Golf is an athletic, physically demanding game that requires optimal flexibility, strength, balance, skill, and coordination. Flexibility and strength provide the building blocks for the development of stability, balance, coordination and skill and are an important part of any comprehensive sports conditioning program, including golf. No matter your age or ability, proper conditioning will enable you to take advantage of your lessons. Time spent on the range and reduces your risk of injury.
There is an optimum range of motion or flexibility necessary to swing the club around your body while maintaining your posture and keeping your eyes on the ball. Our body is a long chain made up of many links. If there are restrictions within the links then other links are forced to compensate.
The more restrictions there are in a movement, the more inefficient that movement is, the more power we lose and the greater the risk of injury.
Our neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees, ankles, and all soft tissue in between are involved in the golf swing and need to move freely to reduce compensatory movements.
Optimal flexibility makes it easier to maintain our posture and our axis of rotation to keep the club on the proper path for square contact. In a nut shell, flexibility promotes a more consistent, efficient and powerful swing.