Movement before mechanics.
The body dictates the swing. Not the other way around. Skip that step and you’re coaching a fantasy.
Meet Rick Silva
For twenty years,I watched good golfersget worse from good advice.Advice built for someone else.
Movement 3 Golf is what I built to fix that. Class A PGA Professional. GOLF Top 100 Teacher. The coach who asks why before what.
The Origin
Twenty years in. Still asking why.
For two decades, I watched good golfers get worse from good advice. Not from bad instructors — from good ones, teaching swings that worked for someone else’s body. Not the body in front of them.
That’s when I stopped looking at the swing and started looking at the swinger.
Coaching shouldn’t ask you to fit the method. The method should fit you.
Movement 3 Golf is the studio built around that idea — a facility in Highland Park where every player gets the same tools that train tour players, applied to the body they actually have. GEARS 3D, Jacobs 3D, TrackMan, force plates. Not because the technology is impressive. Because it’s the only honest way to answer why.
The tools aren’t the coaching. I am. The tools just let me be a better guide.
What we believe
Three convictions.
Everything at M3G comes back to these. No exceptions.
Data over opinion.
GEARS 3D, Jacobs 3D, TrackMan, force plates. Evidence, not eyeballing. Every change has a number behind it.
The coach is the interpreter.
Tools don’t teach. People do. The technology exists to make me a better guide — not to replace the guide.
See what the human eye can’t.
The Evidence
Recognized by the people who watch the people who teach.
The recognitions below come from the publications, organizations, and players who know the work best — not from marketing.
GOLF Magazine
Top 100 Teachers in America 2026–27
Golf Digest
Best Teachers in Every State 2026–27 (Illinois)
Illinois PGA
Teacher of the Year Nominee — 8 times
Plugged In Golf · Matt Saternus
“Best golf lesson I’ve ever had.”
Golfweek · Jeff Rude
“Rick is a big player in a very small pond.”
Industry Advisor
Foresight Sports, GEARS Golf
Certified
Jacobs 3D, TPI, SAM PuttLab, TrackMan University
PGA
Class A Professional · 20+ Years
Published
Author, “The Golfer’s Tools: A Practical Guide to Swing Science”
Published Work
Published work.
In print.
Rick’s instruction and analysis appear regularly across the publications that set the standard in golf.
GOLF Magazine
GOLF Magazine’s 2026–27 Top 100 Teachers: Hall of Fame inductees
ReadGOLF Magazine
Viktor Hovland’s double-pump swing, explained
ReadGolf Digest
How Tiger Woods adapted to his body is a lesson for the rest of us
ReadGolf Digest
Best Teachers In Every State 2026–27
ReadPlugged In Golf
The Best Golf Lesson I’ve Ever Had
ReadPlugged In Golf
How I Gained Over 10 MPH of Club Speed in One Lesson
ReadInside the Studio
The same technology that trains tour players.
Movement 3 Golf is one of the most technologically advanced golf studios in the country. Built for real measurement and rigorous methodology, the studio puts every tool a world-class teaching pro could need — and the data they generate — to work for every M3G player, regardless of level.
GEARS Golf
Full-body 3D optical motion capture. Tour-level swing data, in your studio session.
TrackMan
Industry-standard ball flight and club delivery tracking.
Foresight GCQuad
Precision launch monitor for ball and club data on every shot.
Jacobs 3D
Forces, torques, and kinematics — the most advanced biomechanical model in golf.
SAM PuttLab
Ultrasound-based putting analysis used by tour players and elite coaches.
True Spec Clubfitting
Brand-independent fitting integrated into coaching.
Who Rick Coaches
From scratch golfers to tour players.
Rick coaches a deliberately wide range — from juniors and brand-new golfers to mid-amateurs chasing club championships to elite players competing on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour. The method scales. What changes between a 25-handicap and a tour player isn’t the philosophy — it’s the precision of the questions and the speed of the iterations.
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Tour & Korn Ferry Pros
6+ players coached at the highest level.
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Elite Mid-Ams
Multiple U.S. Mid-Am qualifiers.
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Club Champions & Aspiring Pros
Year-over-year improvement, documented.
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Adult Improvers
The largest M3G group. Measured progress, every visit.
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Juniors & Beginners
Built around how their bodies move now — and how they’ll grow.
The Toolbox, in print
The Golfer’s Tools.
A Practical Guide to Swing Science.
The same instruction I give in the studio — translated for the golfer who wants to understand their own game. Co-written with Michael Jacobs, built around the science we use every day at M3G.
Next Step
Curious what your bodyis actually doing?Come see.
The fastest way to understand the M3G method is to experience it. Book a session — or come tour the studio first.