Data most golfers never see.
GEARS 3D. Jacobs 3D. Full biomechanics. Force plates. The same tools that train tour players — measuring things your last coach didn’t know to look for.
Movement 3 Golf · Highland Park, IL
You’ve practiced.You’ve watched the videos.You’ve had lessons.Something still doesn’t work.
Movement 3 Golf is instruction for golfers who’ve stopped chasing tips and started asking why.
- GOLF Top 100
- Golf Digest Best Teacher in State: IL
- 6+ Tour Players Coached
- 8x IL PGA Teacher of the Year Nominee
- 20+ Years Coaching
What we believe
Every golfer moves differently. That’s human variation.
Golf has become an industry of templates. One-size-fits-all instruction. Generic advice. Band-aids. Surface-level fixes. People telling golfers do this without first asking why are you doing that in the first place?
The real villain isn’t a slice or a hook. It’s guesswork. It’s being coached for a swing you don’t have instead of the body you do.
The tools we use — GEARS 3D, TrackMan, Jacobs 3D, force plates — aren’t the destination. They’re the language we use to translate what your body is already telling us. The point isn’t the data. The point is understanding.
Because when golfers truly understand themselves, they stop chasing someone else’s swing and start discovering their own. That’s how lasting performance is built.
Free from Rick
A free PDF and drill.Step inside The Studio.
Practical, science-backed instruction from a GOLF Top 100 Teacher — the first chapter of The Golfer’s Tools plus a drill you can use this week. No gimmicks.
No spam — just the PDF, the drill, and the occasional note from the studio.
A GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America, a Golf Digest Best Teacher in Illinois, and an 8× Illinois PGA Teacher of the Year Nominee.
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The M3G Approach
Three steps.One golfer.You.
Our method is repeatable. Your plan isn’t. That’s the point.
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Discover the why
Every relationship starts here. A full biomechanical capture with GEARS 3D, a physical screen for structural limitations, an equipment check, and a launch monitor session. By the end, we know what your body, your gear, and your ball flight are telling us — and, more importantly, why. Nothing guessed. Nothing skipped.
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Build your plan
With that picture in hand, we build a custom practice and training program tailored to your body, your goals, and the life you actually have outside of golf. Not a template. Not someone else’s swing. A plan built around you.
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Own your swing
The work isn’t done when you leave the studio — it’s tracked. We reassess at set intervals with the same tools we used on day one, so progress isn’t a feeling — it’s data you can see. Every session benchmarked against the version of you that walked in.
The guide’s tools
The instruments behind the interpretation.
An interpreter, not a mechanic.
20+ years of full-time coaching, a dozen articles for GOLF Magazine, and a book on the tools of the trade. The job isn’t to fix you. It’s to translate what your body is already saying.
A studio built to know you.
The only studio in the Midwest with the full stack: GEARS 3D, Foresight GCQuad, TrackMan, Jacobs 3D, SAM PuttLab, and True Spec clubfitting. Every one of them exists to answer why.
In the Studio
Every lesson begins with what your body is actually doing — then makes it simple enough to feel.
GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America
Rick Silva
Managing Director — M3G | Movement3Golf
Rick Silva is one of the most technologically advanced golf instructors in America. As a GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher, a Golf Digest Best Teacher in Illinois, and an 8-time Illinois PGA Teacher of the Year nominee, Rick combines cutting-edge 3D biomechanics with personalized coaching to deliver results no traditional lesson can match.
Author of The Golfer’s Tools: A Practical Guide to Swing Science, Rick’s approach is rooted in understanding how YOUR body moves — then building a custom improvement plan around it.
- GOLF Top 100 Teacher
- Golf Digest Best in State
- 8x IL PGA Teacher of the Year Nominee
- Jacobs 3D Advisory
- TPI Certified
- Advisor: Foresight Sports
- Advisor: GEARS Golf
Programs & Pricing
Find the right pathto better golf
Every player starts with a complete picture. Most begin with the GEARS 3D evaluation, then continue through a membership built around their goals.
Required First Visit
Start Here
GEARS 3D Optical Tour Capture
A full optical motion-capture evaluation — the same data tour players use — to map exactly what your swing is doing and what to work on first.
$750
Book Evaluation
À La Carte Session
$350 / 1 hour
One-on-one coaching with the full studio stack. Ideal for a tune-up or a single focus.
- 1 hour, one-on-one
- Full launch monitor data
- Take-home notes
PAR Membership
$999 / month
Steady, structured improvement with consistent coaching touchpoints all year.
- 4 coaching hours monthly
- Ongoing data tracking
- Custom practice plans
BIRDIE Membership
$1,900 / month
Our most popular path for committed players pursuing real, measurable gains.
- 8 coaching hours monthly
- Priority scheduling
- Season-long roadmap
TOUR Membership
$35,000 / year
The complete, fully-bespoke program for elite and aspiring tour-level players.
- Unlimited access & support
- On-site & remote coaching
- Highly limited roster
Online Coaching available upon request · Corporate & Group Functions by inquiry — get in touch.
The Science & The Studio
Seeing what the human eye can’t.
Movement 3 Golf is one of only three Jacobs 3D installations in the country. Our GEARS system analyzes 600+ images per swing to model the true forces and torques driving your motion — turning instinct into evidence.
- GEARS 3D
- Foresight GCQuad
- TrackMan
- Jacobs 3D
- SAM PuttLab
- True Spec Golf
Testimonials
People are talking
What players and the press are saying.
Getting put through the paces by Rick Silva and his staff wasn’t so much a golf lesson as it was an EKG that told you very clearly what you need to work on to improve your game. As a writer for Golfweek, I have been to every ‘big name’ expert on the planet and one thing is for sure, Rick is a big player in a very small pond.
“From the moment we started working together my game improved. I had given up on gaining speed when I came to see you. I now swing it 8 mph faster and hit it further and straighter than I ever have. Your ability to take complicated information and make it easy to understand has been huge! The combination of distance and accuracy at this stage in life has allowed me to win again and compete at a high level in the U.S. Mid-Am two years in a row. Thank you!”
“Just finished an AMAZING golf lesson with Rick Silva. Mind blown! The BEST golf lesson I’ve ever taken. So psyched to get some practice in and start playing better. So much to learn from GEARS and a teacher who truly understands the data.”
“Rick Silva is the Michael Schumacher of golf instructors.”
“Rick Silva, someone you’ll be hearing a lot more from in the coming months and years.” — Golf Digest
The Book
The Golfer’s Tools
A Practical Guide to Swing Science · with Michael Jacobs
The 2025 best-seller that turns elite biomechanics into a toolkit any golfer can use. Rick and Michael Jacobs demystify the forces behind a great swing — and hand you the drills and thinking to coach yourself.
- Biomechanics, demystified
- Drills that target the right cause, not the symptom
- How to use GEARS-style data for self-coaching
- Build your own practice plan
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Free Download
Peek inside the Toolbox.
A free PDF from Rick — the opening chapter of The Golfer’s Tools plus a studio-tested drill. The same science Rick uses with GEARS, Jacobs 3D, and his tour players, translated into something you can apply on the range this week.
No spam. Just the breakdown, the drill, and the occasional note from the studio.
Visit / Contact
Highland Park, IL — open year-round.
An indoor studio built for Chicago golf, twelve months a year. Reach out to book or to ask about online and corporate coaching.
- Studio
- DINX Social Club
1931 Skokie Valley Rd
Highland Park, IL 60035 - Phone
- 480.212.6548
- Hours
- By appointment · Open year-round