footsteps as a Level 1 TPI Golf Professional. More than 40 years of study and practice has enabled Bob to employ teaching methods which have revolutionized the game of golf. This knowledge has been passed to Kim, who employs the same process with her students. 

So what does your first golf lesson with Bob or Kim Dickman look like?

Golf coaching sessions with us begin with a detailed physical screen of your body.  This screen is designed to determine your body's capabilities and limitations relative to the golf swing.  From there, we evaluate your golf swing under video and/or 3D analysis to look for movement patterns that equate to swing efficiency or deficiencies.  After screening the body and analyzing the efficiency of your golf swing, we use technology to map out ball, club and body trends. Trackman gives 22 data points showing what the ball and club are doing at impact. SportsBox AI uses proprietary 2D and 3D models to provide 30 key points on the body, club and ball, which allows us to accurately detect comprehensive joints and body segments in motion.

Using this technical data, we draw on our combined years of experience to make changes that optimize the student's power source based on what the strengths and weaknesses of the student are. We begin working on making a change by creating a motor pattern based on feel with the student. This change will set off a series of positive movements and swing deficiencies will begin to disappear. Our ability to find the true culprits of poor motion and help each student make a positive change is what what differentiates Bob and Kim from other golf instructors.

The student then ingrains these changes using a variety of kinesthetic and visual techniques for the continuation of the lesson. Random skill development  techniques allow the motor pattern development to transfer to the course are employed later in the lesson.

"Because casual training is the enemy of good golf and proper training breeds peak performance."

Fifteen years ago Robert Dickman Golf introduced the concept of coaching golf, distinct from teaching golf. Bob has worked hard to combine the two and this combination has made a tremendous difference in bringing your lesson tee swing to the golf course by employing the four steps in Motor Learning:

For those new to motor learning, a typical “Cause and Effect” lesson will transfer only 3% of what was learned on to the golf course. When students take the lesson through all four steps of Motor Learning, 90% of the lesson transfers to the course. This fact is why we try to simulate golf course situations in lessons. This also has been a major reason for the huge successes among our students on the course when it counts.

We look forward to Robert Dickman Golf coaching this great game to your children’s children. Seriously, we work with a family right now where we teach/coach the fourth generation! Our goal is to see all our students hit the ball on the course like we see them hit it on the range, and it is completely doable with the right environment.