7 Golf Exercises to Improve your Golf Game

Imagine coming back from your weekly golf game and you’re startled with a sudden agitation in your back. The pain starts to grow more as you move around. The sheer resilience by you makes it even worse and an even bigger concern. All this can be caused due to soreness in the muscle or it can just be caused by the lack of proper workout or stretching before and after a golf game.

Just like most sports, golf demands athleticism and a proper dietary routine in order to keep you activated as well as defend you from serious injuries.

To help you achieve a fatigueless golf schedule we’ve curated a list of Golf exercises that will surely improve your form, endurance and durability. So whether you’re a budding golfer or a seasoned professional, this article will answer all your questions about golf fitness and athleticism.

Here are 7 Golf Workouts that will Improve your Golf Game

1. Hip Crossovers

How to do it: Lie on your back with your face upwards, keep your hands to your sides and bend your knees with your feet wider than shoulder level. Twist your legs with effectively rotating your abdomen until they reach the ground. One rep is counted when your knees have touched both left and right sides of the ground.

Importance: This exercise targets the lower back and abdominal muscles that help vitalize the hip region that helps in the betterment of your posture and stance.

2. Lateral Squats

How to do it: Stand with your feets stretched wide apart till shoulder level. Bend your right knee and shift your weight to your weight accordingly. Repeat the same on both sides and do this exercise in continuous reps. Increase your pace accordingly.

Importance: The legs play an important role when it comes to movement, agility and stance while swinging your golf club. Lateral squats not only strengthen your quads, they also majorly affect your hamstrings. You can see a number of golfers lateral squatting in the Golden Greens Golf Course every morning.

3. Beast Walk

How to do it: Get into a high plank position by putting your hands and legs on the ground and your stomach way above the ground level. While being in this position lift your knees a few inches from the ground and you are already in the beast position. Start walking in this position font and back in proper hand and leg coordination.

Importance: This workout is mainly to strengthen your shoulders,arms and most importantly your core.

4. Standing Y’s

How to do it: Bend over while standing with your back in a neutral position and your chest upwards. Now raise your arms in a ‘Y’ position and continuously move your arms forward and backwards and focus on the mobility of your shoulder blades.

Importance: Many famous golfers recommend as well as perform this exercise for golf to improve their swinging movements and shoulder mobility.

5. World’s Greatest Stretch

How to do it: Lunge forward with your right leg. Bend forward and place your left arm on the ground and then extend it all the way up in the sky and match your eye movement with the left hand. Repeat the same movement with the other side.

Importance: As the name suggests, the world’s greatest stretch stretches every muscle in your body. From hangs to shoulders, legs to quads and chest to core.

6. Quad Rockers

How to do it: Get down on the ground with all fours facing downwards or in a high plank position. With normal mobility move your hips towards your heel until you start feeling the burn in your quad muscles.

Importance: Quad mobility helps in swinging better and also strengthens your lower back which helps in better posture.

You can perform these movements literally anywhere, even in the golf course depending on different types of the golf grass.

7. Glute Bridge

How to do it: Lie on your back with knees bent approximately 90 degrees. Lift your glutes upwards and keep your feet flat on the ground. Lift your glutes simultaneously in this position and calculate your reps.

Importance: Best movement to mobilize your glutes, back and overall posture. Very effective way of stretching your lower back.

Final Words

We hope this article helped you understand the importance of postures and stretching before playing your weekly game. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know in the comments section below.

Happy Golfing!

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