Jason Baile, the PGA director of instruction at Jupiter Hills Club in Tequesta, Florida, has long recognized the importance of working on golfers' bodies and movement patterns. It makes perfect sense that Baile, who teaches some of the best players in the world as well as the members and guests at Jupiter Hills, is part of the team that is helping GolfForever explore new heights.
Baile, the 2025 PGA of America Teacher of the Year, teaches some of the game’s best players, including Lucas Glover, Peter Uihlein, Bud Cauley, Hayden Buckley, and Ryan Gerard.
He has not only incorporated GolfForever methods and tools into his instructional program, but he is also devising new ways to utilize the platform to help his students – both professionals and amateurs – achieve their goals more quickly by creating and consulting on content and programming for the GolfForever app.
We recently had a chance to ask Baile a few questions about how GolfForever is helping golf instructors teach better both now and, in the future, and how he’s using it at Jupiter Hills.
What aspects about GolfForever align with your philosophies on the connection between the body and golf swing?
I’m constantly looking for something that is the mesh point between fitness and golf instruction. Also, from the standpoint of whether it's user-safe for all demographics. I had dabbled with some other things, but with GolfForever the mesh point was there.
Our fitness center is about 500 yards from our golf performance center, and that might as well be 500 miles. Because trying to transfer the information from a golf performance standpoint to a golf fitness standpoint with your typical member is a tricky thing to do if the buildings are apart.
I’m always looking for something a member could take home and do some stuff on the app. And I don't worry about them getting hurt when they’re doing GolfForever unsupervised.
GolfForever seems to be the ideal mesh point between the body and the swing. Has that been your experience?
To be honest, that’s why I agreed to come on board. That was where I was hoping to help the company a bit. To get it to where the golf professionals and the fitness professionals would look at it the same way, where they could partner more together, where the golf professional could say, “Yeah, this is an awesome training aid, and, by the way, you can do golf fitness with it.” And the fitness professional would say, “GolfForever is an awesome fitness tool, and by the way, it’s a training aid for golf, too.”
GolfForever is not only a great fitness tool but a wonderful training aid for golf professionals, too. It allows you to use your imagination in a way to solve key movement patterns and replace them with better movement patterns within a golf lesson.
What has GolfForever done for your amateur students in terms of the productivity of their lessons?
When I’ve used all my tricks in the bag to improve a player's pivot or to get them out of a flaw, when I put the GolfForever Swing Trainer in their hands and ask them to do the same thing, it works faster. Because the feedback is there, the athletic movement is there, and it saves me a bunch of time within a lesson when I’m trying to get a player to make a significant change.
If you see a flaw or a change you’re trying to make in a student’s swing, with GolfForever exercises, are you more able now to just dial up a specific exercise and prescribe it?
Absolutely. I think that’s the fun part as we continue to grow as a company. The fitness side and golf instructor side -- we’re getting smarter, we’re getting more innovative with what we can use the different tools for, whether it be the bands, the handles, or the swing trainer itself. There are lots of things that we’re excited about doing together, which is a big part of why I wanted to be part of the company.
I’d love to just get into a room with the fitness people and me from the golf side, and go through swing flaws, and figure out imaginative ways to impress upon a player what movement pattern we’re trying to change.
What’s a swing change you might make with a student that you could use GolfForever to ingrain?
I have a player who is a professional without status. He’s Monday-qualified for a couple of tour events. He had a little bit of a reverse spine at the top, meaning the top of his spine would start leaning toward the target as he reached the top of the swing. When I put the swing trainer and a band on it and attached it to something and had him push the swing trainer away with a split grip, immediately the reverse spine would go away. Because he’s not going to take that and lift it over his head and extend too much. And also, because the band is not going to allow him to do that.
His core got engaged, his feet to the ground got better, and the internal rotation to his trail hip got better. This was actually one of those times when I tried every tool I had to explain it to him, and we were not as successful as I wanted to be. I put GolfForever in his hands, and immediately the feedback was there. And the cool thing is, they come up with their own ways of feeling it. They might say, “I felt like I was deeper in my right hip.” Or “I felt like my chest stayed a little more down rather than up in the backswing.”
I only change golf swings for two reasons: The ball doesn’t fly the way you want it to, or you are hurt or going to get hurt continuing to do what you do.
What are some ways you're seeing golfers' movement patterns improve after first addressing their physical limitations?
Members who have never been in a golf-specific fitness program or performance program often fear it because they think they’re going to have to lift something heavy above their heads, or get sore, or that they’re going to have to run on a treadmill too much, or something like that.
But the moment they start seeing these movement patterns and exercises that we’re able to do with them (through GolfForever), they understand this is going to help their golf game just by being able to move more beautifully. And that's the first thing we ask our members. Let’s start with moving beautifully each day. This is our mesh point again, from golf to fitness, on how we’re going to start that process.
What are a couple of warm-up moves that everybody should be doing before they start a round of golf?
We have warm-up stations with GolfForever equipment (there’s a warm-up card explaining how to do all the exercises), both in our members’ bay and on the range. I would say the first thing would be just a couple of low-to-high pulls, working on your pivot both backwards and on the forward swing. And then just some regular swings to warm up with the Swing Trainer. I tell everybody from a warm-up standpoint, I just want you to feel like, before you hit your first ball, that you’ve already hit 15.
A lot of them religiously use the warm-up stations. Once again, that’s a mesh point. It looks like a piece of fitness equipment, but it’s on the driving range, so it can’t just be a fitness piece. It has to have something to do with golf. And when they start doing the exercises to warm up, they realize that more and more.
If a student comes in and desires more swing speed, what’s the process?
They’re going to get evaluated first through our GolfForever screening process. And we’re going to identify whether this is a suitable time to put some speed in there. I’m going through that with a professional player right now. The agent wants more speed, and I’m telling the agent to just give me a second; let’s get a good pattern first, let’s get our body ready, then we can add the speed. If we don’t wait, and we just add speed to a bad pattern, that’s where injury occurs.
We want to make sure we’re developing an athlete holistically. If a member comes to us for a lesson and doesn't pass some of our tests in the beginning, then we’re not going to start with him swinging faster. We’re going to start with building a better platform, building a better pattern, then adding speed to that.
How do great players produce speed that seems so effortless?
I think the guys who do it the best kind of start at the bottom of the chain with their ankles and work all the way up through their thoracic spine and cervical spine to make sure everything is kind of greased up and ready to go.
Mobility for most of our members is an issue, so we’re trying to make them all more mobile. And mobility I would take over stability and flexibility almost any day. We always want to make sure the mobility is there for all of them because none of us are aging and gaining more mobility. Now we have a lot of great ways to help them create more mobility at any age.
