Every year you play, your fairway woods and hybrids matter a little more. In six weeks, Todd Graves and Tim Graves, PGA, make them the two clubs you want in your hands — so long holes and long courses stop being something you dread.
Six weeks from now, here is what changes
Own it for $699 — or get it free when you move up to Level 4
Todd Graves
Author of The Single Plane Golf Swing. Ten years standing next to Moe Norman. Teaches the instruction weeks, 2–4.
Tim Graves, PGA
Callaway Master Professional. Twenty-five years of club fitting. Opens the class in Week 1, closes it on the course in Weeks 5–6.
Most golfers give away 20–30% of their potential distance with these two clubs
Not because they're not strong enough. Because they're not striking them correctly — and nobody has ever shown them the difference.
— Tim Graves, PGA, from twenty-five years of fittings and lessons
"One of the most common questions we get — multiple times a week, for twenty-five years — is when do I hit a hybrid and when do I hit an iron? Nobody has ever sat down and answered it properly. That's what these six weeks are."
— TIM GRAVES, PGA · Callaway Master Professional
“The SPU is very focused, very specific, and there's a great deal of precision in the instruction. It's like being lost and someone shows you the way.”
Dear fellow golfer,
A hybrid was designed to be forgiving. Wider sole, lower center of gravity, built specifically to rescue golfers from long irons that had become impossible to hit. On paper it is one of the easiest clubs ever made.
So why is it sitting in your bag untouched?
Because nobody ever told you it is a long-iron replacement — and you've been playing it like a fairway wood. That one misunderstanding is responsible for more thin hybrids, more topped 3-woods and more lay-ups than anything else in golf.
Which brings us to the club in your bag you've stopped trusting.
Maybe it's the 3-wood off the deck. Maybe it's the 4-hybrid you bought because a long iron was impossible, and now the hybrid is impossible too. You stand over a 200-yard shot, look in the bag, and you already know how it's going to go — so you lay up with a 7-iron and take your bogey.
That's not a swing problem. Here's what it actually is:
You're playing them the same way. A hybrid is a long-iron replacement — it wants a descending strike and a divot. A fairway wood wants a sweep. Most golfers use one motion for both, so one of them is always wrong.
Your ball position is guessed, not built. A 3-hybrid and a 7-hybrid do not sit in the same place. Long hybrids belong in the zone with a wider stance. Short hybrids play from iron position. Get that backwards and you'll compensate for the rest of your life.
Your clubs may not fit. Most off-the-rack hybrids are built too upright for a Single Plane golfer. That's a heel-digging, pull-hooking machine — and no amount of practice fixes an equipment problem.
Nobody ever taught you when to use them. Rough. Fairway bunker. Into the wind. Under a tree. Into the grain around the green. There are right answers to all of these, and almost no golfer knows them.
Here's the part that should make you a little angry: this is the widest gap in the average golfer's bag, and it sits on the exact shots that decide your score. Long par 3s. Second shots into par 5s. Tight driving holes. The 200-yard approach.
Fix these two clubs and you don't just hit better shots — you get holes back that you've been giving away for years.
“Consistency was probably my biggest struggle. I had taken lessons in the past. I was stubbing the ball behind it. I was blading the ball over the green.”
Fat one, thin the next. That's not two problems — that's one problem, and it has a name. It's called not knowing where the bottom of your swing is. Todd spends a full week on it.
The thing nobody told you
Here is the entire class in one idea. A fairway wood and a hybrid look similar, sit next to each other in the bag, and cover similar distances — so every golfer assumes they're hit the same way.
They are not. They are opposites.
Fairway wood
Wide, shallow, ball forward. The sole is designed to glide along the turf. Try to hit down on it and you'll dig, or bail out and top it.
Hybrid
It's a long-iron replacement. Descending strike, ball back of the wood position, and yes — a divot after the ball. Sweep it and you'll thin it every time.
That's it. That's the misunderstanding costing most golfers 20–30% of their distance on these clubs — one motion applied to two clubs that want opposite things. Whichever one you default to, half your long game is wrong and you've never known which half.
Todd spends three weeks making both strikes automatic. Tim spends two more showing you when to use each one. Everything else on this page is detail.
Why this gets more important, not less
Here's something Tim Graves, PGA, says to almost every student over fifty who walks into the academy: as we get older, these clubs become more and more important.
Think about what actually happens. You lose a few yards off the tee — not dramatically, just quietly, a little each season. The par 4 you used to reach with a 7-iron now needs a 5. The one that needed a 5-iron now needs something you don't have a good answer for.
Your long irons went first. They're the hardest clubs in the bag to hit well and the first ones a slowing swing stops cooperating with. So they came out of the bag — and they got replaced with hybrids and higher-lofted woods that nobody ever taught you how to use.
Which means the exact clubs you now depend on most are the ones you understand least.
That's the whole problem in one sentence. And it doesn't fix itself — it gets worse every season you wait, because every season these clubs come out of the bag a little more often.
And here's the part that should sting a little.
The yards age takes, you don't get back. But the 20–30% you're losing to a poor strike? That's not gone. That's sitting there, this season, waiting for someone to show you what you're doing wrong. On a hybrid you currently hit 170, that's thirty-plus yards you already own and haven't been able to reach.
Get them right and the golf course shrinks. Long par 3s stop being automatic bogeys. You stop steering around the long holes. You stop dreading the courses that used to be fun. That's the whole point of the six weeks — maximum distance, and maximum scoring, out of the clubs you're already carrying.
This is a guided Single Plane University class — not a video library you binge and forget. It runs on a schedule: three modules delivered across each week, a weekly call to action where you send video in for your coach to review, and one live Zoom Q&A every week with Tim and Todd.
And it runs in three distinct phases — in this order, on purpose:
Before you swing anything, you find out what these clubs actually are — the real difference between a fairway wood and a hybrid, and which of them you personally should be carrying. Most golfers have never been told, and half of them are carrying the wrong ones.
Three weeks of instruction. Setup, ball position, procedure, low point, and the two different strikes these clubs require. This is where the topped 3-wood and the fat hybrid go away.
Out on the golf course. Not just clean lies in the middle of the fairway — off the tee, out of fairway bunkers, from low, mid and high rough, working the ball high and low, and yes, chipping with them.
The live Zoom day moves week to week around Tim's teaching schedule — you'll get the time in advance, and every call is recorded if you cannot make it live.
“Videos are one thing, YouTube is one thing, people telling you what to do is one thing, but if you want to get better, you have to be on a program where you're accountable.”
Fundamentals → Contact → Consistency → Application → Shotmaking → Performance. Nothing is skipped and nothing is out of order.
Theme: The Clubs Themselves
Call to action: Send in your current bag makeup and your gapping
Theme: Instruction Begins
Call to action: Face-on and down-the-line setup video
Theme: Learning to Strike It Clean
Call to action: Contact session video — one wood, one hybrid
Theme: Repetition Creates Confidence
Call to action: Ball flight and distance control video
Theme: Putting Them In Play
Call to action: Rough and uneven lie video
Theme: Trust It And Play
Call to action: Full evaluation — one wood, one hybrid
The Final Challenge
Six weeks in, you don't get a certificate. You get tested — the same way we test students at the schools. Five events, scored, against the baseline you took in Week 1.
Contact Test
10 consecutive solid strikes
Accuracy Test
Hit designated fairway targets
Distance Test
Demonstrate your known yardages
Situational Test
Rough, tight lie, and recovery
On-Course Assessment
Apply both clubs across a 9-hole round
“Having equipment that wasn't fitted to me really affected my swing, which affected my confidence. It really wasn't that much fun playing golf with equipment that didn't fit, honestly.”
Bonus 1 — Equipment Optimization
Shaft fitting, loft gapping, adjustable hosels, and set composition. The lie-angle problem alone is worth the module for a Single Plane golfer.
Bonus 2 — Hybrid Scoring Secrets
Using hybrids around trouble and around the green, plus when conservative beats aggressive.
Bonus 3 — Fairway Woods Confidence Builder
The mental side: pre-shot routines, commitment, and rebuilding trust with a club that's burned you.
This is for you if
This is not for you if
We'd genuinely rather you sat this one out than took a Zoom seat you won't use. There are four more classes this year.
This is a class, not a course you own. It runs on a schedule with a start date and live calls. Modules land through the week and there's a call to action attached to each one. If you're not going to send video in, you'll get a fraction of the value — and you'll take a Zoom seat from a member who would have used it.
You may find out your clubs are wrong. If your hybrid's lie angle is fighting your Single Plane setup, we're going to tell you — and fixing it may cost money we don't get. We'd rather you know.
Some of you should be carrying fewer hybrids. Tim will say it plainly: if you can't make a divot, higher-lofted fairway woods may make this game easier than hybrids ever will. That's an honest answer, not a sales pitch.
The founding price is gone. During launch week, Level 3 members could take this class for $297. That window closed at midnight on August 19, as promised, and it will not reopen. The Level 3 price is now $699 — still $301 under what a non-member pays — and if you would rather not pay it, Door 2 below includes this class with Level 4 membership.
Enrollment closes August 30 — and the reps don't wait. You can join through Sunday, August 30 and start at Week 1, and your coach will meet you exactly where you are. The only thing you cannot get back is time: every week you wait is a week of coached video reviews and live Zooms with Todd and Tim you didn't use.
Class began Monday, August 17 · Enrollment closes midnight Sunday, August 30
Your two options
Let me lay this out plainly and then get out of your way.
A non-member pays $1,000 for this class. You're Level 3, so your price is $699.
But here's the thing I'd feel dishonest not telling you: one month of Level 4 costs $297. And at Level 4, this class isn't discounted. It's just included.
So the class on its own now costs more than a month of the membership that includes it. The only question on this page is what you get for your money.
Why the price moved
During launch week we let Level 3 members in for $297, and here's the honest reason: we want you to see what an SPU class is actually like. Describing a guided class doesn't work. Being in one does.
We run five of these a year, and the members who take one almost always take the next one. The hard part has never been keeping people — it's getting a Level 3 member to try the first one.
That founding window closed at midnight on August 19, as promised — deadlines only mean something if we keep them. The Level 3 price is now $699, still $301 under what a non-member pays. Enrollment closes at midnight on Sunday, August 30 — join before then, start at Week 1, and your coach meets you exactly where you are.
“I'm like at a fourth level where you have your private coach and you can submit videos. They matrix this into your age group and your handicap — and that was gold for me.”
Door 1 — Own the class
One time · nothing recurring
Six weeks from now: you know how to hit fairway woods and hybrids. That's a real win, and for a lot of golfers it's enough.
Discount applied at checkout
Door 2 — Get it free
$297/month
This class included · keep your grandfathered rate
Six weeks from now: you know how to hit them — and you still have a coach, the library, and the next class already paid for.
Don't like it? Drop back to your Level 3 price
If you're asking us which one —
We'd take Door 2, and it isn't close. A month of Level 4 is $297 — less than half of Door 1 — and Door 1 ends in six weeks while Door 2 doesn't.
And if we're wrong about that? You go straight back to your grandfathered Level 3 price. No questions, no penalty, and you keep the rate you've always had. The worst case is you took the class, kept it in your library, and walked away having paid less for the month than Door 1 would have cost you.
That's the whole pitch. There's no version of this where Door 2 costs you more than Door 1 for the same six weeks — so the only reason to pick Door 1 is if you're certain you'll never take another class from us. Some of you are, and that's a perfectly good answer.
Either door gets you in until enrollment closes on August 30 — you start at Week 1 with nothing missed. The class on its own is $699. Level 4 still is not.
Our guarantee
Most programs end on a date. This one ends on an outcome. Finish the six weeks, send in your videos, and if you still can't do these three things — your coach keeps working with you until you can, at no additional cost.
The only thing we ask is that you do the work — submit your weekly videos so your coach can actually see what's happening. We can't fix a swing we've never been shown. Do that, and we don't quit on you because a calendar ran out.
And what you are not risking
You will not lose your grandfathered price. This is the one that stops most Level 3 members, so let's kill it: move up, take the class, and if Level 4 isn't for you — tell us and we'll put you straight back on your grandfathered Level 3 rate. No questions asked. You are not trading away the price you've been protecting.
You are not going to lose the material. However you get in, the class stays in your Single Plane University Library. Your assessments and your Combine scores are yours to keep, and you can retake the class any time it runs.
You are not doing this alone. Every week has a call to action with a real coach reviewing your video. This is not a folder of videos you're left to interpret by yourself.
Three modules land across each week, on different days — not all at once. Each week has a call to action attached, where you send video in for your coach to review. And there's one live Q&A Zoom every week with Tim and Todd. The Zoom day moves week to week around Tim's teaching schedule; you'll get the time in advance.
The modules are short and you work them into practice you were already doing. The real commitment is the weekly call to action — filming a few swings and sending them in — plus the live Zoom if you can make it.
No — and that assumption is exactly what Week 1 and the equipment bonus are for. Part of this class is deciding what should be in your bag in the first place. Some members finish carrying more woods and fewer hybrids. Some the opposite. Both are wins.
No. You need a phone to film your two weekly videos, somewhere to hit balls, and a course to play your weekly challenges. That's it.
They're recorded and posted. But the seat cap exists because live is where the coaching happens — if you can make even half of them, make them.
The class on its own is $699; a month of Level 4 is $297 with the class included. So it comes down to what you want after the six weeks. Owning the class gets you this class. Moving up to Level 4 gets you this class plus a personal coach, every guided class we release, Single Plane 30 any month you want it, and the full SPU Library. And if Level 4 turns out not to be for you, we'll put you back on your grandfathered Level 3 price — no questions asked. You're not risking the rate you've been protecting.
No. At Level 4 the class isn't discounted, it's included — you pay the membership and nothing else. Don't buy the class first and then upgrade; just take Door 2.
Then we keep going. Finish the class, submit your videos, and if you still can't strike them repeatably, don't know your yardages, or don't know which club to play from a given lie — your coach keeps working with you until you do, at no additional cost. The class ends on an outcome, not a date.
It's the opposite — this matters more, not less. As you lose yards off the tee, long irons leave the bag and hybrids and woods take their place, so the clubs you depend on most become the ones you were never taught. And most golfers are giving away 20–30% of their distance on these clubs to a poor strike alone. Those yards aren't gone to age; they're recoverable this season.
Yes — until enrollment closes at midnight on Sunday, August 30. You get every module from Week 1, so nothing is missed. You'll be a little behind the group on the live Zooms, but the modules, the downloads and your coach's video reviews all work exactly the same, and your coach meets you at whatever week you're on.
You keep the class in the Single Plane University Library, along with your assessments and Combine scores. You can retake it any time it runs.
Every golfer has a distance where the round quietly goes sideways. For most of the people we teach, it's 180 to 230 yards — the exact gap fairway woods and hybrids were invented to cover, and the exact gap almost nobody has ever been properly taught.
Six weeks from now you can still be avoiding those clubs. Or you can know your two strikes, know your yardages, know your bag fits, and know which club comes out of the bag on a long par 3 into the wind — because you wrote it down.
Enrollment closes Sunday, August 30 · $699 one time · included free at Level 4
“Join. Don't wait. I wish that I had found Graves Academy twenty years ago. I'd be a whole different golfer right now if I had put the time and effort in the right spot.”
To your best golf,
Todd Graves & Tim Graves, PGA
Graves Golf · Single Plane University
P.S. — The single most common question we get at Graves Golf, multiple times a week for twenty-five years, is "when do I hit a hybrid and when do I hit an iron?" We have never sat down and answered it completely until now. Week 5 alone covers rough, fairway bunkers, wind, punch shots under trees, and chipping into the grain — with a specific right answer for each.
P.P.S. — $699 buys you this class. Less than half that — $297/month — makes you a Level 4 member, where it's included along with a coach, every guided class we run, and the full SPU Library — and if it isn't for you, we'll put you straight back on your grandfathered Level 3 price, no questions asked. Move up instead →
P.P.P.S. — And remember what we're guaranteeing. Not that you'll enjoy the videos — that you'll be able to strike these clubs, know your numbers, and know which one to pull. If six weeks isn't enough, your coach keeps going until it is. Enrollment closes at midnight on Sunday, August 30.