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		Can a Stability Ball Help You Strengthen Your Core For Golf? By Susan Hill Sep 07, 2010 Some call it a Swiss Ball, some call it a fitness ball, others use the more modern term stability ball. Whatever you call it, the stability ball has been used in exercise and rehabilitation for years and has recently been adopted ... Read Article Views: 3169

		Bad Golf Habit or Physical Limitation By Alan L. Hammond GolfersMD News Program Helps Golfers Identify Problems, Make Improvements Aug 30, 2010 Every golfer has components of their golf swing that causes problems. ... Read Article Views: 1373

		Women's Golf And Exercise By Susan Hill Aug 09, 2010 While golf is long overdue to benefit from the application of fitness, thanks to women like Annika Sorenstam, women are now realizing strength training and flexibility conditioning aren’t just for men. The benefits on the golf ... Read Article Views: 2734

		Creating A Golf Fitness Program By Susan Hill Jan 18, 2010 For the average golfer embarking on a total golf fitness program may sound a little overwhelming. Fitting the program into your schedule on a regular basis may seem like something for which you simply don’t have the time. However, ... Read Article Views: 2508

		5 Golf Fitness Tips That Work By Susan Hill Jan 25, 2010 If you have turned on the television to watch any golf tournament over the last couple of years, you obviously already know the strong role that golf fitness plays in improving your golf game. When you engage in a regular fitness ... Read Article Views: 2465

		How Golf Fitness Has Changed The Face Of The PGA Tour By Susan Hill Feb 08, 2010 Professional golfers on the tour today are approaching fitness as they never have before. PGA players look to fitness for many of its benefits. Fitness can improve their game through gains in strength, flexibility, and stamina. They can prevent or ... Read Article Views: 2129

		Focus on Fitness Keeps Norman in the Game By Jul 22, 2008 At the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, Greg Norman competed stroke-for-stroke with golfers twenty years his junior, even holding the 54-hole lead. The conditions were grueling. ... Read Article Views: 1949

		A Little Bit of Exercise Makes the Golf Ball Go a Long Way. By Reviewed by Susan Hill GolfersMD News Jan 12, 2010 According to a recent study, performance in recreational golfers improves after an eight- week golf fitness program. ... Read Article Views: 1851

		Vijay Singh Back in Shape, and Back in the Win Column By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News Aug 04, 2008 With Tiger Woods injured, the call among the fans and media to pick up the slack on the PGA Tour has grown louder. One of the names most prominent on everybody’s list has been Vijay Singh. ... Read Article Views: 1832

		Today's Golf Schools Bring Instruction And Golf Fitness By Susan Hill Aug 23, 2010 What comes to mind when you think of golf lessons through a golf school? Do you imagine hours of instruction on the range and putting green? Maybe the school teaching professionals will review the fundamentals and even include a golf ... Read Article Views: 1784

		Tiger Woods is the Fittest Guy in America By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News May 23, 2008 "It would be asinine for someone not to work out and go play football. It doesn't make sense for golf, either." So says the world’s number one golfer, and perhaps the greatest golfer of all time. ... Read Article Views: 1670

		Upper Cross Syndrome May Impact Your Golf Swing By Bob Forman, GolfersMD.com News Feb 22, 2010 The computer age has done wonders for bringing the world closer together, but it’s ruining our golf swings. ... Read Article Views: 1549

		Golf Fitness Training: A Little Training will Go a Long Way By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD Health News Apr 13, 2010 It’s no secret that resistance and flexibility training can have a positive impact on a person’s athletic golf performance. ... Read Article Views: 1421

		Golf Fitness and Spa Amenities Combined for Women Golfers By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News Jun 06, 2008 Women golfers trying to decide between working on their golf game and a relaxing spa retreat no longer have to choose. ... Read Article Views: 1420

		What Can A Single Digit Handicap Golfer Do That You Can't? By Susan Hill Jan 25, 2010 Chances are that if you’re an avid golfer, you’d love to be a single digit handicap golfer. So what do these golfers have that you don’t? You may be thinking they’re simply “better golfers,” and that may be true, but odds are ... Read Article Views: 1385

		How is Your Golf Stamina On The Back Nine? By Susan Hill Jul 06, 2010 Loss of golf stamina and endurance toward the end of an eighteen-hole round of golf happens to many golfers ... Read Article Views: 1279

		Year End Review. Look Back and Move Forward. By John Steinbreder, GolfersMD News Reviewed by the GolfersMD Medical Review Board. Dec 14, 2009 For serious golfers, the holiday season is good for more than just loading up on turkey and stuffing. It is also the perfect time to work on their games - and use what they did in 2009 to improve their performances in 2010. ... Read Article Views: 1159

		Finding a Personal Trainer for Golf Fitness By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News Apr 13, 2010 Over the last decade, fitness has become an important part of a golfer’s routine. ... Read Article Views: 1145

		Golf Fitness for the Casual Golfer By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News Mar 16, 2010 Despite the look of some high profile, high visibility golfers, golfers are athletes. ... Read Article Views: 1109

		Help for the “Weekend Warrior" By Alan L. Hammond GolfersMD News Tips to Prepare the Body for Weekend Fun Jun 14, 2010 The grind of Monday through Friday often leads people toward cramming several days of fun into a few precious weekend hours. ... Read Article Views: 961

		Golf Can Extend Your Life By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News Apr 05, 2010 There are tons of so-called "golf widows" across the globe who swear by the old saying that their spouses “live and breathe golf.” ... Read Article Views: 898

		At Age 47, Perry Wins and Gets Memorial Trifecta By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News Jun 02, 2008 When Kenny Perry read Paul Azinger’s comments in a newspaper, he was disappointed. ... Read Article Views: 816

		Jet Lag – What A Drag for Traveling Golfers By John Steinbreder, GolfersMD News Nov 18, 2008 ‘Tis the season for long distance golf travel, especially for those on the professional golf tours. Just this past weekend, for example, Padraig Harrington and Phil Mickelson competed in the Singapore Open. ... Read Article Views: 747

		Summiting – Three Days in Anaheim By John Steinbreder, GolfersMD News Oct 21, 2008 The Titleist Performance Institute hosted the third annual World Golf Fitness Summit in Anaheim, California this past weekend, and perhaps nothing has demonstrated so completely this year the growing importance of health and fitness in the golf industry. ... Read Article Views: 723

		Vijay Sits with a Rib Injury By Alan L. Hammond, GolfersMD News May 31, 2008 One week after withdrawing from the BMW PGA Championship in Wentworth, U.K., Vijay Singh elected to sit out ... Read Article Views: 607

		Mobile Fitness Re-Shaping Pro Golf Tours By Alan Hammond, GolfersMD Health News May 31, 2010 Forever-young golf icon, Gary Player, was decades ahead of his time in many ways, not the least of which was in his focus on fitness. In his heyday, Player had to remain fit simply to keep up with the demands of a global schedule and lifestyle, well before most people traveled frequently out of their home zip code. ... Read Article Views: 485

		Warm Up May Increase Golf Club Head Speed By By GolfersMD Reporter, Reviewed by Susan Hill Study Shows Improvement Over Time with Golf-Specific Exercises Prior to Swing Jun 14, 2010 October 17, 2007 (GolfersMD News) --After completing a study with 20 men to determine the effects of a golf-specific warm up program on club head speed, resulting data looks positive. ... Read Article Views: 402

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