Michael Jacobs
Chief Executive Officer
Michael was voted by his peers as one of the 10 Best Teachers in America by Golf Digest, and he is also one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teachers in America, a Golf Digest Best Young Teacher in America and Golf Digest Best Teacher in New York State. The PGA of America has recognized him as the 2012 Metropolitan Section PGA Teacher of the Year and the 2020 Horton Smith Award winner for his contributions toward educating other golf professionals. Michael was the keynote speaker at the 2017 PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit of America, Britain and Finland.
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He is the only golf instructor to have designed his own research software, which measures the forces and torques at work in a golf swing. He is the author of the Elements of the Swing, Swing Tips You Should Forget, and his latest release, The Science of the Swing. Michael has also published several academic papers with Dr. Nesbit, and is working on a comprehensive history of the golf swing.
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For the past 26 years, Michael Jacobs has been teaching golf at Rock Hill Golf Club in his home state of New York. Located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island, Rock Hill is an excellent venue for world class golf instruction. In 2013, Michael built his 3D research studio with the optical 3D motion capture that ultimately led to the development of Jacobs 3D.
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Michael’s articles regularly appear in Golf Digest and Golf Magazine—including ground-breaking ones in field of golf biomechanics. With several features in both magazines and multiple premium video series for Golf Digest, Michael has reached a worldwide audience and changed the way that golf swings are analyzed.
Dr. Steven Nesbit
Chief Technology Officer
Over the past 34 years, Lafayette College Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus Dr. Steven Nesbit has conducted the most influential research in the history of our sport. For the USGA, he conducted research on equipment, the actions that the golfer applies to the club during a swing and a full biomechanics study on the human body. Dr. Nesbit's research has shaped the rules of the game and the understanding of how the golfer moves the club and body in a swing. After his work with the USGA, he went on to study other sports like baseball and tennis.
Other than a few “student interest” research papers, Dr. Nesbit's work was dormant beyond published papers and unpublished studies. In 2010, Michael Jacobs met Steve and they discussed and studied his prior research—and he was very intrigued to see a dedicated golf pro applying his research papers. Steve’s interest in golf was reinvigorated in 2014 and they decided to launch a new layer of research together with the commission of the Jacobs 3D golf swing analysis system.