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Better Golf, Renegade Style

Feb 16, 2009 Contributors, Training Tips

By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training

When I wrote my first book on Golf, “R-Factor for Golf“, a number of years ago, much of my typical audience was surprised with my choice of topic. In writing the book, it was my intention to address the needs of the sport as well as dispel the myths associated with an endless array of training gadgets and questionable ideas.

Like many well intended volleys, it came on the heels of the constant barrage of hype that surrounds the game. Even as some in the exercise industry have made a “meal” out of golf preparation by slapping the prefix “golf” onto a myriad of exercise classes and resistance approaches in an effort to dupe the public, the current economic downturn has done an efficient job of weeding many of those snake-oil salesmen out of the exercise game. However, getting factual information out to the golf-playing public is still no easy matter.

The essential peculiarity of golf, or “training for golf,” is that regardless of how you train off the course, if you do not carefully monitor your swing, your efforts will be largely wasted. To suggest to the untrained reader anything to the contrary is to display a practical lack of playing knowledge of the game and of the latest technological advancements. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise. It simply means that you should exercise correctly.

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