Golf Fitness Here are some great stretches to warm your body up to play golf. Make sure during all these stretches you continue to breathe as this will aid your stretch a lot. Lat Stretch – Stand roughly 1.5M back from a wall or chair with your feet just over shoulder width apart, then reach up with your arms really engaging your scapular and keeping your shoulders back. Then bend from your pelvis and reach towards the wall/chair and hold. Glute Stretch – Sitting down lift one leg up and across your opposite knee. Slowly lean forward and you should feel a good stretch in your glutes and up the bottom side of you crossed leg. Repeat for other side. Rotator Cuff Stretch – Using a towel or club behind you head reach over with one arm and under with the other. Keeping your shoulders back (it is hard not to in this position) pull in opposing directions. Repeat the other way around. Back Rotation Stretch – With a club behind your back and feet shoulder width apart dynamically rotate in a controlled manner in each direction. Try to keep you knees from bending and doing all the rotation for you. If this feels easy, try also do it with the club held above your head and try it whilst down on one knee in a lunged position. Wrist Extensor Stretch – Turning your forearm under so your palm points to the sky, gently pull back on your fingers and palm with the other hand. Repeat on the other side. Wrist Flexor Stretch – Having your forearm out in front of you so your knuckles point towards the sky, gently push down on your fingers and hand with the other hand. Repeat on the other side. Hat-trick for Koepka What a few years the big-hitting American is having. Since making his debut in the 2016 Ryder Cup, where he won three out of a possible four points, Brooks has secured three Major championships, including back-to-back U.S. Opens and last week’s PGA Championship. Koepka took a two-shot lead into Sunday’s final round and couldn’t have dreamt for a better start; booming a 325-yard drive down the fairway before hitting his approach to six-foot for an opening birdie. A little wobble in the middle of his front nine was quickly addressed with birdies on seven, eight and nine, at which point a certain Tiger Woods was making a charge. But Koepka showed his quality by shooting a flawless two-under-par back nine, holding off challenges from Woods, Scott and Thomas to claim his third Major title in his last six Major starts. There’s always a real buzz surrounding golf's four biggest events, especially in a Ryder Cup year as we eagerly watch on to see who’ll make the respective teams come September, but Tiger’s challenge in last month’s Open Championship and last week’s PGA Championship has got golf back on the front pages once again. Maybe, just maybe, we're beginning to see Tiger getting back to his incredible best, which can only be a positive for the sport.
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