Are you a golfer who is struggling with pain, injury, or want to improve your ability to swing a golf club and play better golf?

Do you want to hit the ball farther with less effort?

Do want to stay in shape and be able to play golf pain-free?

Do you want to increase your swing speed?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, you’ve come to the right place.

We help golfers move better, feel better, and play better. We are golf movement specialists.

PAR5 Physical Therapy can help you improve your golf game.

Contact PAR 5 PT to schedule a discovery visit

Are you wondering what the PAR5 PT Golf Fitness Program looks like?

At PAR5 Physical Therapy we specialize in helping golfers of all skill levels improve their golf game We use a 3 step process to improve your fitness level and your ability to swing a golf club.

1. Perform a Golf Performance Assessment

Every athlete is unique. We start with a conversation about your fitness and golf goals. What do you want to accomplish? How do you want your golf game to change? How do you want your body to change? Do you want to hit the ball farther? Do you have any pain when you swing a golf club?

We then perform a physical exam, which includes the TPI Golf Movement Screen. The Golf Movement Screen is a 16-point test, developed by the Titleist Performance Institute to help professional and amateur golfers unlock their golf performance potential. It assesses joint mobility, flexibility, stability, strength, balance, and coordination. We can reveal movement deficits that can impact your body’s ability to rotate and create power and speed during the golf swing. From the test results, we can even infer the causes of swing faults and swing characteristics.

If you have issues maintaining your spine angle or swing plane, it may be due to deficits in your ability to rotate your torso or how your body moves to initiate your downswing.

We find that some golfers have tight mid-backs, which can prevent a full back swing. Improving torso rotation can improve club head position, spine angle, and reduce low back pain. Another common deficit is the inability to dissociate the upper body from the lower body, which leads to a steeper swing plane and loss of distance.

The Golf Performance Assessment also includes: a Physical Evaluation, Strength and Power Assessment, Swing Speed Assessment, and Exercise Program recommendations.

Addressing your physical limitations will have a direct effect on your golf swing and your golf performance.

2. Develop a custom-designed fitness program

After the interview and physical exam, we create and build a fitness program that will improve your mobility, strength, and skill. Not all exercise programs are created equal. This golf-specific training program will improve your torso rotation flexibility, your hip and pelvis rotation speed, your core stability, and your hip strength - all components to a tour-level golf swing.

The golf fitness plan is specifically designed for each individual athlete to address their needs. At PAR5 Physical Therapy, we work with you every rep of the way so you can be sure that you’re performing each exercise properly. Unlike any exercise program that you can get in a magazine or a Google search, this golf fitness program incorporates mobility and stretching exercises, strength training, plyometric training, and cardiovascular endurance training. It even will include manual therapy if needed.

Manual Therapy is a method of using hands-on, targeted treatment that can rapidly restore your mobility and reduce pain before doing any exercise. We use different tools that can help you feel better by performing the following:

Break up scar tissue from previous injuries
Unlock stiff and achy joints
Release tight knots or spasms that create tightness or discomfort
Increase circulation into problem areas

3. Build your body’s resiliency

The third step is to make your body resilient. Our goal is always to return you to doing the things you love to do without worrying about re-injury.

This involves preventing bad movement compensations and habits that you may have developed over time like:

Shifting too much weight on the trail leg and not getting to your left side on the down swing.
Lifting your arms too much in the back swing to create more width in your golf swing.
Hitting fat or thin shots because your adjusting your swing plane too much with your arms.

You may be unaware of these bad habits. These prolonged compensations can cause the brain to interpret certain movements and positions as harmful or wrong. Most exercise programs only address strength or mobility, but don’t address rebuilding the brain-body connection to improve skill and coordination. At PAR5 Physical Therapy, we spend each session 1-on-1 with attention to detail to prevent movement compensations, reduce re-injury and optimize your golf game performance!