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To: rbotik who wrote (37010)	8/22/2000 7:22:42 AM
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OT: For those golf lovers: The Missing Link for Your Golf Game Warm-up stretches can shave strokes off your score By Thomas D. Schram HealthSCOUT Reporter SUNDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthSCOUT) -- You bought clubs that cost as much as a good used car. You took out a loan to join the right country club. And now you see the pro more often than your spouse. What else can you do to take strokes off your golf game? Dr. Timothy Hosea has an idea: Warm up for 10 minutes before you tee off. "It's important to loosen up your back and legs and shoulders to allow you to take a nice smooth swing. This will prevent injury and also improve your game," Hosea, a professor of orthopedic surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., says. He compares the idea to letting a car engine warm up before getting under way. "It's especially important if you're playing in cold weather when it takes a little longer to warm up," he says. Hosea has a stretching program that consists of five exercises performed for two minutes each: Neck rotations: Slowly roll your neck clockwise, then counterclockwise. Shoulder stretch: Raise a golf club over your head with both hands and place it behind your back. Extend your shoulders upward and hold. Remove the club and grab one elbow. Pull the elbow toward the opposite shoulder. Trunk side bends: With hands on hips, bend slowly from side to side. Trunk rotation: Take the position of addressing the ball, but place your hands across your chest so they rest on the opposite shoulders. Without moving the hips, rotate the shoulders in each direction and hold. Toe touches: Stand straight and bend forward from the waist, trying to touch your toes. Go as far as you can without hurting yourself. Bend your knees slightly if necessary. Hold the position and stand up slowly. If you have a bad back, do this exercise sitting on a bench and leaning forward. Hosea says that there is a mental component to stretching before a round. "You'll feel better, you'll feel loose and limber and psychologically you'll be more confident," he says. The older you get, he adds, the more important it is to stretch. That's an issue golf pro Rick Hileman sees regularly in his work. "The need to stretch definitely changes with age. When you're 18 or 19, you can step right up and rip it. But as you get older, the need to stretch beforehand grows," says Hileman, a pro at the Eagles Landing Country Club in Stockbridge, Ga., just south of Atlanta. Hileman tells his players to stretch the arms, shoulders, torso and legs. He recommends using a club to aid stretching and agrees that stretching beforehand can cut strokes from your score. "And it's not only on the course," he says. "I tell them to go down to the practice range and start by taking some half cuts with a wedge and slowly build it up to full swings." Hileman says he feels a real difference in his game when he doesn't warm up properly. "I don't always stretch, and when I don't, I don't start to get loosened up before the second or third hole," he says. The kind of round he's playing sometimes makes the difference. "If I'm going out to just hit with the boys, I walk right up to the first tee. But if I have a match, I'll make sure I warm up at the driving range and do my stretches before I start," the pro says. What To Do Never stretch to the point of pain. If you begin to feel pain while stretching, you are at risk of injury and you should stop immediately. This article from the journal The Physician and Sportsmedicine tells you how to manage golf injuries.