IMPROVE MY GAME

Not All Yoga is Good for Golf But Proper Application Can Deliver Big Benefits

By Dana Santas

Yoga tends to be touted as the panacea for everything, but not all yoga is good for golfers. In fact, spending hours doing arbitrary yoga poses to increase your flexibility could actually impede your functional movement, power and control on the links. That isn’t to say that all yoga is bad for golfers…more like, not all yoga is created equal, and its effectiveness is dictated by the quality of its application to the movement and mental demands of the game.

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The Science Behind a Golf Warm Up

By Ben Langdown

Ben Langdown and Jack Wells studied the effect that a proper warm up had on golf performance. The results were astounding.

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How Fast Eddie Generates 150 mph Clubhead Speed over the age of 50

By TPI

We had the opportunity to evaluate one of the fastest golfers in the world ahead of his Masters division victory at the PLDA World Championship.

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How Charley Hoffman's Data-Driven Approach Produced a Breakthrough in His Swing

By TPI

Charley's recent visit to TPI was a perfect example of a Body-Swing Connection, and how something as common as limited lower body rotation could affect club delivery, ball flight tendency and even grip.

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How Pro Golfers Stay Fit During Quarantine

By TPI

Whether in the gym or at home, there's no magic solution. Just hard work.

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Winter Olympics and Golf

By Dave Phillips

If you’re a parent of a talented young golfer, pay attention to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The story of Mikaela Shiffrin may be just what you need to help support your child in golf.

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8 Exercises to Improve your Scapula Stability and Shoulder Mobility for Golf

By Dr. Ben Langdown and Jennifer Fleischer

Dr. Ben Langdown and Jennifer Fleischer explore what good upper body posture means for your golf and provide you with exercises to help increase your upper back strength and shoulder mobility.

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How Weighted Carries Can Benefit Your Golf Game

By Bobby Dattero

Carries are tremendous exercises for improving work capacity, grip training, core strength, coordination, and shoulder health.

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I-Vest

By Dave Phillips

I-Vest is an iPhone app that can give you bio feedback on your golf posture.

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What We Can Learn About Distance From Long Drive Competitors

By TPI

A look at how the longest drivers in the world achieve 200+ mph ball speed and what the average golfer can learn from it.

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Tyler Duncan's TPI Assessment: Addressing Spine Angle and Spin Loft to Improve Wedge Performance

By TPI

Our assessment with PGA TOUR and KFT veteran, Tyler Duncan, revealed how limited thoracic spine mobility could be creating attack angle and spin loft issues with his wedges.

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4 Steps To More Rotational Power

By Nick Buchan

TPI Certified trainer Nick Buchan shares how to safely progress your medicine ball throws for more rotational power.

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Maximize On-Course Performance

By Sean Saunders

If you want to improve at golf, you have to be able to transfer skills from the range to the course. It sounds simple, but you'll find that many of your practice habits don't facilitate that transfer.

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Should all the body parts reach the top of backswing at the same time?

By Phil Cheetham

This is a question we get all the time - but the short answer is NO!

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Club Head Speed By Age Group: What Percentile Are You In?

By Chris Finn

With over 600 data points, Par4Success has been able to identify a number of top metrics in the physical realm that you should be striving for if you want to play at your highest level.

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Making the Most of Your Offseason: Strength Training to Improve Your Game

By Paul Gozbekian

For any golfer, having the ability to increase force production with less effort will help you move the club faster.

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In The Gym With I.K. Kim

By Robert Yang

I.K. Kim recently captured her first major at the Ricoh British Open. Here's a look at how she trains with TPI instructor Robert Yang.

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Minimal Dose, Maximum Effectiveness

By Jason Glass

TPI instructor Jason Glass previews his presentation for the World Golf Fitness Summit.

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Jason Glass Discusses Glute Activation and Training on Unstable Surfaces

By Jason Glass

Jason responds to questions on Twitter about glute activation and training on unstable surfaces. Great discussion about the importance of progression and regression, two topics discussed in-depth in Fitness Level 2.

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Working on Distance Control with Adrian Meronk

By TPI

New video featuring a session with two-time Olympian and four-time DP World Tour champ, Adrian Meronk. In this video, Dave and Greg work with Adrian to improve pelvis rotation in the backswing and minimize wrist hinge to improve distance control with his wedges.

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