Gary Brooks began his teaching career as an Assistant Golf Professional in 1979.   Gary’s knowledge of the swing increased when he had the opportunity to work with one of the Golf Digest Top 100 Teachers, Ed Oldfield.

Through the years, Gary was always trying to find different ways to improve his students swing.   Gary felt, if his students could repeat the positions they learned during their lesson, they would be more consistent and enjoy playing golf a lot more.

As golf teaching aids became more popular with the average golfer, they also became wonderful tools to a PGA Professional.   With a variety of teaching aids on the market, students quickly learned that feeling the correct swing fundamentals did improve their swings.

In 1990, Gary experimented with many of his own proto types of teaching aids that he believed would help his students.   After a year of many wild contraptions, concepts and theories, Gary believed he came up with a teaching aid that would be helpful to the PGA Professional in their teaching but also to the passionate students who couldn’t afford the help of a PGA Professional.

In 1991, Gary invented his teaching aid the “Original” Straight Arm.   The Straight Arm was accepted by his students immediately.  When the students put the Straight Arm on, with their first swing, they could feel, see and physically do the correct lead arm position.   They were amazed that for the first time they could take a back swing, come down to the impact position and onto their follow-through just below their shoulders correctly.

With this breakthrough, students could now feel and understand the advantages of a correct straight lead arm.   Their practice became more effective and they improved for the reason that, repeating the correct movement improved their accuracy and distance.

The Straight Arm will work for every player, men, women, juniors, right or left handed.  The Straight Arm has been improving swings for 18 years from kids that are as young as 3 to adults into their 80’s.

In 1996, the Straight Arm was in the golf movie “Tin Cup” with Kevin Costner and Rene Russo.  That was exciting for Gary, then there was a follow-up article written in Golf Digest called “Inside The Ropes”.   The article included a picture of Kevin Costner wearing the Straight Arm, again very exciting to see.

Over the years, I have sold to Golf Professionals as far away as Switzerland.   I currently have PGA Professionals that have the honor of being Golf Digest Top 100 Teachers, Golf Magazine Top 100 Teachers, PGA Master Professionals, PGA Tour Players, PGA Professionals Of The Year, Golf Schools along with a number of Class A PGA Professionals from coast to coast using the Straight Arm.

Every Straight Arm comes with a full color Instruction Book with how to properly tighten and wear the Straight Arm to achieve the full benefits.   There are also a number of Swing Drills you can practice with and without hitting a golf ball to gain a full understanding of the proper position which will improve your golf game and lower your score. 

The instructional DVD severs many proposes, first, it gives the player the correct visual of how the Straight Arm should fit on their arm.   Second, the player can watch the proper swing of the arms from right hip to impact, observing the hand rotation and finishing at the left hip.   Third, they can view the recommended swing speed while I hit a golf ball so they will accomplish positive results while they practice using their Straight Arm.   Next, listen as I explain what happens during a swing when a player has poor swing positions and the bad results they produced.   Then I demonstrate, wearing the Straight Arm, the many advantages that will happen when the correct positions are done properly.

And lastly, I demonstrate without the Straight Arm, in slow motion, hitting a golf ball, the full correct swing, so again you can fully understand all of the swing positions from the start, the address position, back swing, at the top, down swing, impact, follow-through and to the end, where I show the collapsing of both arms in a well balanced position.

If you are thinking about purchasing a Straight Arm and have questions about size or how it could help your swing, please contact us at your convenience.  If you have already purchased a Straight Arm, Thank you, if you have questions, I encourage you to contact us.