So, your golf swing needs improvement and you know it? Here are some tips in making better golf swings. Tip no. 1. A great golf swing does not mean you have to swing with arms.
Having been a certified conditioning professional for over 20 years and the last 10 with golfers exclusively…I can tell you with one hundred percent confidence there is definitely a muscular component to the golf swing. And if the muscles have not been trained to work in a specific sequence, with minimal tension and maximum power, the expected results will not be achieved.
Golf swing muscles? Is there such a thing? You didn’t think they were important or existed did you? But I’m sure when you’ve gone home after a round of golf with a sore back you were reminded very quickly, you do in fact have golf swing muscles.
Every year, with the first hint of spring, thousands of golfers dig out their golf equipment and head off to do battle with the course, their opponents, their innermost demons and, invariably, their golf equipment. Golf is a game where even the lucky few in the professional ranks search endlessly for extra yardage, the perfect bunker shot, and the inch perfect putt, so for those of us at club level any technological advantage is well worth having. Key to realizing many of these goals is having the latest golf equipment, and whether you need to improve your swing, or you are just looking to improve your reputation in the latest golfing trends, saving money on golf equipment is seriously worthwhile.
I received a question over the weekend from a BioForce Golf subscriber about “body motion” in the swing.
Body motion in the swing is necessary, but too much of a good thing can wreak all kinds of havoc with your golf swing.
Body motion in the swing is necessary, but too much of a good thing can wreak all kinds of havoc with your golf swing.
I received a question over the weekend from a BioForce Golf subscriber about “body motion” in the swing.
Because a round of golf takes several hours to complete, there is ample time for the players mental state to have a great effect on his or her performance. Many higher handicap golfers never produce a game when a card and pencil are involved, that in any when resembles their play when matched against a friend. The pressure of having to record a score that might prove embarrassing causes a tension capable of shattering a poor method but also reducing a good swinger to a nervous state that his true game doesn’t materialise.
Some PGA Tour players have been playing for a couple of weeks in Hawaii and California. Others like Vijay and Ernie have been playing on the European Tour. Regardless of how many tournaments the pros have played this year, they have been working on their games for more time than most of us realize. Make no mistake about it: in golf – or baseball, football, basketball or any other pro sport – there is no longer an off-season.
To help generate additional club head speed and greater distance, the key is to retain your release angle. The release angle is the angle created by your left arm and the shaft on the downswing (lag). Put simply, the more acute this angle is and the longer it is maintained into impact, the further the golf ball will travel.
“I want to increase my golf swing clubhead speed!” I hear this one all the time from the members of my golf-trainer.com site and golfers sending me emails. I want to be a ’straight’ shooter (pardon the pun) right now. Increasing your golf swing clubhead speed is not everything!
It is a simple question yet one that is not easy to answer. I imagine that most of you come up with some definition that is something to the effect of “Flexibility is stretching, right?” That answer is partially correct. Flexibility training incorporates stretching techniques. However, it is NOT limited to traditional stretching, and the two terms cannot be used interchangeably.
Flexibility is quite often a misunderstood principle, but most of us know it is important to golf. Before we discuss flexibility and its relevance to golf we need to start with: “What in the #$%#%$#% is flexibility anyways?”
