Positive member feedback and strong member participation are accelerating rollout of new community and progress tracking features.
Aspen, Colo. — GolfForever, the industry-leading at-home golf fitness and wellness system designed to help everyday golfers move better, play better, and enjoy the game pain-free late into life, announced that its February 2026 GolfForever Fitness Challenge drew nearly 1,000 participating members, far exceeding expectations and prompting plans for additional challenges later this year.
The February Challenge was created to help golfers prepare their bodies for the season ahead, turning the offseason anticipation into an opportunity to build strength, mobility, and consistency. Designed to keep members motivated and accountable, it gave golfers a simple, structured way to build momentum alongside a like-minded community while reinforcing habits that support long-term performance.
“We didn’t know what to expect when we put the challenge out there,” said Jon Levy, GolfForever SVP of Brand and Communications. “We had never engaged our membership with a formal challenge or monitored their activity in this way before. To see nearly 1,000 golfers sign up was an exciting indicator of how engaged our members are, and how motivated they are to improve their bodies and games for the upcoming season.”
As part of the Challenge sign-up process, GolfForever surveyed participants prior to the start to better understand the program’s impact. Among a subset of 399 respondents who reported using GolfForever an average of two times per week or more, 98.5 percent reported noticeable improvements in their physical ability to swing a golf club, including gains in range of motion, flexibility, strength, and endurance.
During the Challenge, increased engagement led to additional reports of improvement and hundreds of positive messages from participants.
One enthusiastic GolfForever user whose story stands out is 79-year-old Gene Merchant, who committed himself to one hour of exercise four to five days a week even before the 28-day challenge began. He used the Challenge period to share his enthusiasm and results. “This GolfForever system seems to work the core and the whole body very well. After five or six months, I started to notice a real difference in my game. I was driving the ball up to 40 yards longer. My average driving distance had dipped down to about 190 yards and after the GolfForever workouts, I’m now able to drive it 230 yards.”
Following the success of the February Challenge, GolfForever will double down on current plans to integrate these success markers directly into the core user experience, spurred by powerful stories shared by members who moved out of chronic pain and back onto the course.
“It’s very clear our members are motivated by goals and measures of progress,” Levy noted. “So, that’s exactly what we’re going to give them more of in their daily GolfForever experience.”
Moving forward, the company’s focus will be on providing members with enhanced tools to quantify and manage their personal progress, such as enhancing the onboarding strength and flexibility test; new quantitative and qualitative feedback loops to help users measure their progress over time; and a function allowing users to adjust their personalized programs based on their evolving fitness levels.
“This challenge showed us the impact our mission has on people,” Levy said. “GolfForever members will soon better understand the tangible value and measurable progress they see in their bodies and on the golf course.”
For more information about GolfForever, visit golfforever.com.
About GolfForever
GolfForever is a comprehensive, smart at-home training system that takes a science-based approach to maximizing performance by improving flexibility, core strength, balance, and rotational power. The first golf-specific home training program to embrace the approach of home exercise equipment paired with streaming instruction, GolfForever takes it one step further by customizing each golfer’s exercise routines just for them, based on a proprietary strength and flexibility test users take when starting. The result is a product and program that is safe, highly effective for any golfer and proven to work, as evidenced by a pilot study that saw users who used GolfForever three days per week for 30 days gain an average of 26 yards with their driver.
With exercise routines designed by some of the top PGA Tour trainers and orthopedic experts in the U.S., GolfForever users can expect to swing and perform their best – with a pain-free body – for as long as they play the game. It is used by more than 1,000 PGA Tour and LPGA Tour players, and thousands of everyday golfers alike. Founded in Aspen, Colorado in 2019 by Dr. Jeremy James, a leading specialist in chronic back pain and co-author of the Younger Next Year Back Book, GolfForever is the ideal companion to expert golf instruction. For more information, go to GolfForever.com or download the new mobile application on the Apple Store for IOS or Google Play for Android.
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