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How Do You Guarantee Longevity for ANY Golfer?

Will Barlock

PT, DPT, CSCS

Director of Physical Therapy

Morrisville, NC

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This is for You if…

You teach golf instruction

You aim to maximize your golfer’s speed potential

You want your golfers to stay healthy on the course

You want to GUARANTEE longevity

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Objectives for Today:

Recognize physical limitations in your golfers

Learn TOP 3 factors for longevity

Learn how fast a golfer should move (and be safe)

Have a clear path to assess any golfer.. from anywhere

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Who am I?

Doctor of Physical Therapy
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Director of Physical Therapy
Helped build the largest research database in the world
Helped 10,000+ golfers improve physically
Helped 60+ juniors reach college golf
Work with most WLD competitors including reigning world champions
Work with Tour Professionals on all Tours

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Common Swing Inefficiencies

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Common Swing Inefficiencies

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WHO IS A GOLFER?

MENTAL

PHYSICAL

COACH

Simple enough - this is how we define the factors that create a golfer. There is a CLEAR multi-faceted approach towards accomplishing this game.

Coach - technique, equipment, in competition, understanding in-game changes as needed

Mental - compete with yourself - you are either your best friend or worst enemy, big mental hurdle

Physical - need to move correctly for the sport or otherwise, forget correct technique, consistent play and achieving maximal results

With the 10,000s golfers we have helped so far, this is a constant → the best players and those achieving longevity in the game have all 3 on a routine basis.. Who does both instruction and fittings? You’re all already 2/3rds there with your students!

With the amount of research we do, there are 3 common factors with our highest performing golfers.

They have part of all 3 of these along with frequent communication amongst the 3
They move well and are strong

Our research has proven a couple really interesting insights for our golfers

More flexible adults are faster
Stronger golfers are faster
More flexible and stronger golfers recovery better than those that are not → 6x faster!!! 2 weeks vs 12 weeks on average

Talk about a way to guarantee being able to play golf for a long time!
If you could tell your golfers that you can guarantee they can play better and longer because you have the secret to be able to, would you? Sounds pretty reasonable to me!

The beauty of it, YOU have the opportunity to achieve ALL of this sitting right in front of you

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Did you know everyone has a SAFE SWING SPEED ?

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Adult

Golfer

Junior Golfer

Club Head Speed through the Decades

A couple of the most commonly seen golfers we work with - JRs and retirees

This is just part of the full picture. I want you to have ALL of this info. Find me afterwards to have this sent to you.

90th percentile means you are swinging speed faster than 90% of your age bracket BUT does that mean it’s a sustainable number?

Why do so many golfers hurt? Especially with the history of issues of issues on the course, such as with Tiger, Will Zalatoris, Mark Calcavecchia (champions tour). And this is just the low back! Not to include knees, hips, shoulders, elbows and wrist

An older research paper interviewed over 500 pros - either professional or teaching; over 70% had dealt with injuries during their career with 30% also reporting in just the last year.

MOST COMMON INJURY→ in general from overuse , not traumatic (US Open 2008, Tiger, Torrey Pines) .

SO…. HOW DO YOU ASSESS IF SOMEONE IS READY TO PLAY FOR THE LONG TERM? Starts with knowing how well they actually move.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/45/2/e1.4

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What is SAFE SWING SPEED?

3 Main Factors

Mobility

Strength

Power

Safe Swing Speed → the specific speed a golfer can maximize for the long term. Safe Swing Speed means LONGEVITY

Mobility - this is where 90% of golfers can’t pass. We will spending some time on this today to test yourselves out!

Strength - ability to be in control against a resistance

Power - we assess 2 different areas of power - including upper body and lower body power output

-what is power? Ability to move against a resistance with speed being the main focus

Clubhead speed - how does everything line up

Archetypes →

What do you think happens we we move fast on a immobile body?
What do you think happens when we swing faster than our power output can handle?
What happens we swing faster on a body that’s immobile and not powerful?

With the 1000s of golfers we’ve helped, we have very concrete data on CHS thru all age ranges. We use this data to create their safe predictive swing speed.
Especially with your golfers, you talk about someone who moves fast but can’t move correctly, that should be an immediate red flag
We can provide this input for all of your golfers, with a few simple tests. There’s a sign up list in the back

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LET’S TEST IT OUT

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Neck Rotation

Pass:

Chin to collarbone
No shrug
Mouth closed
No pain!

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Trunk

Rotation

Pass:

Rotation over 50 degrees
AKA buttons of your shirt face your outside hip
No pain!

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Shoulder Rotation

Pass:

Forearm angle > spine angle
In golf posture
No pain!

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Hip Rotation

Pass:

Hip to 45 degrees
No lifting your butt off the chair
No pain!

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Safe Swing Speed Equation

MOBILITY

Push POWER

Jump POWER

Club Head Speed

(Age)

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Example - Chris Haarlow

Mobility - Tight hips, can’t touch toes!

Power - below average (rel. to age)

MAX → 96-99 mph projection

Speed - 103-105mph

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How do we provide longevity for golfers?

Research-proven programs

Customized workouts

Frequent retesting

Coordination with instructor

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You can GUARANTEE longevity too

will@par4success.com

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