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Author :: Susan Hill  |
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| Article Title :: Getting To The Core Of Your Golf Swing |
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| At some point, almost all of us struggle with efforts to improve our golf game. Many will try videos, books, hours with a teaching pro, the newest club, and swing after swing to no avail. While there’s some improvement, it’s just not what you’d anticipated. What could be the problem?The golf swing involves many components that must be executed with precision timing and skill. Properly fitted clubs are an important part of this total solution. It’s easy to understand the movements you need to be making with the help of a professional golf instructor, videos, and even books. Then why can’t you implement what you know?One aspect that is beginning to receive lots (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Susan Hill |
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| Article Title :: Can a Stability Ball Help You Strengthen Your Core For Golf? |
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| Some call it a Swiss Ball, some call it a fitness ball, others use the more modern term ‘stability ball.’ Whatever you call it, the stability ball has been used in exercise and rehabilitation for years and has recently been adopted by personal trainers and fitness instructors for use in strength training and muscle development, especially when it comes to exercises designed to strengthen the core muscles.The American Council on Exercise (ACE) says that core strength is important because the muscles of the lower back and abdomen serve as a solid foundation for nearly all bodily activities, movement, and posture. Incorporation of the stability ball into an exercise routine help (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Bill Scibetta |
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| Article Title :: Invest in the Right Equipment and Take Your Game to the Next Level |
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| Golf is a $60 billion per year industry. Much of that staggering figure comes from money spent on new “technologically advanced” equipment. Equipment the manufacturers claim will let us hit the ball farther and straighter than ever before. Another large area of spending is golf instruction. Today’s golfer has access to a vast number of highly qualified PGA teaching professionals to correct swing faults and give cues on how to make better ball contact. With all this high tech equipment and expert instruction, the average golfer must be playing better and shooting lower scores than ever…right? Wrong! The average handicap has not dropped in over 18 years. Why is this? The (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Kevin Lynch |
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| Article Title :: Charity Golf Tournaments |
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| If you are involved with a non-profit organization, chances are you have been approached by people who specialize in hosting charity golf tournaments. Charity golf tournaments are extremely popular ways for people to raise money. Usually, the way these events are set up, people pay a fee to be involved in a two or three-day event, sometimes a one-day event only. The players get to play alongside local celebrities and there are prizes that can be won to sweeten the deal.An example of a charity golf prize is a hole-in-one prize. The tournament organizer will choose a hole with a par-3 and offer, say, a new car to the person who hits a hole in one. There is no risk involved to the cha (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Bill Scibetta |
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| Article Title :: Sit Up Straight! It Will Help Your Game |
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| What does it take to reproduce the perfect golf swing? Precise coordination of muscle contraction and relaxation, muscle balance and body awareness are all required to recreate a good swing. A prerequisite to these necessary components is good posture.Good posture is a state of musculoskeletal balance that allows the body to move efficiently in a stress free range of motion. Faulty posture sets the body into a state of neuromuscular imbalance where flexibility and range of motion are limited (loss of power), neuromuscular pathways are disrupted (loss of control and consistency) and detrimental forces are placed on the spine and joints (increased chance of injury).The caus (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Susan Hill |
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| Article Title :: 5 Golf Fitness Tips That Work |
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| If you have turned on the television to watch any golf tournament over the last couple of years, you obviously already know the strong role that fitness plays in improving your golf game. When you engage in a regular fitness routine, you’re preparing your body for improved performance by building a lean, strong, fit physique capable of more control and consistency with your clubs. Being fit enables your golf skills to shine through, and is generally reflected in a lower handicap.Give up your old gym routine.Change is often difficult to come by, but necessary as times change and we learn new information. Make sure that the exercises you are concentrating on now will help (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Susan Hill |
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| Article Title :: Today’s Golf Schools Bring In The Elements Of Instruction And Fitness |
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| What comes to mind when you think of golf lessons through a golf school? Do you imagine hours of instruction on the range and putting green? Maybe the school teaching professionals will review the fundamentals and even include a playing lesson. While each of these elements has an important role in improvement of your golf swing, do you have any idea what might be missing? Today’s golf schools incorporate much more than a teaching lesson and round of golf. Today’s schools incorporate fitness as an integral part of the golf experience.Why has fitness become a part of golf instruction? Golf professionals understand that fitness plays a critical role in word class golf. Fitnes (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Susan Hill |
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| Article Title :: Master Flexibility Training And You’ll Conquer The Playing Field In Golf |
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| Is it difficult to rotate your body through the full range of motion in your golf swing? Do you stop short on your back swing? Lack of flexibility can adversely affect not only your golf game, but your health as well. Different muscles are called upon at different points in the golf swing. If you are not flexible you are more prone to injuries. Your body will try to overcompensate by engaging other joints and muscles that are not ready for the stress and strain of the movement.Many golfers lack flexibility in the rotation of their spine and hips during their golf swing. They may overcompensate with their arms. Trying to hit the ball hard with your arms can leave them feeling (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Susan Hill |
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| Article Title :: Fitness For Golf Is The New Gold Standard |
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| Golf fitness has never been considered as important to one’s enjoyment and success in the sport as it is today. The erroneous concepts and opinions of old (golf is not a physical game… golfers don’t need to worry about fitness or nutrition…) are dying away in favor of the realization that fitness is paramount to performing well and golfers simply play better when they’re in better shape.Today’s golf experts realize that it is much more than Twain’s “good walk, spoiled” assessment of the sport. Nearly every pro playing golf today works with a personal golf fitness trainer. Many of them are stationed in areas of the country where they can have easy and quick acce (read full article) |
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| Category :: Golf Articles |
Author :: Susan Hill |
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| Article Title :: Shoulder Exercises To Improve Your Game |
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| Your shoulder strength and flexibility are essential to producing an optimal swing off the tee. Adequate shoulder rotation is responsible for keeping the club in the desirable swing plane. Tightness of your external right shoulder rotation limits your follow through while tightness of your external left shoulder rotation creates restrictions in your backswing.One of the ways you can make sure that your shoulders are up to the task is to include shoulder exercises in your fitness routine. Fitness is crucial to being a good golfer, so anybody who wants to improve in the sport should be including fitness in their weekly routine.When adding shoulder exercises, you are focusing (read full article) |
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