Being able to measure the muscular timing perfectly is an unbelievable advantage.

Knowing exactly what you improved and exactly how you improved it is the key we have been looking for, for ever.

For years players have had good and bad stretches and had no idea why. To have the physical side of golf beaten lets us attack the mental and emotional side with full power.

Timing well done, leaves us with so much more confidence to zero in on the important judgements that mean the difference between winning and loosing.

In stead of worrying about the swing we can go full out on strategies, the foundation of our work and tactics, the details of it all.

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Nice post Dart,
How can we train some thing we can see is the question. The ground initiates motion how can we determine if we are using the ground right if we can see it?
How can we train the muscles if we don’t know how they are functioning during a motion like the golf swing?
How do we know what our swing sequence is if we can’t measure it?
The golf swing sequence is rotational movements our eyes or a 2D video they are unable to measure this.

Have a think about it and ask yourself has any one been ever able to show you exactly what your muscles are doing in your swing, The actual rate in they stretch and shorten in speed out put?
Or exactly at what point they have been utilised?
Have you been shown the rotational speeds of each body segment and what sequence they are moving in?
So your trying ti improve your golf but you don’t know how your body is truly moving how do we expect to improve?

Forming a kinetic link may well be the answer to all our golf swing problems, it may not. Not to be disrespectful, I for one will be getting my biomechanics advice from someone with both formal qualifications and experience.

Physics and anatomy are both too complex to learn quickly by themselves, let alone how they combine, unless one is truly a genius. Mechanisms of injury add even more complex layer.

Passion is great, but is hollow when talking about real science.

Are there any links to journals or other scientific publications that would help to shed some more scientific light on Zenolink/biomechanics for those members of this forum with an interest in the science/testing methodology used in developing your sytems.

I really believe a more even handed, concilatory approach would be of benefit to you Zenst, often I think you are doing your business/cause more harm than good by the way you communicate with people on this forum.

I also think The Dart could benefit from doing some research into ‘Pots’, ‘Kettles’ and ‘Black’

I just want to clear the air a bit here, some people have made accusations about the kinetic link and that not 1 worlds best athlete didn’t have one. This is very untrue and I have never said that this at all, my words were twisted. These guys may not have had perfect kinetic links, although overall they moved pretty well and all they need was fine tuning to their kinetic links. Like break downs in the lower body mechanics etc. In the end they were pretty much perfect. But as human beings we have to take into account we aren’t all going to be perfect due to physical limitations, structural issues.
These top athletes in tennis, base ball, golf and may other sports prove the theoretical theory of the Kinetic link to be true in a practice as well.

How the kinetic link came about was in the 1950’s two physic lectures come up with a theory using newton’s laws on how the muscles accelerate body segments. There theory was larger muscles drives smaller muscles, larger segments drives smaller muscles This theory was proven in biomechanics when researchers started measure athletes in the sports I previously mentioned they found these guys in the different sports had this similar pattern, larger muscles driving smaller muscles, larger segments driving smaller segments.
How ZenoLink came about. CW was a biomedical engineer after completing his degree in 91 he accepted a fellowship in biomechanics American Sports Medical Institute as a golf research coordinator. He was the first person to write a feature article on ground forces for golf digest in 91, he also did a long term project for Footjoy world wide.
When they were researching golf, they were researching, What causes injuries or potential injuries in the golf swing and how does the body anatomically move most efficiently in the swing.
They tested the top 100 players from the 80’s and 90’s, what they found is they all had similarities in common in movement which was some form a kinetic link. Non were perfect and all had different break downs in movement, although they all moved in a similar sequence. This matched the kinetic link model from the 1950’s. Also the kinetic was was the most anatomical correct way to move with in the way our body is designed to function and move. The injuries players had we a result of the break downs in movement in their kinetic link. A pattern started to appearing over and over the players tested.
In 92 CW took a the role as Sports Medicine Researcher at Biomotion Foundation. CW continued his research with golf and also began testing other sports and baseball. This is when ZenoLink was founded. (back then its was called BioLink).
Major league Baseballers came in they spent 2 hours suiting up using a skin tight suits and out reflective markers on them to bet tested. In the end players and coaches said that they don’t want to waste time suiting up they want to be tested in their environment with out wires or sensors. CW then started engineering biomechanic technology to be able to measure athletes out doors no wires and sensors, which lead to the product service we know as ZenoLink today.

To Be Continued.

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So any way in 92, When they were researching at biomotion they used 3 types of technology to research human motion. They used a Vicon software with skin tight type leotards and reflective markers and cameras from every angle. They used EMG where they hook you up to measure muscles groups in each body segment.
The other technology used was force plate data using force plates to measure the ground. During CW’s time there he was involved in re-designing clinical evaluation software for Motion Analysis Corporation as well as developing techniques for integrating Motion, Force and EMG technology.
The reason why all three technologies is used, if your going to apply the laws of motion you need to measure all the forces applied to a system. First the ground creating equal opposite force reactions. The muscles drive or accelerate each segment and biomechanics to measure rotational components.
Using these technologies they research base ball and developed a program for evaluating performance and injury potential as it pertains to baseball hitting and throwing. What was founded is the similarities in how a pitcher or hitter produce movement speed and power as golf. The was they created ground forces similar patterns, how the muscles functioned were the same using stretch/shorten cycle. The sequence, ground, hips, upper body and arms same.
Going back to when Biolink of ZenoLink was started. The base ball players and tour players didn’t want to put on leotards, they wanted
to be tested in their environment with no wires or sensor either.
CW then work on firstly being able to take the biomechanics out of the lab needing special light conditions and leotards. To being able to measure out doors with no wires and sensors. This wasn’t any easy task because the data had to be PHD quality data for publishing etc and of course being accurate data. Once he conquered this the next part was integrating the ability to measure the muscles and how to measure the ground. Once this was achieved CW decided to take this from the lab to the clinical arena so coaches, doctors, physio could measure their athletes an patients biomechanics. CW and his father who worked for IBM then created an online Internet format which now allows coaches all over the world to send data to the lab for processing.

To Be continued.

Zen

The whole thread seems to dominated by the kinetic link, ground forces etc and the full golf swing.

I am having a lot of trouble putting at the moment, does Zenolink offer any advice on movement patterns?

I have 60 weight on from foot and try to maintain that throughout just like chipping.

If Zenolink does not address this is this not a major flaw in the program given putting is such a large of the game?

John Huggan on the passing of Seve – “Sadly for all who love golf as the art form it is meant to be and not the science it has become, we may never see his like again.”

Shanks,
We do putting as well, what I did is created a video I hope this will help you.
Putting Break downs

Hi Fellow Readers,
I quickly slapped together a 5 minute video on a gentleman’s golf swing, what it was like before doing ZenoLink and how his swing looks today as he is progressing continually doing ZenoLink.
This gentleman had a back injury and as a result needed surgery. He also had a lost part of his lat muscles, this poor guy has been in the wars. Prior to doing ZenoLink he couldn’t play any more than 9 holes, due to the pain from his back issues. He couldn’t play for a week afterwards apparently pulling up sore. Now this gentleman can play 18 holes with no pain, he no longer pulls up sore the next day and he can play as often as he likes.
He’s gone from 32 to down to around 14 or 12 handicap mark last I heard.

Before and after doing ZenoLink

very nice zen,i like his pivot as u say he has a lot to go but its a start to keep him playing good on ya

Zen

Thanks heaps, recognized my faults instantly, putter stopping virtually at ball and hips moving slightly open through impact, thus pulling putts.

My mistake it would appear has been to always only think about keeping my head still with no regard to the lower body.

Let me guess the pro must have been POM.

Thanks once again for the effort you have made, it will help and will probably help plenty of others.

Keep up the great work.

Cheers

Shanks

Zen, thanks very much for that video. Excellent stuff. And timely for me with the chipping!

I hope people appreciate this sort of intensive – and free – advice. This is really valuable stuff.

very nice zen,i like his pivot as u say he has a lot to go but its a start to keep him playing good on ya

Thanks Foster,
What’s nice is he has a smile on his face and he’s happy. Now he can enjoy his golf pain free. That’s all that counts. All he wanted is to play better pain free and he achieved that.
He now has a goal to get to single figures, which well over 12 months ago he would have never contemplated he’d ever be able to consider setting a goal to achieve this.
He knows he has a long road to go and I really admire this guy. He has to work harder than most so he can play golf. Go to phsyio, do stretches every day, go to the gym to strengthen his back He does his ZenoLink training three times a week.
He works hard and deserves to achieve his goals.

Zen

Thanks heaps, recognized my faults instantly, putter stopping virtually at ball and hips moving slightly open through impact, thus pulling putts.

My mistake it would appear has been to always only think about keeping my head still with no regard to the lower body.

Let me guess the pro must have been POM.

Thanks once again for the effort you have made, it will help and will probably help plenty of others.

Keep up the great work.

Cheers

Shanks

John Huggan on the passing of Seve – “Sadly for all who love golf as the art form it is meant to be and not the science it has become, we may never see his like again.”

Your welcome Shanks, glad the info helped you :)
With the equal acceleration give this time to master and don’t give up on this. It’s going to take time to change your old habits, if you persevere, it will pay off in the end.Give yourself at least a few months to master it, learn to trust it as well this will take time as well. :)
Make sure your work on a nice even pendulum speed, the back swing and follow through are equal in speed. Take the putter back at a smooth speed.
I had an over acceleration issue and when I took the putter back further to keep my stroke even as my follow throw if felt like i was going to smash the ball 10 ft past, that didn’t happen, I felt very uncomfortable for a while and was hard to trust. Now it feels awesome .

If it feels uncomfortable we just have to get out of our comfort zone and keep working at equal acceleration until it becomes comfortable .
Keep me posted on how your putting is going. :)

Nice thread….I think…that said i had to reach for the dictionary
after reading about 4 lines…..

so bye from me…play on

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Dave1,
Don’t worry about the technical side of this stuff, the athlete doesn’t realise they do all this stuff high tech stuff. All they are trying to do ishit the base ball.
To learn to do this you training your coordination patterns and all this technical stuff occurs with out thinking.

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OK having read further and I have coached others sports I understand what you’re saying (kind of)

I have often said you can improve your golf thru non golf drills….

in fact I have seen guys improve in 1 month without hitting a a ball…

yes I believe the sub conscious mind is very powerful too when learnt

Nice thread….I think…that said i had to reach for the dictionary
after reading about 4 lines…..

so bye from me…play on

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Dave1,
Don’t worry about the technical side of this stuff, the athlete doesn’t realise they do all this stuff high tech stuff. All they are trying to do is hit the base ball.
To learn to do this by training your coordination patterns and all this technical stuff occurs with out thinking.

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OK having read further and I have coached others sports I understand what you’re saying (kind of)

I have often said you can improve your golf thru non golf drills….

in fact I have seen guys improve in 1 month without hitting a a ball…

yes I believe the sub conscious mind is very powerful too when learnt

“Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.”

Dave,
What were are training is neuromechanics, to coordinate movement patterns. As an example when we walk to achieve this with out thinking. When we train some ones kinetic link in any given sport we are teaching them how to coordinate and facilitate movement, speed and power with out thinking.

Tennis, golf and baseball all use different techniques to play each sport, although how their body coordinates movement and speed etc is the same sequence and coordination patterns.
So all we do is train these patterns, the athletes still needs to learn the techniques required for each sport to play the game.

If some one learns to create the same repetitive movement over and over without having to think about it, how easy is it to learn the technique. If they can’t create the same repetitive movement what hope have they improving or applying good technique.
You technique is limited to how well we can facilitate movement.

This is why we called ourselves ZenoLink, Zeno challenged the mathematics world he was prove wrong. But how we look it, and how this relates to us is, what we are doing with ZenoLink is changing traditional training concepts and beliefs. Of course people are going to be resilient to our concepts it goes against or what they know and have learnt, they will attack it, bag it or what ever, they feel we are challenging them.
Really it’s not at all. This is some thing they can integrate and add to what they do already now. They just need to get their head around it first and understand the concepts. This all take time of course to grasp and digest for them. Which I totally understand.

On Sunday I’ll be testing a amputee who plays golf, hope fully with permission this person will allow us to chat about her data.
CW did some work with Vietnam amputee victims in the US, there out look on life is truly inspiring.
This person is a world champion in another sport so I hope consent is given to name who this person is and show the data. Which will be really interesting for every one.

I can really relate to them in a lot ways, I know what it is like to have physical limitation. I spent time in a wheel chair, know how it feels not being able to walk. Then having to face you may never walk again was frighten, the fear is hard to put into words.
I had two close encounters of not surviving during theatre and then the next 12 months was touch and go. The fear you face every day and mental side was the hardest to over come.

You see people who went to Vietnam or any war and facing fear of death everyday. Among other things the mental damage people can’t begin to understand. Top it off some loose limbs etc.

What inspires me with them, is how positive they are. They have no self pity and make the best of their life they can. They don’t play the victim which I respect and admire.
My pet dislike is people playing a victim, feel sorry for themselves, the world owes you something.
The truth is we are all in the same boat and all have our own battles, we can get bogged down in negative crap. Or we can rise to the occasion and enjoy life to the fullest.

What gave me strength to survive my accident.
My father and I were out working on the farm one evening and we looked up at the stars and got chatting.
He said boy this is a beautiful world, he said it will also be cruel, if you get knocked down, you get up again and dust or your off hat. Some one knocks you down get up and knock them down twice as hard. (don’t let people walk over you.) He said if you don’t stay strong this world can and will bring you down.
Forget about the bad times and remember the good times.

The words I never forget is he said boy Life is as good as you make, you can pick and choose what life you live, you can make it hard or easy it’s up to you.
But always remember this is life is an good as you make it and this is a beautiful world it just depends on how you want to see it through your eyes.

To be honest my father was hard as nails on me but at the same time generous loving and caring man, with the biggest heart of gold.
I’m glad he was hard as nails on me, he prepared me for life and if he wasn’t, I don’t think I would have survived my accident.
He gave me words of wisdom which help me get through bad times to see the good times. I’m one lucky dude to have an inspiration in my life like dad.

We can learn off these amazing people who have seen some tough times in life and be truly inspired from them.

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Out of Interest how has had an injury in golf? What type of injury did you have?

Here is some pretty cool information for every one to read. We have access to Sports Medicine Research. This article is about Acute Effects of Static and Dynamic Stretching on Hip Dynamic Range of Motion During Instep Kicking in Professional Soccer Players.
CW did similar research for golf with Peter Draovitch( Greg Norman personal trainer). They tested a population of golfers doing static and dynamic Stretching.
This is the soccer article enjoy this applies for golf as well.

The range of motion available at a joint is crucial to athletic performance. There are many methods of stretching, but the two most popular types are static (stretching the muscle to its end range and holding for a duration) and dynamic (stretching during a sports-specific motion). Stretching has been demonstrated to increase joint range of motion when measured statically but very few studies have evaluated the influence of stretching on range of motion during functional sport tasks. Amiri-Khorasani and colleagues assessed the influence of static and dynamic stretching on dynamic range of motion (DROM) of the hip during instep kicking among 18 professional Iran Première league soccer players with no past medical history of lower extremity injury. Each participant performed 3 different warm-up protocols (static, dynamic, and no stretching) on 3 nonconsecutive days, at least 72 hours after either competition or hard physical training. Participants were divided into 3 groups which performed the stretches in different orders (for example one group performed static stretching on day 1 while another group performed dynamic stretching on day 1). Each day’s warm-up consisted of jogging (4 minutes), stretching (which varied each day), rest (2 minutes), and 5 soccer instep kicks. Stretches were performed bilaterally on multiple muscle groups (e.g., gastrocnemius, hamstrings, hip flexors). During instep kicking, participants were given a starting point to limit frontal plane movement, and asked to kick a ball 11 m towards a 2 X 2 m target. Reflective markers and motion analysis cameras measured hip DROM during the kick. The authors found significant differences in DROM during the forward phase of kicking, the follow-through phase, as well as during whole phases in the dynamic stretching group compared to the static stretching group. No differences between stretches were found during the backswing phase. In brief, dynamic stretching increased DROM relative to no stretching and more so than static stretches.

This study presents a very interesting case for the implementation of dynamic stretching in warm-ups. Implementing dynamic stretches into warm-up also makes sense since it can be sport specific. The study was also interesting because it assessed the benefits of dynamic stretching during sport specific tasks. Hopefully, more studies will pursue this model to evaluate the influence of dynamic stretching on performance. While current literature demonstrates the benefits of dynamic stretching, clinical implementation of dynamic stretching protocols, will be much more challenging. Not only will clinicians be required to educate their patients but proper education of coaches will also be critical. Do you deal with this in your practice? Have you attempted to implement any dynamic stretching into your athlete’s warm up? How have your athlete’s responded? Have you seen a decrease in injuries? Furthermore, what strategies did you use, or tried, to educate others such as coaches to the benefits of dynamic stretching?

Written by: Kyle Harris Reviewed by: Jeffrey Driban

In golf findings were similar I’ll elaborate more shortly.

I have had 2 injuries I can think of.

The primary one was serious soreness in the hips and lower back.

The other has been left elbow soreness and tenderness.

Zen, I lived my life in long drive being hurt – overtraining, over exertion and sub par mechanics… Apart from having shit shoulders from baseball that constantly got sore, the worst golf related injuries I have had have been in left wrist and left elbow.

You know me though mate, “Pain is only weakness leaving the body!” lol… Sometimes you got to play and compete less than 100%. I don’t recommend it, but at the competitive level sometimes you got to suck it up and get the job done.

Since going back to a good golf swing and working on my movement patterns, the worst thing I have had to date is a blister ;) Even after hitting 100+ drives at last weeks corporate day, I wasn’t fatigued and I wasn’t even sore in the days following. That speaks volumes mate. Normally I book in for an hour massage 1-2 days post a corporate appearance.

I have had 2 injuries I can think of.

The primary one was serious soreness in the hips and lower back.

The other has been left elbow soreness and tenderness.

Every swing is an 8 iron swing!

Weeties,
In the past in 2009 your hips were sliding and the left hip was higher than the right into impact. When the lower body slides you are moving at high speeds. This put shear force on your hip joint centres over due time it will eventually wear out your hip joint centre.(ouch hip replacement). This can cause tears in the gluts, hami’s, quads, as a worse case scenario. With this action you will pull up with stiffness with all three muscles, over time leading to tendon tears. This builds up to having tendinitis around your hips joint centre etc. The snow ball effect :)

The lower back issues were a result of two contributing factors.
The hips sliding and to much excessive left bending and extension of the upper body in your back swing. On the downswing swing excessive extension and right lateral bending. The spine for left and right lateral bending has a limited range of motion to bend either way. What happens is the upper body is moving at high speeds rotationally.( double of your hips speed). When you bend excessively particularly on the down swing, this puts huge shear forces on the spine. You get hyperextension on the left side and you compress the right side of your spine. So you can tear you lats, abdominal and lower back muscles, you get tightness in these regions, soreness, the list goes on.

All this above also contributes to your elbow soreness. Because the upper body has excessive right lateral bending, this kinks the spine and stops rotation of the upper body. The arms fly off the body early, then you use superficial arm speeds to stop mechanical break downs at impact.
In the process the arms keep accelerating into impact and they cope the blow of impact and the impact of the ground, instead of the club taking the blow. You pull hard on the grip into impact with your left arm. (I Hope this makes sense as an example). If you are chopping wood and you pull down on the handle until the blow you’ll feel the force go up into your elbow. If you keep your arms passive let them fall and decelerate or stop the hands prior to the blow, the axe accelerates into the wood. The axes absorbs the blow not the arms or elbow joints. I hope this makes sense.

What we did weeties is improved your lower body mechanics and reduce your sliding, improved your rotation around the axis of the spine and taught you how to decelerate your arms so the club takes the blow at impact. We began to work on training you how to coordinate better patterns, not only to improve your ball striking but also to reduce your injuries. We haven’t continued training with you to get into the fun stuff yet:)
Injuries in golf are due to poor coordination patterns and a break down of movement in your kinetic link.

Zen, I lived my life in long drive being hurt – overtraining, over exertion and sub par mechanics… Apart from having shit shoulders from baseball that constantly got sore, the worst golf related injuries I have had have been in left wrist and left elbow.

You know me though mate, “Pain is only weakness leaving the body!” lol… Sometimes you got to play and compete less than 100%. I don’t recommend it, but at the competitive level sometimes you got to suck it up and get the job done.

Since going back to a good golf swing and working on my movement patterns, the worst thing I have had to date is a blister ;) Even after hitting 100+ drives at last weeks corporate day, I wasn’t fatigued and I wasn’t even sore in the days following. That speaks volumes mate. Normally I book in for an hour massage 1-2 days post a corporate appearance.

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Blister is pretty serious Ab the worse injury you could ever encounter we better resolve this :)
AB it would be good to share with us the discovery between trying to create superficial speeds to create power and speed and actually using a kinetic link as the power generation process. You have first hand experience.

No worries Zen, the biggest difference? The amount of physical effort required in my golf swing…

When I was long driving I actually felt I was trying to swing hard and fast. The effort factor was at 110%. My golf swing actually exhausted me.

Currently my golf swing feels effortless, I use the sequence, the ground and the leverage in the swing to accelerate the clubhead. The effort factor is down to 60-70% and I know it sounds weird but I feel energised swinging the club. I am never tired on the course anymore from the first swing to the last.

It was hard to trust that from the initial outset being in the sport I was in, my initial resistance was “how can I create maximum power from not giving it my all?”

The other big difference I noticed was changing the length of my driver (which you and Chris had suggested more than once). I definitely acknowledge now that when something is too dynamically heavy (as most current length drivers are) I had no choice but to apply superficial speed – whether it was spinning the hips and shoulders too hard, whether it was sliding too much or whether it was wailing away with my arms (as you know I had all of these going on at once at times).

However with a dynamically optimal driver set up, my body no longer breaks down and tries to add a superficial effort component. It creates sequential speed rather than a forced speed.

Given the difference in driver length and loft now, I actually feel that I am consistently longer (and in play) off the tee. The scary thing is that I know if I needed it, I could pull another 20-30 metres out on demand by adding some hand/arm drive. But playing golf now, I don’t need this very much and so for the most part I can concentrate on just allowing my body to create its own speed and focus on hitting the ball solidly.

I am also in no doubt as these movement patterns get stronger, I will get longer with less effort again. The bracing (super stiffening) is the biggest key I know which gives me tremendous impact acceleration.

This video I said I would post from the other thread Trying to make it on US Tour.
This video goes over Clarks data and training and what Clark is doing to improve his coordination patterns. We speak about how we get him in peak condition leading into US Tour Q-school coming up.
This gives you great inside to what types of training the US Players do to increase their performance on tour.

Clark finished 30th at the ’09 NCAA Division 1 national golf championship, qualified for the U.S. Open and just missed reaching the final stage of PGA Tour Q-School.
We’ll take about what preparation, training, the improvement process and hard work put in preparing for Q school for his tour card for 2012.

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Awesome stuff Zen, really interesting and good info. I think the major point I certainly take out of it is this….

If the downswing takes less than half a second and all the segments fire in sequential order (which would make their seperation fractions of a second) there is NO WAY we could ever consciously learn or control this motion. The only way to truly change this is through skill training drills and through functional strength and conditioning exercises.

We must train it, not learn it. And through our training we must then have the confidence and trust to give up total control and allow our trained learning to function for us.

Great stuff Zen, thanks for sharing.

AB,
You hit the nail on the head, in golf we are only getting parts of the story and not the full picture. In the live interview Clark Klaasen talks about what it takes to make it on tour.( In the try to make it on US tour thread).
There is there is the full story, what we do is an add on to your field of strengthening and condition, we do functional training although training functional patterns or coordination patterns. The athlete still needs to go to strengthening and condition coaches as well.

Golf swing mechanics are important although only part of the full story if you want to play on the US tour. You need guys like yourself and biomechanics, mental coaches. The list goes on anything that gives these guys an edge they go for it.

It’ a survival of the fittest out there now and really always has been. The days of drinking beers and relying on talent alone have gone.
These days guys are equally as talented as each other and they now work harder than ever and looking for that edge. The better the condition your body is in, the better you can move and the better patterns you are able to coordinate in your swing.
The fittest men dominant, look at the last 2 or 3 eras, as a example Norman he was super fit, Tiger was as well.

If people think they are going to play the US tour, don’t work out, keep fit, do biomechanics etc they are kidding themselves. They are going to get left behind and have any empty bank account. The boys at the top work hard, do fitness, biomechanics etc to stay on top. They need any edge they can get to be competitive each week.
These guys are looking for any edge even 1% or 5% gains all counts in the end.
It’s tough out there, the year is long and the body cops a flogging, you need to keep fit and strong to endure the year, mentally and physically.

I had my first ever hole in 1 on Sunday at National Golf Club, hit the perfect 6 iron, the ball faded in nicely and covered the flag all the way. The I heard to click when the ball hit the pin.
You bloody beauty, I hope every golfer gets to experience a hole 1 one day. What a buzz.