Senior Golf Workout

At age 53, perhaps Greg Norman can be viewed as the poster boy for senior golfers everywhere. At the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, Greg Norman competed stroke-for-stroke with golfers twenty years his junior, even holding a 54-hole lead. The conditions were grueling with winds blowing up to thirty-five MPH. Norman relied on his golf fitness to keep him in contention until the very end.

The Shark has always been conscious of his health. “I'm appalled by people who don't look after their bodies,” says the Shark. He was an advocate of fitness in golf long before it was fashionable. “When I was a kid, we were told that exercising was bad for your golf swing,” he says. “I was the one who first changed all that.” Nowadays, many pros spend as much time, if not more, performing fitness training activities as they do on the range.

At the Open Championship, Greg Norman set an example for all golfers, in particular those over 50. Comprehensive fitness is as important to the game of golf as swing mechanics and equipment. When golfers stay in shape, they can enjoy the game to its fullest their whole lives.