Who is Compy? Compy is our patented golf training device used indoors to forge massive amounts of high precision golf skill. Compy is not a launch monitor. Compy focuses on how well you can deliver your club with high precision to satisfy a challenge. Compy’s “eyes” are much more powerful than our naked eyes. Compy gets its name from “compiler.”
In golf training, the eternal nut to crack is: “OK, I understand A, B, and C. Why can’t I do it on demand with a real ball on a real course?” At PG, this is the absolute crux of the value we provide. You take your realizations about what you should do to get a great result, and, through your daily training with Compy, you get “ah-ha!” breakthrough discoveries that those “realizations” are getting compiled into a new language your body actually understands and uses to bring about precise intentions.
By analogy, in the world of computers, programmers write programs. You can read the programs and understand the result they will produce. “Do X and Y, and you will see Z appear on the screen.” But, the language you are reading will NOT cause the actual computer to execute that program. The computer does not speak the language of “Do X and Y.” This language instruction has to go through a compiler, where it is translated into a more basic set of instructions (machine language) that the computer can read and execute.
Compy helps you compile skill that delivers. To develop deep mastery of golf, you must compile or translate everything you realize “about” the golf swing, including its mechanics and the state of the mind that generates the swing, into “machine language” called the “motor program.”
Herein lies the frustration for many golfers. They know what they should do, but it somehow does not actually come out of them on demand. Compy is the compiler assistant helping you “bake” or embed conscious realizations (swing thoughts, mechanics ideas, focus strategies, etc.) into a package of body execution automations. It comes out like this: “Choose to do X, activate X in your mind, initiate movement corresponding to X, get excellent result of X.” This is the macro-program that will inform all of your specific motor programs.
Look closely at all of the golf training aids and golf instruction you are aware of, and ask this simple question: “Knowing or using this, how exactly will this (or could this) produce a deeply automated motor program in my neuromuscular system that will lead to high consistency in getting intended results?” “How exactly would this actually get me from here to there?” In many cases, you may find that the answer is: “This device is great and this insight is interesting. Add it to your list of swing thoughts, and now, go out and find it in the dirt.” The translation or compilation function is not covered.
When you practice with Compy, you are “baking” or encoding a form of swing knowledge that is “felt” instead of “thought about.” This distinction lies at the true heart of golf greatness. You start with the intention to do X, you try to do it, Compy tells you what happened, you respond by doing it again, and this back and forth process, in real time, compiles the data in the part of your brain where motor programs are stored. With the program embedded deeply, the performance simply requires that you activate and then allow the program to flow through you.
This should be your goal. Intend X with the golf club and ball. Now activate the inner sense of doing it and then do it. If you are not getting a consistently precise result, there is more work to be done. Your motor program is not robust and deeply embedded. You in fact have the potential to refine this until intending X produces result X and the process feels like a simple flow.
Compy is a hands-on kinesthetic event. You feel your way to the solution. That is why we at PG speak of “unleashing.” This potential for mastery is in fact in you. You have all of the inherent neuromuscular infrastructure you need. Unleash that infrastructure by installing powerful motor programs for golf. Realize what needs to be in there, compile it into brain language, and repeat. Hello, Compy!”
