Senior Golfers Don't Need To Be Poor Golfers

Online, March 8, 2011 (Newswire.com) - With the correct strategies there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to continue playing great golf well into your senior years.

The common faults shared by many senior golfers are no warm-up routine, poor balance and posture, very little turn resulting in a lack of power, no tempo to their swing, and using the wrong equipment.

The article below provides some great tips to address these common faults, and the video demonstrates how a simple tweak to your posture at address can significantly improve your golf game.

Tips For Senior Golfers:

It's important to keep playing golf throughout your senior years; golf has huge health benefits, both physically and mentally. Some golfers play for the challenge of competition and some play for exercise and social interaction.

In a perfect world it would be great to be able to change our bodies to become more golf fit; some golfers will work on becoming stronger and more flexible and some won't.
Strength and flexibility deteriorates as we age. Old injuries from other sports and arthritis inhibit movement, and many have had some form of major operation.

When a golfer comes to us for help we look to make sure there aren't any movements in the swing that could cause an injury. We look at the swing to see what kind of ball flight they have and how repetitive the swing is. The swing doesn't have to be 'textbook perfect', but it needs to be repetitive with consistent contact to the ball and a consistent shape in the air. We look to see what is causing the biggest problem, and we fix it!

The most common problems we see that affect our senior golfers are: Not warming up, Posture, Balance, Stability, Tempo and Equipment.

Here are some tips on how you can improve these areas.

Warm Up:
Before you hit off, allow some time to warm up. It is best if you can go for a brisk walk to get the heart rate up a little, maybe a walk to the driving range? Stretch and hit some shots either in the practice nets or on the range. This will help you get your body moving, rather than using the first five holes to warm up and damaging your score!

Posture:
In very simple terms, as we age our posture changes. We become more curved in the upper part of our back, detrition often occurs in our spine, we can be carrying a bit of extra weight around our tummy and our butt, and our leg muscles aren't as strong as they used to be.

Some golfers will be able to adapt to improve their golf posture through strength and stretching programs, others will struggle.

Try this simple stretch: stand tall with your arms close to your side, keeping your arms close to your side and your palms facing out, pretend you have a grape between your shoulder blades and try and squash it, drawing your shoulder blades closer together. This is a really nice stretch to help open up the muscles in your chest and shoulder area.

Visit the link below to read the full article ...

http://www.insidegolf.com.au/golftips/game-improvement/tips-for-senior-golfers/

Chin-up For More Distance:

As we get older we all have a tendency to stoop more. This results in a very cramped position at address, which in-turn restricts your swing and follow-through. The end-result is much less distance than you are capable of. In this video, Bruce Green (Head Professional at Royal Melbourne Golf Club) demonstrates a simple 'chin-up' fix for this annoying problem.

Visit the link below to see the video demonstration ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ACDJbBn9GM

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