The Flexible Golf Swing: A Cutting-Edge Guide to Improving Flexibility and Mastering Golf's True Fundamentals [Paperback]

For more than 400 years, the secret of the golf swing has been one of the most fascinating and frustrating mysteries known to mankind. Despite remarkable advances in golf club technology, golf instruction, and golf course conditioning, the average golfer's handicap hasn't changed in the past 30 years. Not coincidentally, the nation as a whole is becoming less healthy due to the sedentary lifestyle that is harming our bodies at an alarming rate. We are then taking our dysfunctional bodies to the golf course.

Roger Fredericks, a leading golf instructor and golf fitness pioneer who has worked with the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Arnold Palmer, takes readers on a step-by-step journey to explain precisely why golfers have a hard time improving and more importantly, what to do about it. In The Flexible Golf Swing, he lays out his commonsense approach and explains in detail the true fundamentals of the golf swing, and precisely how the mechanics are merely symptoms of how a body functions.“I am glad to see that Roger is bringing the principles of anatomical function into the golf world.” —Jack NicklausROGER FREDERICKS has been one of the most influential figures in the golf fitness movement over the past 20 years and is one of the few golf professionals with expertise in both golf instruction and physiology. He has worked on the golf swings and bodies of more than 20,000 golfers, including more than 60 tour professionals and seven Hall of Famers. The creator of the smash hit infomercial Roger Fredericks Reveals Secrets to Golf Swing Flexibility, he travels around the country conducting seminars. He resides in San Diego.CHAPTER 1

MY STORY

YOU MUST HAVE ONE HECK OF A SORE LEFT ANKLE WHEN YOU HIT A LOT OF GOLF BALLS. Those words were uttered to me in 1985 by a physical therapist named Ric McDonald, who at the time was the head l#,