Paul calls it GAIM — the work of a swing that travels with you off the practice tee. Four letters that take a season to feel.
On the range, the swing is honest. The lie is flat. The yardage is known. The ball sits up. Every miss is information; nothing is on the card.
On the first tee, the same body holds the same club, and a different player swings it. You know the feeling. The grip tightens. The tempo quickens. The work of an entire summer disappears into a single uphill lie at 187 yards.
You've taken lessons. You've watched the videos. You've fixed the grip, fixed the takeaway, fixed the follow-through. And still the gap — between what you can do and what you actually do — refuses to close.
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The discipline of carrying a swing's alignment through motion — not at setup, not in still photos, but at the half-second between intention and impact, when most golfers leave their range game behind.
The motion is the path. GAIM is about the motion — how alignment lives through the swing, not just at setup.
Most players rehearse positions. GAIM rehearses transitions. That's what survives the first tee.
That is as much as can be written. The rest is felt — at a tee, with a 7-iron, watching it leave the face.
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Paul teaches the player who has already taken lessons — the one whose range swing has outgrown their scorecard, and who is honest enough to admit it.
Born and raised in Northeast Ohio. Bowling Green State University, business marketing, class of 1975. PGA membership after college, then several seasons of professional play before opening his own teaching center in 1983.
Forty-two years later, Paul still spends most days at a tee line. He has written instruction for Ohio Golfer, contributed to Golf Magazine, and watched his Single-Plane schools turn up in regional pages of Time, Newsweek, and US News. He's coached high-school teams, prepared juniors for scholarship play, and consulted area coaches — but the work he's known for is the one he does one player at a time.
He is not a position-by-position instructor. He is a motion-by-motion one.
He doesn't fix your swing. He teaches you how to find it.
There is no booking page. No pricing grid. No form to fill out. Paul prefers to begin with a conversation — about your game, your history, and what you'd like to fix this season.
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