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Golf Resistance Training - Helping To Make You A Better Player

Being a good golfer requires a good level of fitness. Remember, there are 18 long holes you have to play! That's a lot of walking, swinging, and carrying your bags. If you really want to improve your score, enjoy the game more, and in general feel fitter and healthier, then you need to consider golf resistance training. Regardless of your age, if you start to use resistance training on a regular basis, this can help you get into better shape and even help stave off disease. Golfers who want to add more power to their swing, whilst also giving their stamina and endurance a boost to complete all 18 holes should consider resistance training, also known as strength training. This is also a great way to loosen up muscles, preventing injury whilst out there on the golf course. Resistance training simply involves lifting weights or working out with resistance machines at a gym. If you want to, you can also do resistance training at home, just by using everyday items that you already own. ...

Shanking a Pitch shot - How to Stop Forever

This has to be the most discouraging moment in golf. You're about 70 yards from the green, the pin is waiting for you to lay the ball right next to it -- and you shank it into the weeds to the right of the green. For the rest of the day you avoid pitch shots for fear this will happen again. I tried countless fixes which worked temporarily. Teaching pros thought they had found the answer, but the day after the lesson was over, out popped the shank again. So one day I decided to break down a shank to find out why they happen. Maybe therein would lay the cure. I was right. Do what I did. Set up a golf ball with your wedge. Take your hands off the grip, just supporting the club with a few fingers so it doesn't move at all. Now rotate the shaft clockwise, and you'll see the clubface turning away from the ball, and as you keep turning your canal, you may sooner or later understand the near the ball. It is precisely what a new shank can be. It can be if you reach your ball while u...