The
Keding
Golf System

Chapter one

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Years in the game

I started playing when I was six. Early in my career I played professionally, back when you either made the PGA Tour or struggled to make a living. Then I went into business and kept competing in scratch amateur events.

Knowing what it takes to score

My lowest round is 63. I’ve made nine birdies in one round and three eagles in another. I know what it feels like to win.

1980. A wooden three-wood. 369 yards.

Distance was my forte. I won a regional long-drive event in the early days of organized long drive, using a Tony Penna wooden-headed three-wood with a 42-inch regular shaft.

I’ve lived both sides: learning to score, and learning to create speed.

Then I stopped practicing

When I retired in Wilmington, I realized I wasn’t going to spend hours hitting balls, working out, stretching and grinding on my swing just to play at the level I wanted.

But I still wanted to play good golf. So a friend and I decided to do something different. We started researching.

Frame by frame

We studied the biomechanics of athletes in other sports, and golf swings old and new, from players like Yogi to Scottie Scheffler.

What players said they were doing often became much clearer once the motion was slowed down and studied frame by frame. That led to one question:

What if the body didn’t have to move back and forth to create a powerful, repeatable strike?

Take out the side-to-side

The modern swing is taught with lots of body motion, weight transfer, sequencing and timing. We tried the opposite: no lateral shift of body mass, no need to re-center. A single axis.

Solid contact. Not enough power.

At first we cut out much of the traditional arm swing and worked on a fused backswing and a fused return to the ball.

It felt like pushing the club through the bottom of the swing instead of releasing energy into the ball. Then something changed everything.

The 65-year-old grandpa

One night my friend sent me a video of a grandfather teaching his grandkids to hit a baseball. His bat speed was about 110 miles per hour.

The body can create huge speed without the complicated sequence we’d been trying to copy. Next practice session, my friend changed his backswing, stepped up and hit driver more than 350 yards. We knew we had found something.

From a swing to a system

The movement went through several names. None of them were the final answer, because what we found wasn’t just another swing.

It’s built on one idea: simplify the movement so you don’t need countless hours of timing and sequencing practice. A stable axis, a fused motion back to the ball, and the rear side delivering the strike.

The day AI joined the conversation

I hadn’t swung a club in months. I played a Donald Ross course with my oldest son, who thought I might be a little crazy. I broke par.

He had an AI listening while I explained. Its read matched what we’d felt: the more moving parts, the more chances for something to go wrong.

The timing problem

The conventional swing clearly works. The best players prove it every week. The real question is whether that complexity is necessary for the average golfer.

It’s like a saxophone. You build coordination through endless repetition, and when you stop playing, it fades. We believe much of golf’s difficulty comes from the same thing. So we asked: what if you removed the timing requirement?

The fused motion

Instead of coordinating a series of separate movements, you learn one connected movement. Body mass stays stable. The axis stays stable. The club loads, then releases back to the ball.

Five simple words

Because the movement is simple, your whole swing reduces to five thoughts.

Then make contact. That’s it.

One movement, putter through the bag

Putting, wedges, irons or driver: the setup and movement stay the same. Weight distribution stays the same. Only ball position and stance width change.

One setup. One grip. One movement. You aren’t rebuilding your swing every time you change clubs.

What the players on TV already have

Tour players don’t have swing thoughts over the ball. They’ve practiced so much that they just get ready, look at the target and swing.

The pros get simplicity from enormous amounts of practice. This system aims to give you simplicity through the movement itself.

For the golfer with a job, a family and a life

The average golfer isn’t going to hit thousands of balls a day, live in the gym and stretch for hours. But they want what Tour players have: stepping up without the noise and just hitting the shot.

If someone gave this system the dedication Tour players give their games, I believe it could produce scores in the low 60s, maybe even the high 50s. That’s not a promise. The real point: you shouldn’t need Tour-level practice to play good golf.

This isn’t about reinventing golf

The industry hasn’t been lying to you, and the world’s best players obviously know how to swing. We’re saying something simpler: there may be an easier way.

I built this because I wanted to keep playing great golf without spending my life practicing. It isn’t just a swing. It’s a complete system for learning the game.