Physical Therapist Offers Advice on How to Swing a Golf Club.

Taking lessons on how to swing a golf club can be extremely frustrating. Trying to swing the proper way may not be just because of awkwardness, however.

According to an online article, posture, fitness, and flexibility are essential to improving your game and avoiding the injury bug.

Here is some of the advice the article had to offer.

Professional golfers make it look easy, but the golf swing is actually one of the most difficult and complicated movements in all of sports, requiring stability in some joints and flexibility in others.

The American Physical Therapy Association indicates that posture, fitness, and flexibility are becoming as important to weekend golfers as they are to the professionals. Major champions such as Tiger Woods, Mark O’Meara, and Corey Pavin are even known to get physical therapy.

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.bunkershot.com/2007/viewstory.cfm?ID=4499

I’d love to hear what you think about physical therapy’s relation to a good golf swing.

Matt