TPI Assessment & Golf Movement Screen
Identify the Physical Limitations Affecting Your Golf Performance.
At Smith Performance Therapy, TPI assessments and golf movement screens are designed to help golfers better understand how their body influences performance on the course.
Many golfers spend years working on swing changes without realizing that physical limitations in mobility, stability, strength, or movement sequencing may be contributing to inconsistency, loss of distance, or recurring pain.
A Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) assessment helps identify the movement limitations that may be affecting swing efficiency, club speed, rotation, balance and stability, power generation, consistency, mobility, and physical stress during the swing.
By understanding how your body moves, we can create a more targeted strategy to improve physical performance, reduce limitations, and support more efficient movement patterns for golf.
What Is a TPI Assessment?
A TPI assessment is a golf-specific movement evaluation developed by the Titleist Performance Institute.
The assessment process is designed to analyze how the body’s mobility, stability, strength, balance, and movement control may influence golf performance.
The TPI philosophy is built around a simple concept:
There is no single perfect golf swing. Instead, golfers perform best when their swing works efficiently with the way their body is capable of moving.
At Smith Performance Therapy, TPI assessments focus on identifying physical limitations that may contribute to:
Swing compensations
Loss of power
Reduced mobility
Inconsistent movement patterns
Restricted rotation
Decreased balance and control
Increased physical stress
Recurring discomfort during or after play
The goal is to better understand how your body moves so we can create an individualized plan to improve physical performance and long-term durability.
TPI Assessments in Charleston & Mount Pleasant, SC
Smith Performance Therapy provides golf movement assessments and TPI screenings for golfers throughout Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and surrounding South Carolina communities.
Whether you are a competitive golfer, recreational player, junior athlete, or active adult looking to improve your game, a golf movement screen can help identify opportunities to improve mobility, stability, strength, rotational control, athletic sequencing, swing efficiency, physical resilience
Our approach combines golf-specific movement analysis with advanced physical therapy and strength and conditioning expertise to create a more complete understanding of golf performance.
Why Golfers Choose Smith Performance Therapy for TPI Assessments
Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Certified
Kevin Smith is Titleist Performance Institute Certified, providing specialized expertise in golf-specific movement assessment and physical performance training.
This certification allows Smith Performance Therapy to assess how physical limitations may influence golf performance and movement efficiency.
TPI screening helps identify whether issues such as limited mobility, poor stability, or strength deficits may be contributing to restricted rotation, swing compensations, inconsistent movement, reduced club speed, loss of balance, increased stress on the body.
The assessment process helps golfers better understand how physical function may impact performance on the course.
Doctor of Physical Therapy & Board Certified in Orthopedics
Kevin Smith is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Board Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist with advanced expertise in movement analysis, orthopedic evaluation, and musculoskeletal performance.
This background provides a deeper understanding of how joint mobility, stability deficits, previous injuries, movement dysfunction, strength limitations, and compensation patterns can affect both movement quality and golf performance.
Mobility Assessment
Mobility restrictions can significantly influence swing efficiency and rotational movement.
The assessment may evaluate mobility in areas such as:
Thoracic spine
Hips
Shoulders
Ankles
Core rotation
Limitations in these areas may contribute to compensatory movement patterns during the swing.
Strength & Conditioning Expertise
Golf performance depends heavily on the body’s ability to generate force, maintain stability, and move efficiently through rotational patterns.
Smith Performance Therapy incorporates evidence-based strength and conditioning principles into golf performance recommendations following your assessment.
This helps golfers improve rotational power, stability and control, athletic movement capacity, balance and sequencing, strength development, long-term physical resilience.
What the TPI Assessment Evaluates
Rotational Movement Analysis
Efficient rotational movement is essential for generating power and maintaining swing efficiency.
The TPI assessment helps identify how rotational movement patterns may influence:
Hip rotation
Thoracic rotation
Weight transfer
Sequencing
Power generation
Movement efficiency
Stability & Balance Testing
Golf requires the ability to maintain stability while producing rotational movement and force. Your assessment may evaluate:
Single-leg balance
Core stability
Rotational control
Lower body stability
Dynamic movement control
Deficits in these areas can affect consistency, sequencing, and force transfer.
Common Issues Identified During TPI Assessments
Many golfers are surprised to learn how frequently physical limitations contribute to performance issues.
Common findings may include:
Limited hip mobility
Poor thoracic rotation
Core stability deficits
Single-leg balance limitations
Shoulder mobility restrictions
Ankle mobility deficits
Reduced rotational control
Movement compensations
Strength imbalances
These limitations can influence both performance and physical stress throughout the golf swing.
What Happens After the Assessment?
Following your TPI assessment, Smith Performance Therapy develops an individualized plan based on your movement profile, physical limitations, and performance goals.
Recommendations may include:
Mobility training
Strength development
Rotational power exercises
Stability training
Movement sequencing drills
Recovery strategies
Golf performance programming
Injury prevention strategies
The goal is to help golfers improve movement efficiency and build the physical capacity needed to support long-term performance.
Virtual TPI Assessments AND Remote Golf Movement Screening
Smith Performance Therapy also offers virtual TPI assessments and remote golf movement screenings for golfers outside the Charleston and Mount Pleasant area.
Through guided virtual evaluations and individualized movement analysis, golfers can receive customized recommendations designed to improve mobility and rotation, stability and balance, strength and force production, movement efficiency, physical capacity for golf.
Remote assessments provide golfers with expert guidance and individualized programming from anywhere.
TPI Assessments vs. Swing Instruction
A TPI assessment is not golf swing instruction.
Smith Performance Therapy focuses on evaluating and improving the physical components that influence movement efficiency and golf performance.
Rather than changing swing mechanics, the assessment process helps identify how mobility, strength, stability, and movement limitations may affect the way your body moves during the swing.
This distinction is important because many golfers struggle with movement limitations that make certain swing positions difficult or inefficient.
Improving physical capacity often helps golfers move more efficiently and consistently.
Serving Charleston & Mount Pleasant, SC
Smith Performance Therapy proudly provides TPI assessments and golf movement screens for golfers throughout Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and surrounding South Carolina communities.
Our performance-focused approach combines golf-specific movement analysis with advanced orthopedic and strength training expertise to help golfers move better and perform at a higher level.