Golf Fitness

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The PGA Golf Tour
• 3 Common Golf Injuries
• 4 Golf Injury Prevention
• 5 Golf Fitness

You're also responsible for the players’ fitness and conditioning. What are the most important aspects of golf fitness that you work on?

"Some of the areas already mentioned such as flexibility and core stability overlap into the area of conditioning. Warm up pre-work out and stretching post-work continue the theme of flexibility. This is balanced with stability training of the core i.e. primary and global stabilizers of the body. Teaching awareness of Transverse Abdominus, Multifidus and Gluteus Medius muscles to maintain lumbo-pelvic control; developing Scapula (shoulder blade) control and Rotator Cuff muscle strength; and improving ankle proprioception are all key areas of stability training.

"We use a selective functional movement assessment similar to the Titleist Performance Institute (see myTPI.com) to screen each individual player, helping to identify their movements faults and imbalances that can be related back to their golf swing. Then corrective exercises can be used to improve mobility and stability, where required throughout the body. We are trying to promote normal posture and movement, allowing more traditional training methods to develop general strength, speed and power improving performance.

"Strength and power are important aspects of golf now, there are many good young players coming through who are athletes. Golfers strive for more distance now to be competitive. Our strength training involves lighter weights consisting of higher repetitions and speed with good form. Power work is achieved via resistance bands and medicine balls to develop speed as well as strength. Due to my background, emphasis is on control and quality motor patterns to ensure good functional training and to prevent injury.

"The information provided has been developed over a period of years working with elite athletes. It is only my personnel ideas on how golf players can be conditioned, and it must be remembered that golf is a very individual sport. There are also several other professionals from different backgrounds that provide physical conditioning to tour players. We all have a common theme, but how we get our results varies from individual to individual."

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