Golf As A Technical Sport: Golf Is A Technical Sport

Golf is a technical sport. Golfers have traditionally focused on the tactical, technical, and mental aspects of the game rather than muscular strength and power. Many have refrained from resistance training due to the fear it could hinder their flexibility or range of motion. Though this view has recently changed with an increase in professional golfers who began engaging in more and more physical conditioning. There has also been an increase of physical activity emphasis on the collegiate level. The primary goal for the majority of golfers, whether he or she is a recreational or professional, is to drive the ball as far as possible with accuracy, control, and consistency. Now resistance training has become a significant aspect of the game

Exercises such as bench press, wrist curl, squat jumps, and seated medicine ball throws, all have been found to improve either a golfer’s leg strength and/or upper body strength. Though resistance training did not improve to the same extent on high-handicapped golfers, compared to low-handicapped golfers where resistance training showed significant improvements. The most frequent limitations from the sources discussed, is that the sample size of the studies conducted are related small. If the sample sizes would have incorporated more participants, the results could be deemed as more reliable. Also, more participants would enable the researchers to include multiple groups within the studies. These groups could include a control group, experimental group, and even an intervention group. By using multiple groups, it could provide the researchers with how specific exercises benefit or lessen driving distance or club head speed. It could also show provide further information of the most accurate way to maximally improve one’s driving distance and club head speed. Looking forward in my research, I would also like to conduct an interview of a member of either the women’s or men’s golf team to determine what a “normal” week during a golf match would be like. I would then like to compare their practices and/or resistance training program to the studies I have read to compare what the golfers at the University of Mississippi do either alike or