I have never once heard a golfer tell me they hit the ball too far! Who wouldn’t want to hit the ball and extra 15 yards just by doing a few simple exercises and stretches 3x per week for 2 months? This blog is about a research article I came across titled, “An Eight-Week
Here’s some tips to improve your golf game during the winter months. Unfortunately the Golf season is ending for those of you up north. What do you do in the off-season to improve your game? Do you go to the golf dome and hit balls? That’s great you should be doing that regularly. Hitting
Have you ever wondered why people get hurt playing golf? After all golf is a recreational sport by nature. Traditionally golfers are not considered athletes. If golf is not athletic, why do you get hurt why playing or why do you hurt after playing? Not so fast. Professional golfers work just as hard if
TPI level 2 Medical focuses on a more specific assessment than TPI level 1, called the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA). The SFMA is used by many medical clinicians including DC’s, PT’s and ATC’s to find the cause of pain, which many times is a site different than the source of the pain. The SFMA
If you want to read the abstract of the study before reading my analysis click here. This study is very intriguing for a couple of reasons. One, it is the first of its kind to relate physical limitations identified in the body from the Level 1 screen and relating it to swing characteristics seen on
Do you want to shoot lower scores? Of course you do, everybody does. A better short game is probably one of the easiest ways to lower your scores. Proper technique with the short game includes keeping a quiet lower body and using it as a pivot point to rotate your upper body. Here is a
The Hip Hinge, Pelvic Tilt and Back Pain Back pain is the most common injury, comprising anywhere from 35-55% of golf injuries (1). It is also worth noting that around 80-90% of the population have back pain at some point in his/her life (2). There are an estimated 30 million golfers in the US
Having years of experience being a competitive golfer, having played golf with many different skill levels of players, experience building golf clubs and now working with golfer’s on improving their bodies, these are the best tips I have on shaving strokes and making golf more enjoyable. Note these tips are in order of importance. Feel
For those of you who slice the ball (left to right shots) the natural reaction of the body is to swing more to the left. However, swinging to the left causes the ball to slice by imparting more spin onto the ball. Here’s a quick learning moment: two things can affect ball flight.The first and
The following is the first of a series of posts about the X-factor, X-factor stretch and how it relates to the golf swing. The series will cover: 1st: What the X-factor and X-factor stretch are and Is the X-factor stretch more important than the X-factor? 2nd: What makes the X-factor stretch important for distance in the