Essential Tips For Improving Golf Fitness And Your Golf Scores
Most avid golfers are aware of the importance of warm-up exercises before a game of golf. Yes, even the amateurs, be it teen players or seniors who have taken to golf after retirement, know the necessity to be fit before starting off on their 9 hole session and much more so, for an 18-hole round of regular golf.
But even with this basic awareness about golf fitness, many enthusiastic golfers in a bid to get the game started off are careless about their initial ‘warm up’ pre-golf game exercises. In fact, for some players, this may well consist of dashing from their vehicles to the professional golf equipment shop or the club and making it in record time (under 5 minutes, boast some) to their favorite club or golf course for their first tee-off. This is not the ideal golf warm up exercise, say golf fitness instructors.
In order to get the maximum benefits from a good game of golf, it is important to use the time before walking to the course for warming up exercise, including some basic stretches to revitalize the muscles in the body to react pro-actively when doing the rounds.
Warm up golf exercises encourage steady play on the first 5 holes and thus contribute towards a player’s better performance on the course, advise golf fitness gurus. Therefore to avoid disappointments on the subsequent rounds, it is necessary to begin with a bang. This means, following a particular style of warm up exercises customized for an beginner, intermediate or advanced level golf player who is thereafter charged up to eliminate chances for making bogies mentally and thus, is able to do so physically as well, when he or she does step on to the greens – with confidence and improved golf fitness to avoid these golfing bloopers, thanks to pre-game warm up exercises for a fit mind and body!
2 tips for pre-golf game exercise fitness – hints to improve golf scores
1. Golf fitness professionals recommend players should try and go to the greens early so as to have enough time in hand for taking care of routine tasks, such as visiting the golf shop, using the facilities, changing into the golf kit and so on. When you are not rushed, you are actually giving time for a complete warm up and setting your pace for the game right, so move confidently, steadily and surely through the regime and follow through with a few breathing exercises for relaxing before a game of golf. Arriving an hour or even half an hour prior to your game is a good way to cover these tasks competently before tee-off time beckons!
2. The next step for starting your game at the right pace, with the right frame of mind and body is to warm up a little on the course, as one pro put it: ‘Putting is 43-percent of golf.’ So, begin with imagining your putting stroke with the slowest and smoothest move you can think of in a game of golf, because that is what you should be doing typically. Warming up on the greens will enable you to build up to a smooth, deliberate tempo required for a great game of golf. There’s really no point in being the first on the range and limbering up for an opening drive, only to find you have to stand a quarter of an hour without moving on putting greens, now is there?