Traditionally, golfers are taught to rotate their body improperly and thus twist their spine unnaturally. The spine cannot take that kind of punishment forever. Sooner or later golfers have neck, back, shoulder and hip pain. The bottom line, the doctor told me, was to “change my swing or give up golf.”

I was a professional golfer. I had perfected my swing according to the way I had been taught. Golf was my life! I could no more give up golf than stop breathing! Desperation became inspiration. Thus was born my unique golf method.  

 

About Jon Baker...

Golf has been Jon Baker’s life. He started playing with his father when he was 5.  His father was an excellent golfer, not a professional, but he took the game seriously and he taught Jon to do the same. His father practiced his swing often at the local driving range and read every book he could on the game.  The two of them would spend weekday afternoons and weekends working on their game together.

That practicing was invaluable for Jon.  At eight years old, when most boys were thinking about baseball, he entered his first golf tournament.  He was in Phoenix at the time and placed Second with a Score of 39 for 9 holes.  Two years later he won the 11-12 Year Old State Junior Championship even though he was only ten. At 12 and 14, he won the Junior World Championship and those years when he did not, he still placed in the top five – five times. When he was 14, he broke the existing Junior World Championship record by five shots!
The golf awards kept tumbling in! He was a Future Masters Champion at 14.  At 15, he was the Overall Jr. Amateur Winner of the Andy Bean World Pro Jr. – which he won playing with Sam Snead – and was Voted Outstanding Jr. in the Country by Golf Magazine five years in a row, when he was 11 to 15 years old.  He was an Arizona State High School Champion for two years and a Divisional Champion for four years. As a sophomore in high school, he was voted Outstanding Athlete and Golfer of the Year by the Phoenix Gazette and won the Basha’s Southwest Arizona Open as an amateur.

His golf game also earned him a college education; he went to Brigham Young University with a full golf scholarship. He placed Third as a freshman in the USA Japan Intercollegiate Division and was a Western Amateur Sweet 16 Finalist as a sophomore.

As a Junior he tied the course record of 65 at Point O’Woods Country Club in Benton Arbor, MI and had the lowest competitive round (61) at Riverside Country Club, in Provo, Utah. he was one of the youngest persons to have ever played in a U. S. Amateur event.  He was 16 and played the North Shore Country Club in Chicago.  In the next two U.S. Amateurs, he finished in the top 32 and top 16 finalists and had the lowest score and was medallist at the Utah Amateur. After college he turned professional.  For six years he made his living playing golf.  In more than 30 State Opens and MiniTour events he placed in the top 10 with 2 wins.

When he was not playing golf Jon was working in the industry. He spent more than five years working for PING Golf Company as an Executive Assistant to Alan Solheim.  At PING he did club testing performance comparisons and used the Hadland ballistic camera to work on golf club dynamics.  He fitted clubs for clients both statically and dynamically and worked with the PING engineers on the testing of shafts and golf club head design.

Today Jon spends his time teaching clients, performing corporate golf outings and managing Jon Baker’s Motion Memory Golf,  the company that he created.