About
Meet Amy.
Founder of Stance. Golfer since age five. Coach by training and by temperament.
Amy has been a golfer since she was five. She played through high school and has spent a lifetime around courses where a woman with a bag still gets asked if she is with someone. Stance is her answer to that.
Her coaching starts with movement because her training does. She has been a Certified Pilates Instructor since 2018 and is TPI Level 1 certified, with a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and a background coaching people through change in health and mental health settings. A golf swing is a movement problem and a confidence problem. She coaches both.
The method comes from her own game. She found great teachers over the years, but rarely did any of it connect back to the body, and even more rare was a coach who specifically understood the female body. Golf professionals taught the swing, and taught it in bodies built like men’s. Movement professionals taught the body and never connected it to the swing. Stance is the practice she built to live in the empty intersection.
I've always been a very active person who enjoyed staying fit. It never made sense to me that I could work so hard in the gym, yet one shot swung too hard could tweak my back. It wasn't until I started to understand the connections between mobility, stability and strength, and how that mapped onto the golf swing, that things really clicked for me and I started to feel more ownership over my game. I started training for my golf swing, rather than trying to undo my latest round in the gym.
Credentials
The training behind the coaching.
- Certified Pilates Instructor, 2018
- Titleist Performance Institute, Level 1 certified
- Master’s in Counseling Psychology
- Background in health and mental health coaching
- First Tee volunteer
How she coaches
Real information about your own body
Whether you have played for thirty years or thirty days, the session starts the same way: with respect for the golfer in front of her. You get an assessment, a plan built from it, and coaching focused on helping you deepen your understanding of your body. The goal is for this to translate to the course. You know which stretches are a must pre-round, and can self-diagnose why your low back is feeling a bit sore after the 9th hole.
The stand
Equal footing, spelled out.
Stance is a champion for women in golf. We believe every woman should feel welcome on the course, which means that every touchpoint for women needs to signal equal footing. From coaching built for women's bodies, to language that affirms the modern game of golf (can we all agree that they're called the forward tees?)
The stand reaches past language. For generations the course has been a networking venue with a scorecard, and the network belonged to men. Stance is built toward fairways that carry women’s careers and women’s friendships the same way. Equal access to the game, and to everything the game opens.
Work with Amy.
The initial session is a full movement assessment. It starts where you are.
After you book, you’ll get a short intake form to complete.