Hi!. I am Richard Fauquet.
I am 45 and I play golf since 2007. I was born in North of France and practice a lot of sports, sometimes at Regional level: tennis, basket-ball, archery, spearfishing and CrossFit. I discovered golf quite late because there was no golf course close to my parents’ home. And at this period, it was not as accessible as it is today.
My very first contact with golf was when I was 6. A brand-new sporting goods supermarket opened up in my town and while I was visiting it with my parents, I stared at a golf bag, full of shiny irons. I was around the height of the bag at this time (now I am 6’3) but I remember I wonder how it was possible to throw a golf ball with those strange instruments. And why we need so many!!
Years later, I started golf and as many of us, at the very first solid good hit, I was hooked! It is a consuming passion and I spent my week-end for practicing and playing golf. As I became friend with the clubhouse manager, I had also the opportunity to play every evening on the golf course during summer.
At this period, I trained a lot, learning everything I could in books, DVDs and private lessons. Of course, I improved, but everything I tested was not efficient or stable, despite it was the “must”! Also, I started to feel pain in my lower back… I thought I was too lazy and trained more. After a while and more pain, I decided to invest in a full set of custom-fitted clubs in 2008 ($1500). It was an improvement, decreasing a bit my lower back pain. With that new equipment, I trained more and more, taking a lot of lessons and studying what we can call “the academic swing” (as taught by David Leadbetter, Simon Holmes, etc.). Anytime I tested new tips, it was an improvement… just for few days! And soon it stopped working. Four months later, during a practice range session, as I was hitting a solid drive, I felt my back cut in half. I fell down on my knees because of the pain: large muscular tear. I went back home (don’t remember how) and it took me approx. one year to recover completely.
Honestly, I was ready to give up, even if I was in love with this game. Then I took a new clubfitting session with a well-known clubfitter, Jean-Michel Queva, using a new method: the moving profiles method. Being very analytical, I was skeptical at the beginning. Jean-Michel told me that my clubs were not at all adapted to my profile and that I should also learn my own way to swing, my personal swing! He gave me some advices that I put into action on the practice range, while testing with him the clubs he just finished for me. It was a revelation!!! Easiness, pleasure, consistency and many more positive feelings. That single practice range session brought me back to golf for life. It is a very powerful method, suitable to anybody and especially effective if you start golf late, as I did. The moving profiles approach respects your physiology and your personality.
I took tons of lessons with two golf instructors. One is an ex European Tour Pro player and the other is a PGA instructor with amazing results with his junior teams. They have been trained to teach this approach and it was like if I discovered a new room at home. Over the years, I spent thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to learn this method in several training courses and many personal lessons. Today I am desperate to see that it is not much more used and/or taught. It is time to share it using all the digital tools we all use today.