Bill Fedder, son of two golf pros, has played golf all of his life. Recently, in the 2022 PGA Professional Championship, he hit a

on his final hole of the championship. He works at The Club at Glenmore as Director of Instruction and leads The Club’s Rotella Academy of Excellence – a high-performance junior golf academy. He has begun introducing his students to Valor and taking them through the experience.

Before Valor, Bill would use a TrackMan and cameras to understand his athletes’ motion. When asked what Valor added to his coaching, Bill said that the TrackMan measures the club and the ball, but Valor can measure how the body is moving – and to him, this made all the difference.

“It’s super important because previously golf pros have used cameras [to capture movement]. Now, with Valor, I can look at everything – any view that I could possibly want – which is certainly helpful for the instructor but potentially more impactful for the learner,” said Bill. By escaping the limits of camera frames, Bill and his athletes can explore views never looked at in golf before.

In his lessons, he enjoys looking at the graphs displayed on Valor’s software and the individual data points to learn more about an athlete’s swing. He recognizes that his students most likely do not understand those numbers, so instead, he shows them the animation of themselves. The animation shows students both how they are currently moving and the progress they are making. To them, it serves as validation for all of their hard work.

In golf, there is one thing that matters: the contact between the club and the ball. The body controls the club, so every motion preceding that contact is extremely important to determine where the ball will go. Bill works with his students to correct their movement and maximize the efficiency of their swing.

“My goal of using Valor is to speed up the learning process for the student. My goal is to help my players reach their goals, and the quicker they can reach their goals, the better,” said Bill.

Valor is a valuable resource for coaches and athletes alike to accelerate results. It records movement instantly, displays poor motion, and tracks progress over time. To use Valor is to improve.