Fit Golfer
The Scratch City Golf team has spent years studying older golfers and learned that there are two player types - Fit and Unfit.
- Fit golfers possess the fitness and nutritional knowledge and formed the habits to consistently play great golf after 50.
- Unfit golfers lack the fitness and nutritional knowledge and practice poor habits that prevent them from playing great golf after 50.
According to research up to 70% of golfers age 50 and over are unfit. In other words - most 50+ golfers are not in the mental and physical shape needed to play their best.
There are approximately 25 million recreational golfers in the United States. 70% of 25 million is 17.5 million. That means nearly 18 million golfers can’t play their best because they lack the mental and physical fitness to do so.
More importantly - these statistics also suggest that either you or a 50+ golfer you know is unfit. The lack of fitness is likely holding you and your partners back from playing your best.
Scratch City Golf aims to change that by transforming unfit golfers into fit golfers.
Become a Fit Golfer
If you’re an unfit golfer but desire to become a fit golfer - there are a couple of steps you need to take.
Step 1 - Commit to optimizing your mental and physical fitness.
Committing is the first and most important step in the journey to becoming a fit golfer. Once you commit you begin to subconsciously create the initial thoughts and make the decisions that will move you towards reaching your goal.
Step 2 - Adopt the the key attributes of a Fit Golfer
You do that by optimizing your mental and physical fitness through six key attributes - focus, flexibility, strength, speed, energy and endurance.
1. Focus - The ability to remain fully engaged in the moment. Regulating emotions to reduce the chances of engaging in extreme negative or positive thoughts and actions. Staying calm and optimistic to manage adversity with skill and strategy rather than anger and hope.
2. Flexibility - The full range of motion the body is able to complete without pain. A flexible torso is the primary element of an effective swing. The greater range of motion in the torso the more power that can be generated in the swing.
3. Strength - A powerful core (abdomen) plays an important role in generating high swing speeds. Additional muscle groups involved in effective golf swing include quads and calves.
4. Speed - Torso rotation is a critical factor in creating speed in the downswing which in turn generates power. The faster you rotate your torso on the downswing the more power you generate on the upswing.
5. Energy - is physical vitality - it’s the force expended towards the execution of key golf activities such as navigating the course, formulating strategy and shot execution.
6. Endurance - the management of energy so that the risk of exhaustion is minimized - because the player has learned to effectively distribute their energy throughout the round.
Our work is aimed at enabling golfers of all levels to develop these attributes to develop great fitness to play great golf.