Are you above 50 years old? Do you stop playing golf because you fear injury? If you still want to play, you may need to make some adjustments on how you grip your golf club. This is to ensure that you will not develop golfer’s wrist or hamate bone.
What is golfer’s wrist?
Golfer’s wrist is an injury in the wrist where you feel tenderness and pain. This injury may need surgery and takes time to heal. To help senior golfers, Johnny Miller has a revised his teaching to conform to the senior’s bone condition. Following his instructions will help you continue enjoying the game and avoiding injury.
Swing for seniors
The concepts of golf swing for seniors is just like the golf swing for younger players, your start from the backswing, then hit the ball on the downswing and make a follow-through. However, one minor revision that Johnny Miller teaches is to cock the hands on the backswing and keep the right elbow close to the hip.
While for younger players, back swing is done by stretching the arms fully to make a wide arc as you bring down the club towards the downswing. Cocking the club will come later, as compared to the senior where cocking comes earlier.
Still the swing needs power, but seniors are advised to be more strategic rather than exert greater power that may put them at risk. If you usually reach 300 yards when you are younger, hitting the ball after 50 can be 200 yards or less. You only need to make sure that the direction is still there.
Stretching is necessary
If you are more than 50 and you still want to enjoy golfing and other fun activities, it may help to prepare yourself for the physicality of the activities.
Do some stretching exercises on a regular basis. This will help you prepare for any game you want to enjoy including golf.
To help you continue improving your game even after age 50, you may need a mentor that knows golf and should be more than 50 as well. Why is this so, this is to make sure that your mentor or coach understands the risk and thus will be able to teach you techniques that will not lead to problems later on.
Golfer’s wrist is painful and even if it is detected early, it may need months to heal and surgery in inevitable.
Thus, to make sure you will not succumb to hamate bone or golfer’s wrist, ensure proper handling of the golf club. If you may need to change your golf club for a comfortable game, then do it.
You however do not need to purchase costly golf clubs; your comfort is the focus and you should try to look for your golf club intelligently.
Finally, walking is another form of exercise; avoid using the golf cart. However, if you must make sure it is what your coach has advised. Your doctor should also have a say, if you can continue golf. Thus, check him out first before you continue golfing.
As a senior citizen, you will need to look after your health. Exercise is good but please your doctor needs to know what activities you get yourself into. He will therefore give you the advice you need. If golfing is allowed, then, do it and enjoy playing.
Do you play golf for money? Teach golf or run golf clubs? If so, you are then golf professional or colloquially called pro golfer. If you want to play in an amateur tournament, you cannot. Even if you have received money for playing golf even just once, you will be able to go back to your amateur status.
Therefore, if you are already a professional golfer, you can only join professional golfers’ tournament. There are many golf tournaments for professional golfers and you surely will enjoy your status as professional golfer.
However, if you have received money for playing golf only once, and that you are not so confident in joining professional golf tournament, you may therefore transfer your knowledge to other means. That is, teach golf to beginners, run golf courses or enter the business of selling golf equipments.
For professional golfers, it is also necessary that you join golf associations this will give you variety of options should competing on tournament is no longer your intention.
If you however are an amateur, you may of course want to become a professional golfer. Professional golfers are mostly the elite and rich individuals to play golf for pleasure. However, once a professional golfer, it is almost impossible for you to go back to your status as an amateur. Thus, as an amateur learn everything you can and join tournaments to improve your game and enjoy the moment.
This is because once you have reach the level of a professional golfer, there may already be limited options for you. You may either play on professional golfers’ tournaments or teach the craft to new players.
As mentioned, mostly professional golfers are the elite and rich individuals, but if you are like me, I get bored easily, you may need to divert your golf knowledge into more useful endeavors.
You might just as well, develop your own golf course and run a golfing club. You may still enjoy playing and teaching new and aspirant golfers.
Your experience and advice will be invaluable for beginning golfers and you will surely feel the importance of being a professional golfer helping them.
Some of the things you need to teach younger players include the following:
- Proper choice of golf clubs
- Rules and regulations of golfing
- Golf etiquette
- Techniques on how to deliver the perfect swing, which you may have mastered by now
- Patience, which is extremely important in this game
These are only a few of the teachings you may need to transfer to younger golf players.
Another option is for you to develop a website that will help golfers from other parts of the world. Give the advice that will make them play a better game.
Finally, because surely you have experience an injury or two while playing golf, you may also help develop a forum in which you can help golfers avoid injury and this includes avoiding hamate bone or golfer’s wrist.
We love seeing professional golfers and you surely have our respect, enjoy and have fun playing and helping new golfers.
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