Fitness – Are Your Hips Limiting Your Golf Swing?

Reaching your full potential of movement during your backswing can have a huge impact on the power of your golf swing. It seems that the spine’s ability, or inability, to rotate gets too much credit for being a limitation to finding optimal range. If you find yourself struggling with power, or difficulty with swaying or […]

Fitness – Keep it Loose

I recently sat down with our Head Golf Instructor at the Four Seasons Golf & Sports Club, Jack Daneshmand, to compare what we find most common in each of our practices. For Jack, naming the swing fault he sees most often came very quickly: early extension.  There are multiple physical reasons a golfer may demonstrate […]

Fitness – Dissociation and the Golf Swing

The golf swing requires many movements that come from varying areas of the body. Specifically, the golf swing requires movements to follow a pattern referred to as a kinematic sequence.  Kinematic Sequence  Hips → Trunk → Arms → Club To successfully achieve the kinematic sequence, our bodies must have the ability to separate movements of […]

Fitness – A Pain in the Neck

In golf, up to 80 percent of injuries can come from overuse. If we layer on the demands that today’s technology puts on our posture, the neck can quickly become a limitation to your golf swing.  Anatomy  The neck is also known as the cervical spine. It is the top portion of our spine and […]