Athletic Motion Golf- The Podcast

Welcome to the swing confessional. Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion Golf open up about every dumb thing they bought, built, or did in the name of getting better at golf before they had GEARS, force plates, or any way to actually measure what works. Their stories are funny, painful, and brutally honest. The kind of stuff most golf coaches would never admit to a camera. The PVC pipe...

"For anyone taking on the task of improving their golf swing... you have to F your feels." Your feels are a memory. They're not a movement. They degrade over time, they're the worst possible anchor for changing a real motor pattern, and they're the number one reason why "I tried it and it didn't work" means literally nothing in a golf lesson. Shaun and Mike...

Most golf training aids will make you worse...and the average golfer doesn't know. Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion Golf pull back the curtain on training aids: the ones they actually recommend, the ones that quietly train the OPPOSITE movement of what you're trying to fix, and the simple criteria every training aid has to pass to be worth your money. The big rule: a trai...

Why do so many golf lessons fail? It's not always the coach. It's not always the player. It's usually the conversation that never happened between them. In today's Athletic Motion Golf Podcast, Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break down both sides of the golf lesson equation. The player side (what to expect, what to ask, what to demand) and the coach side (the resort lesson vs. the...

The most misunderstood thing in the entire golf swing. Impact doesn't happen on the front side of your body. It happens on the trail side. Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break down the concept that almost no golf instruction teaches — and the reason every cartoonish impact pose, rib-cracker drill, and "swing your arms across" cue has been training you toward the opposite of what every...

You can take a lesson from the best coach in the world and still waste your money. Not because the instruction is bad. Because of how you take the lesson! Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion golf break down the player's side of the equation... the part almost nobody talks about. How to show up, what information to give your coach, why racing through a bucket of balls ruins everyt...

The follow-up to the Bad Swing Advice Hall of Fame is finally here. After the first podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb were flooded the comments with one reques... do the BEST swing advice version. So Shaun and Mike sat down and inducted the cues they use to fix more amateur swings than anything else. The first inductee alone fixes 999 out of 1000 golfers. The trail arm has to lift and stay wi...

You can get 500 golf lessons a day on Instagram. That's the problem. Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break down what they call the "golf swing hamster wheel" — the trap most amateur golfers are stuck in. Try a tip. Bail after one bad shot. Try the next tip. Spend years working hard and going nowhere. This episode  of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast is the framework AMG uses to coach pl...

99% of golfers are lowering their trail arm in the backswing. Tour players lift it. This single move is the difference between a swing with power and a swing stuck in a plateau. Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break it all down on today's Athletic Motion Golf Podcast...the trail arm lift epidemic. Why decades of "don't lift your arms" instruction, the Hogan rope image, and the towe...

Why do we measure every golf swing in 3D? Mike Granato and Shaun Webb sit down on the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast to answer the one question they'd never been asked before and the answer goes way deeper than "why guess when you can measure." In this episode, Mike and Shaun break down the difference between perception and perspective in the golf swing, why most golfers (and even mos...

The AMG GEARS database captures swings from players with combined tour earnings of over $2 billion. That data draws a very clear line between what tour winners actually do and what amateur golfers keep getting taught. Shaun and Mike open the Bad Swing Advice Hall of Fame with the 4 cues that have done the most damage. The hip turn inductee alone will change how you practice. 🎁  FREE Training Here...

Most amateur golfers struggle to improve their game… not because of talent, but because of how they practice golf. In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb break down the BIGGEST mindset differences between amateur golfers and professional golfers, including PGA Tour players, and why most golfers stay stuck at the same handicap for years. If you’ve ever wondered w...

If you’ve ever heard of The Golfing Machine by Homer Kelly and wondered whether it’s still relevant today… this is the breakdown you’ve been looking for. In this episode of the Athletic Motion Podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb chat with Brian Manzella to discuss The Golfing Machine book, one of the most talked-about (and misunderstood) golf instruction systems ever created. We cover what Home...

If you want more clubhead speed, more distance, and a golf swing that actually feels effortless… you NEED to understand this. In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb sit down with former Navy SEAL turned performance expert Dr. Joe LaCaze , who breaks down the exact system elite athletes use to unlock fast twitch muscle fibers, increase clubhead speed, and...

James Leitz...Golf Digest Top 100 Instructor, Top 100 Club Fitter, and one of the game's earliest adopters of 3D motion capture and force plate technology, joins Mike Granato and Shaun Webb on the Athletic Motion Podcast to break down the framework he calls the "3 Grapes." In this episode, James walks through how the upper torso, pelvis, and center of mass move in the golf swing, wh...

In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast, Mike Granato and Shaun Webb sit down with NBA Hall of Famer Grant Hill to talk about his journey into golf and how his mindset as a professional athlete has shaped the way he approaches the game. Grant shares what it’s been like learning golf later in life after a 25-year basketball career, including the challenges of starting from scratch, rebu...

Golf shafts bend, twist, droop, and deflect during the golf swing and most golfers have NO idea how much this impacts their ball flight. In this podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb from Athletic Motion Golf sit down with Michael “Nipper” Nef, President and CEO of GEARS Golf, the most advanced golf swing motion capture system in the world. GEARS has captured millions of golf swings, including hu...

If you’ve ever wondered how AI golf coaching actually works, this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf podcast with Mike Granato & Shaun Webb breaks it down in detail. We sit down with the creator of the Swing Coach app, the AI-powered golf swing analysis tool that’s changing how golfers train using just an iPhone. We cover motion capture without markers, 120fps swing analysis, real-time voice...

Most golfers think they’re practicing correctly. They’re not. In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb chat with Erik Barzeski to break down the 4 types of golfers we see in lessons — and why only one type actually improves long-term. If you’ve ever wondered how to practice golf properly, why your swing changes don’t stick, or why you’re not getting better...

Are men and women golf swings actually different? Or is there really just one fundamental golf swing? In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast , Mike Granato and Shaun Webb sit down with instructor Nathalie Sheehan to discuss the real differences between male and female golfers , common swing tendencies, and how instructors should approach coaching each. While the fundamentals of the go...

If you’re trying to increase driver distance, gain clubhead speed, or add serious carry to your drives , this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast with Mike Granato and Shaun Webb breaks down a real-world speed training transformation. In just four weeks , Athletic Motion Golf student Kyle increased his driver clubhead speed from 101 mph to 107 mph , producing 11 mph more ball speed and rou...

Is the “shallow the club” trend ruining your swing? In this episode, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb from Athletic Motion Golf sit down with Wills Murray...AMG’s newest certified instructor now coaching out of The Lab in Monterey, California. Wills dives into what he's seeing on the West Coast, and we break down the overcorrection epidemic that’s sabotaging thousands of amateur golfers trying t...

When top PGA Tour pros need to fix their swing, they call Scott Hamilton. In this exclusive episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast , Mike Granato and Shaun Webb sit down with one of the most respected coaches on tour — Scott Hamilton — to uncover what really separates the best in the world from everyone else. From tour-level ball striking and the myths average golfers still believe, to how Sc...

This might be the most misunderstood concept in the golf swing… and it's costing golfers more than they realize. In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast , Mike Granato and Shaun Webb break down one of the most commonly botched elements in the modern golf swing: shaft lean at impact . Golfers everywhere are obsessed with achieving that “tour-level look” — hands forward, clubface co...

What if everything you thought about early extension was wrong? In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf podcast, Mike Granato and Shaun Webb dive deep into one of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed swing faults in golf: early extension . Most golfers (and sadly, a lot of coaches too) are watching the wrong hip, misreading camera angles, and making massive swing changes to fix a problem th...