Thank god for my wife, I love her to death, but this week she is literally a goddess. I have a reserved tee time at Desert Mountain – Cochise (a Jack Nicklaus course) with some buddies from my college years. We’ve kept in touch over the years and we’d planned this weekend for almost a year, I did NOT want to cancel, but my golfer’s back was causing no end of problems. We’d planned a guy’s weekend; playing golf, spinning tales, telling lies and betting (keep that quiet) on who’d win the next hole.

Believe it or not, my wife encouraged the trip… (hmmm.. wonder why she wanted me out of town?) and showed me how to get my back into proper shape. She’s a dancer and only watches golf when she walks through the living room and Tiger Woods is playing.

FACT: Top Ten Golf Related Injuries. Back Pain, Golfer’s Elbow, Shoulder Pain, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, DeQuervain’s Tendinitis, Knee Pain, Trigger Finger, Wrist Impaction Syndrome, ECU Tendon Subluxation, Fracture of Hamate Bone.

Back in my college days I was on the golf team and had PGA dreams. Turns out I had a better head for business and I definitely wasn’t in Tiger Wood’s league, still, I gave most a good run and won my share. And here’s the kicker, not once during my time on the gold team, did I have any injuries (we’ll forget about that one crazy weekend where we played the back nine at 2am… shhhhh), of course being nineteen and twenty years old may have been a factor.

At thirty the strain on my back seem to increase a lot, especially while using a driver. After age forty proper exercise for warming up is an absolute must. Advice here from my wife is also a must if you want to keep playing those weekend getaways with you friends.

“Whether your playing golf or dancing pay attention to your flexibility and stability other wise know as your core strength” is what my wife said to me after her famous “Honey” to get my attention. I sat spellbound and listen as she talked to me wearing those great dancing leotards. “Tighten up your abs” is what she said, “all your power comes from the center of the body”. She then showed me how my back and hips are effected by my abdominals. “You had better make sure you do lots of stretching before playing” she added. What she said make all the sense in the world and after being married to her for all those great years I had better listen to what she says and in this instance she was more than right. With this added core strength by doing these exercises and stretching I find that my golf game has improved greatly. Longer and more accurate drives and not being tired after a full round of golf has been the reward for these efforts.

Now my buddies from college are envious, of my golf game, my “drop dead gorgeous” wife and of course my core strength (though they’d never admit to that one). Golf injuries can be a thing of the past, stay in shape stretch before tee time, and give a listen to what the little lady has to say.

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