Michael Jacobs
Voted as the 8th Best Golf Teacher in America by his peers in Golf Digest 2024/25
2025 PGA National Award Winner for Education
“Michael brings a lot of knowledge, but he’s also willing to listen and collaborate. As much as my golf and swing has improved with him, I value his enthusiasm for the game of golf”
Padraig Harrington
2024 World Golf Hall of Fame
3-time Major Champion
“Michael Jacobs isn’t just giving a better golf lesson. He’s making a fundamental contribution to the advancement of teaching. He has helped me restore my golf swing of the past”
Steve Elkington
1995 PGA Champion 1991 & 1997 Players Champion
“I know what I feel and believe about the swing. Michael actually knows the math, and knows how to help teachers explain it. He’s given me really powerful tools to share the why behind what I do more effectively with players.”
Stan Utley
PGA Tour Winner & Top 50 Teacher
“Michael Jacobs is doing important work that will ultimately make every teacher better at helping players. He’s moving the game forward.”
Mark Blackburn
2020 PGA Teacher of the Year
Golf Digest No. 1 Teacher
“You won’t find an elite teacher more generous with his time and knowledge than Michael Jacobs. He’s a model I point to when I’m talking to young pros.”
Tony Ruggiero
Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher
Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher
“Most who invest what Michael has in something are reluctant to share all of what they’ve spent so long learning. Michael is the opposite. He’s always willing to help me and others better their craft.”
Jason Guss
3-time Michigan PGA Teacher of the Year
Dr. Steven Nesbit
Chief Technology Officer - Jacobs 3D
Dr. Steven Nesbit, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College, spent 30 years devoted to the study of biomechanics. He is the designer of the USGA's original golf swing study that determined the contributions of the player and club to driving distance, the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers and the Chief Technology Officer of Jacobs 3D since 2013. Dr. Nesbit and Michael Jacobs work full-time on the study of human movement and continue to publish their research.
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The human body is an incredible, ever-changing system, and imposing arbitrary movement requirements doesn’t do it justice. The only way to get the most out of your body is to understand what you can do. Michael Jacobs operates one of the most sophisticated motion analysis studios in the world, combining university-grade technology with 25 years of experience teaching elite athletes and instructors how to diagnose and improve motion inefficiency. You can swing faster and more reliably, and do it while putting less stress on your muscles and joints—and you can teach others how to do it, too. The proof is in the results. Padraig Harrington swings faster now as a senior than he did at 35—and he led the PGA Tour Champions in distance in 2022 at 309 yards.