Most golfers try to improve with partial information. They work on a swing feel without understanding how their body actually moves. They add a short-game drill without knowing whether contact, trajectory, or decision-making is the real limiter. They chase a score while their mind resists change the moment pressure rises. A baseline removes the fog. It shows, with precision, where performance currently sits and where the biggest gains will come from — not as a pile of disconnected fixes, but as a coherent picture you can trust.

Every golfer’s pathway is unique. Performance improvement can relate to fitness, strength, speed, balance, agility, mechanics, course play — or a combination of all of these. The assessment respects that complexity while keeping the process simple. It protects what already works, reveals the smallest refinements that will have the largest effect, and translates the findings into a periodised plan that suits how you learn, practise, and play.

The assessment is built on three pillars that remove opinion from coaching. Biomechanics reveals what the swing and body are truly doing — in motion and at impact. Psychology ensures refinements are accepted by the brain when pressure arrives. Performance Identity aligns who the golfer believes themselves to be with how they play, so changes hold under stress. Together, these pillars convert deep analysis into simple, durable refinements.

Biomechanics — Seeing What’s Really There

In the lab, movement and club delivery are measured in detail — not to enforce a model, but to read the story your body is telling. A pattern that looks like a limitation can prove functional when matched to your sequencing and stability; a face angle that appears shut may be entirely reliable if it consistently matches your path. The goal is to distinguish protective compensations from genuinely disruptive movements. When you know which is which, you can protect the former and refine the latter, avoiding rebuilds and preserving confidence.

Psychology — Coaching the Brain to Allow Change

A new motion that works on the range can vanish on the first tee. The body didn’t forget; the mind rejected the unfamiliar. The assessment makes this visible. Through conversation and task design, Chris exposes where fear — a dreaded left miss, a score target, a story about “consistency” — drives compensations. The remedy is clarity. When the brain understands why a refinement matters and how it protects performance, resistance gives way to trust, and the motion becomes available under pressure.

Performance Identity — Making Improvements Stick

Golfers play in alignment with self-image. If identity says “I tighten when it counts,” the swing tightens to obey. From your questionnaire to the language used during testing, Chris maps the beliefs you bring to competition and reframes them toward adaptability and trust. The assessment doesn’t just measure a motion; it helps reshape the story that motion lives inside. That is why, when identity shifts, performance follows — not just for a day, but in a way that lasts.

The assessment blends controlled measurement in the physiology lab with the realities of the course. In the lab, the environment is stable and the data is clean. That’s where swing mechanics, sequencing, face-to-path control, strike patterning, launch and spin relationships, and putting roll dynamics can be examined without noise. It’s also where golf-specific physical screening takes place — mobility, strength, speed, balance, and agility — because your body’s capability sets the ceiling for what a motion can become.

On the course, those movements are tested against decision-making, strategy, and arousal. Club selection, shot pattern management, green reading, intention under pressure — this is where we see whether a protective push is actually guarding against a feared miss left, or whether a conservative line is masking a confidence issue rather than a technical one. By bringing the lab and the course together, the assessment prevents misdiagnosis: changes are not prescribed in isolation but in the context where you must actually perform.

Your assessment produces objective measures that become the foundation of your programme and the benchmarks for re-testing. In full swing, that may include face-to-path control by degree, low-point and strike dispersion, launch/spin windows by intent, and sequencing clarity. In short game, contact quality, trajectory windows, and speed control are profiled against realistic tasks. In putting, roll, face control, and pace stability are assessed alongside read and intention. Physically, your mobility, strength, and speed profile is mapped to what the swing is asking you to do. Psychologically, triggers that shift arousal and attention are identified so training conditions can be designed to stabilise them.

Because everything is measured, progress becomes a matter of audit rather than opinion. When a refinement is prescribed, its effect is verified — in strike, in ball flight, in dispersion, in pace control, in decision quality. You don’t need faith to proceed; you have evidence.

Clarity begins before we meet. Chris asks every player to complete a brief profile so he can sit with your answers and consider your game carefully. The point is not to collect trivia; it is to understand how you perceive your golf, what you value, how you define “consistency,” and what progress means to you beyond the number on the card. Often, golfers discover even as they answer that what they want is not only lower scores, but a trusted ball flight, a satisfying strike, or composure after a poor stretch. Those insights change the design of the session and the design of your plan.

Download the questionnaire here: Player Profile Questionnaire (PDF).

The session opens with a conversation. Chris expands on your questionnaire, explores your language, and listens for the beliefs attached to phrases like “I just want consistency.” Then the measuring begins. In the lab, full-swing capture, short-game tasks, putting evaluation, and a golf-specific physical screen are completed at a pace that keeps you fresh and attentive. The goal is not to collect every metric imaginable, but to gather what is needed to explain your current performance and to reveal the smallest refinements with the largest effect.

On-course observation or simulated course tasks follow, depending on conditions and schedule. Here the same patterns meet choices: line selection, intention, tolerance for miss patterns, and the moment-to-moment narratives that either stabilise or destabilise arousal. This is where a two-way miss can be seen for what it is — sometimes not two faults, but one fear managed in two different ways. When the day concludes, you will have a clear baseline and a first view of what to protect, what to refine, and why those choices make sense.

Within a structured debrief, your findings are brought together in plain language. You will see the current state of your game relative to your goals — not as a list of faults, but as an integrated picture. The report clarifies what belongs to you and should be protected, where a precise refinement will unlock disproportionate gain, and which conditions help the brain accept that refinement when it matters.

The programme that follows is personalised and periodised. It reflects your learning style, the time you have available, and the competitions you care about. Drills are designed to connect the refinement to a feeling you can trust. Task conditions are chosen to stabilise attention and arousal. Physical components target the weakest links that limit motion, speed, or endurance. On-course applications align intention with dispersion and match strategy to your most reliable patterns. Every part of the plan exists because it supports the objective of playing better golf under pressure.

Development programmes work when they are built upon the weakest link. It is tempting to spend time polishing strengths, but scoring moves when the primary limiter improves. The assessment identifies that limiter and sequences work accordingly. Sometimes that means freeing a hip so sequencing and strike stabilise together. Sometimes it means redefining “consistency” so a protective pattern can be retired without fear. Sometimes it means putting at game-speed until pace control and read behaviour converge. The plan then runs in blocks — phases with focused aims, realistic loads, and re-tests to confirm that the weakest link is becoming a strength.

This is periodisation for golfers: intelligent, practical, and anchored to the calendar you play. It ensures you are building capacity when there is time to build, and consolidating what you need when events approach. Because the baseline exists, every block can be evaluated against it — not in vague terms, but in the numbers and behaviours that define performance.

Progress stalls when golfers are left to guess. Chris records sessions so you can revisit the detail with a quiet mind, and he encourages ongoing contact so questions are answered before uncertainty takes hold. Mid-week check-ins, short videos, and quick corrections protect momentum. When you return to the lab or the course, you are not starting again; you are extending what is already working, guided by measures that confirm it.

Because the assessment establishes what to protect and what to refine, you won’t be flooded with changes. You will be asked to do less, more clearly. That clarity is what makes confidence grow.

This process suits serious club golfers through to elite amateurs and professionals who want a complete picture of their game. It is not ability-based; it is person-based. If you value clarity over volume, evidence over opinion, and small refinements that deliver big gains over wholesale rebuilds, you will recognise yourself in this work. The assessment does not judge your motion against an abstract ideal. It discovers what belongs to you, what is protecting you, and what will move your scoring, your enjoyment, and your confidence most efficiently.

Assessments are conducted in Chris’s physiology lab at Performance Golf Lab, with additional on-course evaluation where appropriate. Session length varies according to goals and scope, but the pacing remains considered so attention stays high and the measurements remain honest.

If you are ready to establish your baseline and begin a programme you can trust, begin by downloading the profile and outlining your aims. Chris will review your information and propose the clearest next step.

Remote assessments can be arranged for international players. Video capture, stat review, movement screening, and live consultation are blended to produce the same clarity around your baseline and plan.

If you would like to see how deep analysis is used to simplify rather than overwhelm, this short film opens the studio doors. It illustrates why a movement that appears wrong is sometimes a protective solution and how small refinements are chosen because they influence the most.

The assessment reflects the same principles explored in Chris’s book: clarity instead of confusion, trust instead of fear, and identity-level change that lasts. If you like to study ideas before you experience them, the book offers a calm, practical companion to the work you’ll do in the lab and on the course.

Improvement is not a mystery. When the picture is complete, the path becomes simple: protect what works, refine what matters, practise in conditions that make the brain say yes, and confirm progress with measures that don’t lie. The Complete Golf Performance Assessment gives you that picture. From there, your plan is calm, precise, and yours.