TPI, the Titleist Performance Institute, is the global leader in golf performance education. Eighteen of the last 20 major championships were won by players advised by a TPI Certified Expert.

TPI's core insight is this: there is no single “correct” golf swing. There is only the most efficient swing for your body. The TPI assessment, a 16-point movement screen evaluating the hips, thoracic spine, shoulders, and core, identifies exactly how your body moves and where it is limiting your performance.

Dr. Christopher Burden holds the TPI Golf 2 certification, the advanced credential built for applying TPI's biomechanics methodology to real assessment and treatment, alongside TPI Level 1. This is the methodology at the center of every Axis program.

This is the right question and it's exactly what Axis is built for.

Swing lessons address mechanics. Launch monitor fittings address equipment. Neither addresses the body producing the swing. If your hip movement is restricted, you will have decreased thoracic spine rotation. If you’re lacking shoulder mobility, your backswing will be limited and no instruction or equipment change will solve these problems.

The Axis assessment goes upstream of the swing, to the physical system driving it. Most golfers who come to us have invested heavily in lessons and equipment and hit a wall. The wall is almost always physical. That's where we work, and unlike instruction built around a standardized swing model, the program we build is around the swing you already have, refined, not rebuilt.

No. The majority of Axis clients are healthy, active golfers who want to perform better — not patients recovering from injury.

Chiropractic care and soft tissue treatment at Axis are performance tools, not pain management. They are used to remove the physical restrictions limiting your rotation, your power, and your swing consistency. You do not need to be hurting to benefit from them.

Axis Golf Lab works with golfers at every stage — from those just getting serious about the game to competitive players chasing their lowest scores.

What matters is not your current handicap or even if you have one at all. What matters is that you are committed to genuine improvement and want a structured, science-backed path to get there. The assessment and program are built around your body and your current game, regardless of where you are starting.

For golfers new to the game who want to build correct movement patterns from the start, the Axis system is particularly valuable — it is far easier to encode a good swing than to undo years of compensations later.

Every session at Axis Golf Lab is one-on-one with Dr. Burden. There are no group lessons, no shared bays, no waiting. The studio is private by design — a single simulator bay, one client at a time.

For golfers who have felt self-conscious or discouraged in group lesson environments, this is the environment that changes that experience entirely.

Most clients notice meaningful changes in how their body moves within the first two to three weeks. Swing improvements that show up consistently on the course typically follow by weeks four through six of the 8-Week Program.

The honest answer is that results depend on your starting point, your consistency between sessions, and how your body responds to training. What we can tell you is that every program includes simulator-based measurement at the start and throughout — so progress is tracked with real data, not impressions.

The assessment and training system we build for you doesn't disappear when the program ends. Most clients continue with maintenance sessions, additional program blocks, or ongoing chiropractic care to sustain and build on what they've developed.

Dr. Burden will make a specific recommendation based on your progress and goals at the conclusion of your program. There is no generic answer, it depends on where you started, where you are, and where you want to go.

Yes. Dr. Burden continues to see chiropractic patients at Axis Golf Lab alongside the golf performance programs.

Every chiropractic visit is 30 minutes with Dr. Burden. Depending on what your body needs, a session may include spinal manipulation to restore joint motion and neurological function, myofascial release to break down fascial restrictions and soft tissue adhesions, or trigger point therapy to address the muscle knots that refer pain into the neck, shoulders, and arms.

Appointments are $95.

Schedule a Chiropractic Visit

Axis Golf Lab is located at 9420 Willeo Road, Suite 205, Roswell, Georgia — in the heart of North Atlanta's golf community. The studio is a private, single-bay facility designed exclusively for one-on-one training with no group lessons or shared bays.

Every Axis program begins with an Initial Performance Evaluation — a 90-minute session with Dr. Burden that includes the full TPI movement assessment, simulator-based swing analysis, and physical screening.

Investment: $250 — credited toward your program if you enroll in the 4-Week Jumpstart or 8-Week Golf Performance Program within 30 days.

This evaluation gives you the most complete picture of your golf performance you have ever had and the foundation for everything that follows.

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