Susan Hill Presents at the Titleist World Golf Fitness Summit
The world’s top strength and conditioning experts for golf gathered from October 16-19, 2008 in Anaheim, Calif. at the 3rd Annual World Golf Fitness Summit and Susan Hill was there presenting. Hosted by Titleist Performance Institute cofounders Dave Phillips and Greg Rose, the three-day seminar focuses on the growing discipline of golf specific fitness. The Summit attracts several hundred attendees from a wide variety of disciplines including golf professionals and instructors, doctors, chiropractors and physical and personal trainers among others within and outside the golf industry who have an interest in taking their instruction skills and menu services to the next level.
An assembled panel of world-renowned experts and TPI Advisory Board members delivered presentations on topics such as understanding golf swing biomechanics, testing and treatment for injuries and physical limitations that affect performance, nutritional considerations during golf, team building for player development, and exercise progressions for developing posture, stability, mobility and power. Susan Hill, widely recognized in the industry for her ability to analyze swings for physical faults and corrective fixes, spoke on Saturday on this topic.
Hill's talk was titled “Golf Fitness on the Range.” It is the kind of highly practical talk often offered by Hill. When she stepped before the crowd in Anaheim, Hill educated the attendees as to the best way to evaluate golfers and help them improve right on the range. “A lot of trainers work with players in the gym, but I do a lot of my work with golfers on the range,” Hill says. “It helps me, and my players, understand things better because we are working where they are actually making swings.”
In Hill’s view, most if not all physical swing faults can be fixed by first evaluating what she calls the Fundamental Five: shoulder turn, hip rotation, width and extension in the back swing, head rotation and overall body motion. The bad news, Hill adds, is that any number of faults can come from just one of these flaws. But once those issues are identified, it is possible to fix them with corrective exercises and stretches that can be performed right on the range. Hill took time in her Anaheim report to describe some of those faults as well as many of the things players can do to improve and correct them.
For a complete roster and biographies of presenters and seminar schedule please visit Titleist World Golf Summit.
