ABOUT
THE INTRINSIC SWING
Hi, I'm Dan Szymczak and I want to help you unlock The Intrinsic Swing that already exists inside you for the game of golf.
A little about me:
I spent most of my adult life as a terrible golfer. You read that right: I was BAD at golf. I had the same struggles that a lot of players do. I picked up the game relatively late, when I was around 27 years old, and I tried to learn how to play on my own. It didn't go great. I was reading golf books and I was trying to learn by watching YouTube videos but I had a hard time consistently keeping it under 100.
In 2010, I moved back to my home town of Duluth, MN, and found that I didn't have much time to play anymore. The little technique I had disappeared quickly and when I played, I played BADLY. So badly, in fact, that I gave up the game, entirely, never expecting to play again. I didn't touch my clubs for over 3 years.
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In early 2015, a good friend was getting married outside of Atlanta and another, mutual friend called me and suggested I fly down a few days early and bring the clubs. I decided I could put up with playing poorly for a couple of days and just wanted to hang out on the course, like old times. I played twice, shot a 97 and a 94-- and I got the bug again.
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I came back to the game of golf with a mission: if I was going to play golf again, I knew I'd never be happy struggling to understand how to swing consistently. I dedicated myself to learning as much as I could about the golf swing. I would get better at golf no matter what it took.
I started studying Rotary Swing Tour (RST) and it was a revelation for me. I started to understand not just what I needed to do in the swing, but how to do it, too. Biomechanics, physics, kinematic sequencing-- I ate it all up. Hundreds of hours of independent study later, I passed my Level 1 Certification Test in April of 2018 and started teaching.
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A few years later, in 2020, I was exposed to Dan Martin golf. Dan's approach to the golf swing with his wonderful training tool The Pro changed the way I thought about and understood the physics of the golf swing. I knew that there was a better way to teach and I set out to establish my own methodology to help students not just get good at golf, but to understand and feel exactly what they need to do to get better.
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I began teaching at Nevada Bob's Golf in Duluth, MN, in the fall of 2018. By mid-summer of 2022, I had logged nearly 450 hours of teaching time. It was during that period that The Intrinsic Swing methodology really took form. Students started often seeing immediate results and I hearing regular feedback from students about playing the best golf of their lives.
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The Intrinsic Swing gets its name from the fact that watching someone's golf swing doesn't actually show you what you need to do, just like watching someone throw a ball doesn't help you develop a stronger arm. The golf swing needs far, far more context than that-- it needs to be felt. I can help you learn it, feel it, and make you a better golfer. Come and join me inside!
