How To Be The Best Golf Player With Good Golf Fitness
Golf, like all other games, requires a well-rounded approach to achieving success at the level you desire. Being a good golf player goes far beyond having an ideal score of below 80. Although skill plays a major part, good golf fitness is the key to winning golf games with ease.
To be a good golf player, you have to get down past the three areas of:
- Golf Fitness,
- Golf Practice,
- Etiquette.
1. Golf Fitness
Keeping your body and mind in excellent shape is a key element to becoming a good, if not great, golf player. Looking after your body and making sure it is in shape not only gets you to perform better on the course, it also ensures you that you can enjoy golf even well into your years.
Achieve the desired golf fitness body by eating right and exercising regularly. Maintain cardiovascular fitness and muscle tone that suits the game of golf. Some indicators of physical fitness are your blood pressure and your BMI (body mass index). Consult with your doctor on what levels are right for your age and body type.
On the other hand, mental fitness is also just as important. Find ways to relieve yourself of stress. Develop a regular meditation time alone or with family/friends. Keep your mind sharp by exercising it with reading or with puzzles like crosswords.
2. Golf Practice
All professional golfers have a regular and consistent practice routine. Many amateur golf players find themselves wanting to play more and practice less when it is the opposite that gets better results as far as scores go. By practicing more, you develop techniques and muscle memory that will carry you well into your game.
An ideal play to practice ratio is 1:2, that is, for every hour of golf you play, you should do 2 hours of practice. This may not be done all in the same day. It is advised to alternate practice and play days so as not to work out too much.
Never stop learning more about the game. Knowing how to play does not mean you cannot learn more and be better. Remember that there is always something new you can learn so either enroll in a class or take up a lesson or two with a more advanced player. This can be done on an annual basis. Constantly wanting to improve your golf skills shows your dedication to becoming a better player than you were the year before.
3. Etiquette
Being a great player on the course and on the practice field is nothing if you are not a good person to play with. Rudeness is never condoned in sports and certainly not in golf. Golf is a gentleman’s game and rules pertaining to respecting others are of utmost importance.
Marcus Boo
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Golf Fitness?
Im 15 5’7", and weigh about 135. I play on the golf team for my school and it seems at every match all the players I am against hit the ball a lot farther than me. What are some good ways to get stronger and what areas of my body should i focus on? Changing my swing is not an option right now so please don’t suggest that. Thank you
Start working out on your upper body ,especially shoulders and neck muscles, also work on your forearms.
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do some push-ups
and make your forearm bigger
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Changing your body strength will change your swing, so you’d better be prepared for the change.
TheGolfChannel.com has a golf fitness section with lots of helps. Use the link below.
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http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=37100&dv=7311714&select=1315
Hello
Actually in order to gain more power you should start working on the big muscles in your legs and torso, thats where all the pros get their power from.
Its always good to balance out a fitness program but in golf the legs equate to power. Also some good stretching exersizes will help.
Be prepared for the long haul though because nothing changes rapidly.
Leon
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Don’t worry much about it. You can gain distance with an overall improvement of strength, flexibility, and a consistent swing, but it isn’t the most important thing……just ask Fred Funk.
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It’s so much to do with the wrists that it is silly…Here is what Tiger did when he was a child.
He took the sections of his Sunday Paper (the LA times in his case) and crumpled each of the pages with one hand then the other. He did it not only with the Sunday paper, but with daily editions as well.
As long as you are accurate and can get the ball to the green on most second shots, there is not reason right now to do much more. There was a recent article in golfdigest (check at golfdigest.com) about the proper transfer of energy to add distance. Look for the October or November issues. SHow it to your coach or golf teacher and see if some of it can apply to you and your game.
The answers here show how much of an individual game golf really is. It is unbelieveable that you can see so many different opinions. Of course, before embarking on any training regimen, consult with a PGA or LPGA professional or your golf coach if s/he is qualified.
Scott in NY who plays great from 100 yards in and makes his hay there.
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Work on flexibility. Yoga as silly as it seems is phenominal way of gain flexibility fast. Go buy a yoga video for $10 at Wal-mart and follow it for 2 weeks and you will be amazed. Also work on forearm strength as it will not only help your lag and whip at impact, it will also help you to square the face. Get a tennis or raquet ball and squeeze it while watching TV. Good luck
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