IMPROVE MY GAME

When to Shut it Down?

By Dr. Peter Mackay

The medical and coaching personnel working with professional golfers are often called upon to make judgments with respect to a player being fit to play or to continue to play in a specific event.

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Have You Reached a Plateau?

By Dave Phillips

You keep trying but you're just not getting better. What do you do?

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Is Age a Barrier?

By Dave Phillips

Golfers in their 40's are excelling. Lets find out why.

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Peanut Butter or Bananas - What is best for fuel on the course?

By Dr. Greg Rose

PGA Tour Player Adam Scott explains his eating habits on the course and our Advisory Board discusses the nutritional value of that meal.

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Does your Golf Shoe Fit ?

By Dave Phillips

Shoes come in all shapes and sizes to fit all the different feet our their but maybe you should ask a few more questions before you buy your next pair of golf shoes.

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Boxing, Golf and fast twitch muscle fiber!

By Dave Phillips

Is training like a Boxer good for your golf game ?

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How to Use Your Power 2 Certification to Increase Your Business

By Chris Finn

When you complete the TPI Power 2 Certification course, you join an elite and small number of golf performance professionals who can help golfers in unique ways.

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Dr. Greg Rose Discusses Considerations For Coaching and Training Female Golfers On The Felix Fortis Podcast

By TPI

“If you’re trying to develop power in women, do not neglect the lower body."

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Treating Motor Pattern Dysfunction: Are Your Corrective Exercises Correcting?

By Paul Gozbekian

How do you prepare your body for training, activity and performance? More importantly, how are you dealing with muscle tightness, joint immobility, chronic pain and injury that are limiting your potential in these areas?

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The Distance Debate: How Modern Training Programs May Be An Overlooked Factor

By Ross Eves

A look at how physical training and the influx of elite athletes have influenced the increase in distance on the PGA TOUR.

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Maximize the Speed You Already Have

By Liam Mucklow

Every player wants to hit it further, but many golfers don't realize that they already have the physical tools to do it.

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How Golf Clubs Are Using Fitness To Engage, Attract And Retain Members

By TPI

"While golf may have been the dominant force driving club membership since the end of WWII, health, fitness and wellness will be the identifying characteristics over the next 20 years. This is where society is going."

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10 Ways to Motivate our Young Athletes

By Milo Bryant

For some silly, inane reason, too many of us believe that learning can only take place in monotonous and analgesic environments conducive to most funerals. TPI instructor Milo Bryant shares why fun should be a priority.

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X-Factor Essentials: What it is and How to Train it

By Mike Carroll

TPI Certified fitness professional Michael Carroll (attended Level 1 in the UK in June) examines the relationship between x-factor and ball-striking performance in addition to discussing strength and conditioning strategies for golf.

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Building a Golf Fitness Business: What Do You Do First?

By Fran Rosario

Now that you’ve completed some or all of your TPI Golf Fitness Certification Courses, it’s time to get right to the question that we’re all asking: “What’s next?”

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Dr. Greg Rose Joins The U.S. Kids Golf Podcast

By TPI

Dr. Rose and John Kim discuss important considerations in developing junior golfers and fitness for recreational players.

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6 Exercises Every Hypermobile Golfer Needs

By PFS Fitness

Hypermobile golfers are vulnerable to injury and performance limitations. A common occurrence among young athletes.

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What Research Tells Us About The Impact Of Strength Training On Flexibility And Durability

By Clinton Shum

To formulate a blanket opinion against strength training for all golfers based on isolated instances is failing to have awareness of the big picture.

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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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Mental Game: Brain Training Study With UCLA Golf

By TPI

Study of performance brain training with Division I golfers showed a reduction of 3 putts per round by 9.7%, and an increase greens in regulation by 12%. But that’s not all.

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