Build A Solid Foundation For Your Golf Swing

Build A Solid Foundation For Your Golf Swing

What is the common theme amongst all professional golfers and low handicappers?  It is not the shape of their swing; there is no perfect way to swing. All highly skilled golfers finish in perfect balance.

To gain perfect balance, you need to have a stable base and eliminate excessive lower body movement. If you feel like you are swinging, standing on banana peels, then try this exercise for increased lower body stability and strength.

Step 1:  
Set up in your normal golf stance.  Then place your lead leg directly behind you, balancing on your toes as if you were standing on a balance beam. Engage your core muscles (in Pilates, as with other exercise techniques, you want to create a strong, stable foundation of movement by employing the muscles of the pelvic floor and all of the abdominal muscles or your ‘core’ by simply inhaling and tightening your muscles in this area).
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Step 2:
Swing to the top of your backswing and then to your impact position for 8 repetitions in slow motion. Be sure you are sinking into your glute muscles for stability and balance.
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Step 3:
Return to your normal golf stance and make full swings sensing the stability in your lower body. This is a great drill for golfers of all levels. Incorporate this exercise into your daily workout routine to help increase lower body's stability and strength.

6 Weeks To Golf Fittness

Sports Scientists have now shown that a specific type of exercise program can drastically improve your golf game...

In fact, the results from one study on everyday golfers were staggering...

After just a few weeks, amateur golfers (with a variety of handicaps) significantly increased:

    Their club head speed
    Their shot distance
    Their carry distance
    The number of times they hit the ball out of the centre of the club

They even improved their swing plane.

The net result?

These golfers measurably reduced their overall scores without ANY technical practice or instruction!

We've created a series of step-by-step golf exercise plans based on this cutting-edge scientific research and set them out in an easy-to-follow guide called 6 Weeks To Golf Fitness...

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Golf Information: HISTORY OF GOLF

Golf Information: HISTORY OF GOLF: " History of golf The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate. Some historians[3] trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, ..."

       

         

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HISTORY OF GOLF

 History of golf
The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate. Some historians[3] trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. One theory asserts that paganica spread throughout Europe as the Romans conquered most of the continent, during the first century B.C., and eventually evolved into the modern game.[4] Others cite chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries.[5] A Ming Dynasty scroll dating back to 1368 entitled "The Autumn Banquet", shows a member of the Chinese Imperial court swinging what appears to be a golf club at a small ball with the aim of sinking it into a hole. The game is thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France.[6] This game was, in turn, exported to the Low Countries, Germany, and England (where it was called pall-mall, pronounced “pell mell”).[citation needed] Some observers,[who?] however, believe that golf descended from the Persian game, chaugán. In addition, kolven (a game involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a year earlier.
The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery.[7]
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