Maui golf scores can improve with fitness

Developing your swing is the usual advice you hear when you ask a Maui golf pro how to get a better game.

But more golfers (and this would be especially true among people playing Maui golf) are talking about achieving big improvements by doing fitness training. Combine an improved swing with more strength and fitness, and you get some great results.

The secret of good Maui golf

Just plain, old-fashioned physical fitness is one of the game's best kept secrets.

Golf fitness means well developed feet, knees, hamstrings, hips, arms, upper body and neck. Because these are the areas in your body that affect your score.

It's exercise that prepares these parts of your body for your game. When you are unfit you will not easily absorb the stresses and pressures of good golf.

Also, you will have to work on all round flexibility and strength. Remember how best golfers hit the ball. You've seen how they effortlessly combine power and suppleness into impressive, flowing swings. They have exercised to become strong and flexible, and you need to imitate them.

Of the two, strength is extra important as this is what you must have to develop two other requirements: stability and core rigidity.

How do you actually get golf fit?

If this sounds like a lot, there is good news. The exercises you'll need to do to develop all this can be done in your basement with hand weights and exercise tubing. If a golfer is at the gym exercising the muscles that aren't required on the course he might as well stop and lie on a beach. Whatever you do, build the essential parts of your body I've mentioned.

When you do the right exercises you not only look like a pro, you score like one. And on Maui golf courses that counts!