Understanding and strengthening your “core” is important to improving your golf game. All movement, whether it is swinging the golf club, sitting or standing originates from core muscles. Core muscles are an important part of overall training and until recently, have been a neglected part of the body. Your core is comprised of muscles from […]

By: Pam Owens with Karen Palacios-Jansen All good players have one position in the golf swing that is similar despite their very different looking swings. This position is impact. Good players retain their wrist-cock through the hitting area, so that their left wrist (for right-handed golfers) is bowed and the right wrist is flexed and […]

An important aspect for increasing your club head speed in your swing is having a strong core. A stronger, more flexible core helps support the arms and hands to swing the club as fast as you can while maintaining balance. Your core muscles or your torso consists of your abdominals, back, pelvis, oblique muscles and […]

Commit to making 2009 your best year for golf. In order to improve your swing and shave strokes off your score, you need to work on your fundamentals. Your alignment may be the most important factor in hitting a solid shot. If your alignment is incorrect, than you usually have to make some sort of […]

Many people mistakenly think stretching is a way to warm up before golf because, if you are like most of us, you were taught the importance of warm up calisthenics back in grade school, and you have pretty much the same routine ever since. Exercise science, however, has moved on. Researchers now believe that regular […]

When Tiger Woods burst onto the professional golf scene in 1996, he brought with him a great many shots that had never been seen before and many misconceptions about how to create them. One belief crafted from his enormous success was that to compete in the modern game, one had to become an amazingly fit […]

Ever wondered why some of the smaller pros, both on the LPGA and PGA tours, can crush the ball even with their small builds? One reason is that they maximize their hip rotation in the golf swing and shift their weight correctly. Hip rotation in a golf swing is one of the most important parts […]

By: Eric Lastowka-World Class Long Driver A late wrist release in your swing is a great thing to have to encourage your best swing speed. Ideally, you want to save your lag (the angle that your hands, wrists and club have created on the downswing) until your hands have traveled past your belt-line. You want […]

Golf Fitness Magazine publisher Steve Gomen and managing editor Karen Jansen, recently had the opportunity to visit David Donatucci the new director of Fitness and Performance at the PGA Learning Center at the PGA Golf Club located in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The team at Golf Fitness Magazine asked the new fitness director to show […]

Is A Must For Senior Golfers Fitness for golf is a common term and senior golfers are getting the gist of it. The secret is out. Fitness for golf has come full circle and all the players on the senior tour and senior amateurs are taking notice. With the senior golfer comes a rapid decline […]