Do You Swing a Heavy Club?

Professional baseball has done studies and found that increasing the weight of the ball by more than 20% will change the muscle pattern and increase your risk of injury. Secondly, swinging a heavy object will condition your body to respond SLOWER. If your top club head speed is 100 MPH and you swing a heavy implement when you return to swinging a golf club, you will swing a few MPH SLOWER. When it comes to the golf swing, we want our muscles to respond quicker, not slower.

Start with putting and work up to full swings – good way of preparing for a round, but putting is not a WARM UP. According to Dr. Peter McKay at the world golf fitness summit, a large percentage of back injuries occur in the first 15% of motion. Getting into your putting posture will cross that threshold. I would prefer to see you warm up prior to any golf related activity. So once you have warmed up through your clubs, perform 10-15 swings with your driver upside down as fast as you can to prepare your body and system for the speed needed to play a great round!

Dee Tidwell
Championship Golf Fitness