Health
We strive to bring as much up-to-date and cutting edge golf information that we can to our readers. To that end, I recently interviewed renowned ophthalmologist, Joseph Fishkin, on vision and how it effects more than you know about your golf game (particularly as you get older).
As you know, clear vision is key to the sport of golf. However, when golfers reach age 45, an age-related vision condition sets in called presbyopia, making it difficult to focus from near to far. With impaired vision it's hard to: read the green, line up with the ball, and putt with accuracy.
Until now, golfers have been using bifocals, trifocals or progressive glasses. ...
If you have never used a foam roller on your muscles you're in for a real "tortuous" experience. I almost guarantee you'll be wincing, cursing and feeling pain like you haven't in some time. Fun, fun.
So why on Earth would you do this? To get the damn knots and adhesions out of your muscles and bring your tissue back to it's original length.
See, your muscles, in some way, represent a rubber band. It has a certain length to it, so, for example, if you tie the rubber band in a knot it only gets tighter and more uncomfortable. Then you have to use your hands to really work out the ...
In my opinion, today's mainstream golf teacher is very one-dimensional and can only help players wishing to improve in a very limited way. I know a lot of pros will highly disagree with this view but hear me out.
I'm not saying it's they're fault, per say, but a LOT more goes into playing excellent golf than trying to flatten someone's golf swing or having them line up square.
What if you go to a golf lesson and the instructor wants to to complete a fuller turn but come to find out your body cannot get into that position easily? it might be more of a biomechanics issue than a ...
As I mentioned in my last post,
Off to the Golf Biomechanics Doctor, I had my first Golf Biomechanics Assessment in Boston this past weekend and, man, was it an eye-opener! It completely changed my view of exactly how critical biomechanics are to a solid, repeatable golf swing.
Not knowing exactly what to expect was part of the excitement in doing a test but I did have a *general* idea of what some of those test were because I purchased the
Golf Biomechanic's Manual (make sure you get the latest edition) from the C.H.E.K. Institute (I see they have it on Amazon but it's the older edition)
Once I ...
If you're like me and have limited golf conditioning time you might have ignored your hip abductor muscles. If you have, you might be making a big mistake. This blurb was taken from an article, "Golf's Muscle Man," in Golf Digest by Max Alder.
The report comes from Dr. Scott Lepart, who is Director of the Neuromuscular Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Center for Sports Medicine and also operates two human-performance and injury-prevention labs for the U.S. Army and U.S. Navel Special Operations.
From the article:
Says Lephart, "Identifying and strengthening specific muscles not only improves performance, it pre-empts injury"
After plowing through data collected from 700 golfers, including ...
GolfDashBlog: A lot of us know the name Joey Diovisalvi and have see you associated with the PGA Tour over the years. For those of who don't know you, can you bring them up to speed?
JoeyD: I'm a biomechanics coach on the PGA Tour and have been for over a decade now. I'm currently working week in and week out with seven Tour pros -- Pat Perez, Ryuji Imada, Jason Dufner, Charlie Wi, Chez Reavie, Jason Gore and Tom Pernice Jr. Before that I spent seven years working with Vijay Singh, including his run where he was the top-ranked player in the world. I've been featured on the CBS ...
I was pretty floored a few weeks back watching the St. Judes Classic and seeing the 265 pound girth of Guy Boros. That is just a lot of weight to be carrying around. And mind you, I am not judging Mr. Boros (or even the chunkiness of Duval) - he is on the PGA Tour with over 1.5 million in career earnings so he can weigh whatever he likes.
Just wondering if he did, say, lose 30 pounds or so just how effective his game would become. Well, that is my challenge for Mr. Boros - to lose 30 pounds. Only caveat is that I get a percentage of winnings once ...
Curious out there how many folks practice some type of alternative exercise to increase your golf swing power. By this I mean aikido, chi gong, tai chi, etc. I have practiced
aikido in the past so I have some direct experience. It is a type of "power" that you develop over time.
One of the keys in any of these disciplines is, of course, you have to practice it but it very much has to do with working on a way to relax your body so you have "effortless" power. I have glimpsed this only a few times in the last couple years and if I had the chance to ...
Johnny Miller made an interesting comment in yesterdays Players Championship concerning Tiger Woods.
Not sure of the exact quote but he mentioned that maybe his biceps are getting in the way of his swing. Now golf certainly requires strength but I tend to agree with Johnny. He just seems to be getting too pumped up to play precision golf.
If you made a composite image of all the past superstars into one ideal body type you would certainly not get the current view we have of Tiger.
Hogan, Snead, Watson, Trevino, Nicklaus, Miller, all had, of course, different body types but even Jack's figure was somewhat "sinewy" in his prime. No bulk. Just long, ...
While most established tour pros have a coach and a psychologist but very few have a biomechanics expert as part of their team.
It seems your golf technique is often compromised by poor biomechanics. So, in other words, no matter how hard you try to emulate Tiger Woods' rapid hip clearance or Fred Couples' flexible turn, you won't be able to achieve it if you don't have the physical capability to make those movements.
Biomechanics experts, unlike PGA professionals (who have a detailed knowledge of golf swing fundamentals) golf biomechanics experts use advanced physical assessment and training technique to improve flexibility, muscle performance and joint stability.
Then, according to the results, a program (personalized ...
