Is pro golf hard on the body physically?

[hammersia]

On 6/29/2022 at 6:13 PM, amace04 said:

 

No argument to be made.

 

When's the last time you've seen a golfer snap their humerus by simply swinging a club?  Baseball is incredibly taxing on your body.   Then add in the sprinting, you've got the best of both worlds - athletic injuries from sprinting/cutting/etc, trauma injuries (hit by pitch, extreme stress on bones/joints/etc) and repetitive stress injuries (swinging/pitching, Tommy John, Obliques, etc. are super common)

 

Golf is nowhere near as taxing on the body as baseball.

 

 

Yeah I won't be clicking on that vid

[BlackDiamondPar5]

Talk about hard on the body! 

[Barfolomew]

^^^^ true.... but I was tired yesterday after I played a round in a cart lol 🐈

 

 

 

edit: and yes I played all the sports growing up like 5 years of team Rugby and surgeries to go with it lol 🐫

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 5, 2022 by Barfolomew

[Justsomeguy]

Considering the hurt that mid speed amateur golf has put on my body, I'm gonna say yes.

[betarhoalphadelta]

6 hours ago, jonsnow said:

No, but that 3,000 ft elevation change was uphill both ways. He forgot to note that. 

 

This hike is described as uphill both ways. While there's a LOT of uphill on the way out, on the way back you're re-climbing some of the many descents on the way out, so getting back to your car after making it to the top of the mountain is hell. 

 

https://modernhiker.com/hike/hike-el-cajon-mountain/

 

Nearly killed me. I probably only survived due to the promise of beer at the end and knowing that I'm too damn big for my friends to carry me out. 

[samwm]

6 hours ago, baitdragger said:

I think the mental aspect is hard too.    Lebron having a losing game on a team, he still has buddies to joke with and he takes a night off and rides the bench.   
 

Look at Zalatoris- take a tourney off, you don’t get paid. Finished 2nd again.  It eats you up.   He’s not going to go grab dinner with his O Line and come back the next day to review film and make fun of Coach.

 

I played college lacrosse.  Was in 15 states in 3 months.   Never did school work, barely had time to eat and my mom questioned why she was sending me to college.   The team drank more heavily than my fraternity.  But it was fun being on the team.

 

I can only imagine the grind college golfers put through.

 

- 3x weekly: wake up at 6AM, team workout from 6:30-8. 

 

- 4x weekly: classes from 9-2. 

 

- 4x weekly: practice from 3:30-8.

 

Really not that bad. Although ironing out the hours to study was admittedly challenging at the beginning. But that's what I signed up for, as well as exactly what was disclosed to me coming into the program.

 

 

In return, I got daily access to a Trackman and GC2, comp'd brand new Titleist gear whenever I wanted it, unlimited access to amazing practice facilities + courses, and an excellent and free education. Also played with/against some of the biggest names in golf. And, girls. And, VIP access to the big ticket sports events on campus. And superior job offers upon graduation bc of my major + that industry's tendency to hire golfers.

 

 

Anecdotally, the 4 guys that I played with who ended up making it?  They embraced that process. A smart move, as the two outcomes were fairly binary:

 

1) Work a 9-5

2) Make 925k (a week/month/rough year)

 

Maybe not for everyone, but I always thought complaints about 'the grind' were hollow. At least, to this formerly mediocre college golfer. 

 

 

 

NB: pretty sure the LSU/OSU/UCLA type teams are cruising around on chartered jets these days.

 

 

 

[forrester_fire]

Of course it is.  Every over-repetitive task we perform on our bodies is hard on them.  Typing on a keyboard and using a mouse are hard on the body.

[jonsnow]

3 minutes ago, forrester_fire said:

Of course it is.  Every over-repetitive task we perform on our bodies is hard on them.  Typing on a keyboard and using a mouse are hard on the body.

I just realized why I had tendinitis in my right wrist when I was 15...

[RobertBaron]

Pro golf isn't as physically demanding as things like pro tennis or baseball and obviously football or MMA, but the golf swing certainly puts a lot of stress on the body especially considering how much pro golfers tend to practice. Also typically a pro golf career is much longer than other more physically demanding sports so it's certainly a war of attrition on the body.

[TiScape]

13 hours ago, jonsnow said:

I just realized why I had tendinitis in my right wrist when I was 15...

How’s the vision? 😎 

[jonsnow]

8 hours ago, TiScape said:

How’s the vision? 😎 

 

 

[bscinstnct]

On 7/5/2022 at 5:19 PM, betarhoalphadelta said:

 

This hike is described as uphill both ways. While there's a LOT of uphill on the way out, on the way back you're re-climbing some of the many descents on the way out, so getting back to your car after making it to the top of the mountain is hell. 

 

https://modernhiker.com/hike/hike-el-cajon-mountain/

 

Nearly killed me. I probably only survived due to the promise of beer at the end and knowing that I'm too damn big for my friends to carry me out. 

 

You reminded me this Netflix docu, The Alpinist. This guy Marc Andre Leclerc. Even amongst climbers he a total outlier. Did solo climbs even top climbers like, he did whaaaat?!
 

Here he is climbin frozen waterfalls with just pick things. It’s insane!

 

 

Edited July 8, 2022 by bscinstnct

[forrester_fire]

1 hour ago, bscinstnct said:

 

You reminded me this Netflix docu, The Alpinist. This guy Marc Andre Leclerc. Even amongst climbers he a total outlier. Did solo climbs even top climbers like, he did whaaaat?!
 

Here he is climbin frozen waterfalls with just pick things. It’s insane!

 

 

 

 

He also died on a mountain in his mid 20s.

[bscinstnct]

24 minutes ago, forrester_fire said:

 

He also died on a mountain in his mid 20s.

 

I was trying to spare everyone the spoiler ; )

 

[tatertot]

I carried in 100+ heat Tuesday ... and it was a MOIST heat ... that was hard on the body ...

[jonsnow]

31 minutes ago, forrester_fire said:

 

He also died on a mountain in his mid 20s.

He died on a mountain or falling off a mountain?

[jonsnow]

2 minutes ago, tatertot said:

I carried in 100+ heat Tuesday ... and it was a MOIST heat ... that was hard on the body ...

Humidity is much worse than heat. We've been having upper 90s to low 100s here the last couple of weeks but humidity wasn't so bad; yesterday the high was about 91, I think, but humidity was much higher. I did some work outside when I got home & it was miserable. Still feeling it today.

[bscinstnct]

17 minutes ago, jonsnow said:

He died on a mountain or falling off a mountain?

 

Avalanche!

[jonsnow]

7 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

 

Avalanche!

After my wedding in 1980, I learned a lot about marriage the same way avalanche victims learn a lot about snow...

[ALIF]

On 6/29/2022 at 7:24 AM, golfandfishing said:

Maybe the first two, but those two keep their jobs even if they aren’t the best 200 or so on the planet. The doctors?  Lol. Laziest group of people on the planet for the most part. Less than 1% have demanding jobs. 

If you really feel like this about doctors, then when the emergency department calls me at 1:30 in the morning because you have an open ankle fracture I’ll tell them I don’t feel like coming in to fix it because I’m just feeling lazy and I need several more hours of sleep. However,  I’ll come in later on the next day to perform the below the knee amputation instead. People walk pretty well with a prosthetic leg. Lol. Only downside is you have to put your leg on in the middle of the night if you need to go to the bathroom. 

[aenemated]

46 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

I was trying to spare everyone the spoiler ; )

 

Mt Everest is strewn with the bodies of formerly highly motivated people.

 

Be lazy. 😂

[forrester_fire]

52 minutes ago, jonsnow said:

He died on a mountain or falling off a mountain?

 

Avalanche, if I recall correctly.

[betarhoalphadelta]

3 hours ago, bscinstnct said:

 

You reminded me this Netflix docu, The Alpinist. This guy Marc Andre Leclerc. Even amongst climbers he a total outlier. Did solo climbs even top climbers like, he did whaaaat?!
 

Here he is climbin frozen waterfalls with just pick things. It’s insane!

 

 

Seriously? One hard stroll on a long trail and I remind you of an extreme free-climber? You're easily impressed! 😂

 

50 minutes ago, jonsnow said:

After my wedding in 1980, I learned a lot about marriage the same way avalanche victims learn a lot about snow...

 

I've had an idea for a parenting book.

 

Title: I Knew Everything About Fatherhood

Sub-title: Before I Had Kids

 

[golfandfishing]

1 hour ago, ALIF said:

If you really feel like this about doctors, then when the emergency department calls me at 1:30 in the morning because you have an open ankle fracture I’ll tell them I don’t feel like coming in to fix it because I’m just feeling lazy and I need several more hours of sleep. However,  I’ll come in later on the next day to perform the below the knee amputation instead. People walk pretty well with a prosthetic leg. Lol. Only downside is you have to put your leg on in the middle of the night if you need to go to the bathroom. 

Well we found out pretty quick who the doctors are on this board!  Thank you for not being part of the “most”. For every ER doc and exhausted surgeon there are 100 others wheeling themselves around in their office, 20 minutes late to pretend to listen to heartbeats and look in ears on while their PA’s do most of the work. At lunchtime it’s BJ time from some pharma rep and another 40 minutes added to the backup. But don’t worry they’ll miscode the visit and you can spend the next 5 weeks on the phone with your insurance company fighting over the turn and cough that got recorded as a $2550 hysterectomy. Come back in 6 months whydontchya.

 

Some of y’all are real heroes, I thank you for that. A lot of docs are just overeducated gardeners though. 

[jonsnow]

6 minutes ago, golfandfishing said:

Well we found out pretty quick who the doctors are on this board!  Thank you for not being part of the “most”. For every ER doc and exhausted surgeon there are 100 others wheeling themselves around in their office, 20 minutes late to pretend to listen to heartbeats and look in ears on while their PA’s do most of the work. At lunchtime it’s BJ time from some pharma rep and another 40 minutes added to the backup. But don’t worry they’ll miscode the visit and you can spend the next 5 weeks on the phone with your insurance company fighting over the turn and cough that got recorded as a $2550 hysterectomy. Come back in 6 months whydontchya.

 

Some of y’all are real heroes, I thank you for that. A lot of docs are just overeducated gardeners though. 

How do you feel about lawyers?

[ALIF]

47 minutes ago, golfandfishing said:

Well we found out pretty quick who the doctors are on this board!  Thank you for not being part of the “most”. For every ER doc and exhausted surgeon there are 100 others wheeling themselves around in their office, 20 minutes late to pretend to listen to heartbeats and look in ears on while their PA’s do most of the work. At lunchtime it’s BJ time from some pharma rep and another 40 minutes added to the backup. But don’t worry they’ll miscode the visit and you can spend the next 5 weeks on the phone with your insurance company fighting over the turn and cough that got recorded as a $2550 hysterectomy. Come back in 6 months whydontchya.

 

Some of y’all are real heroes, I thank you for that. A lot of docs are just overeducated gardeners though. 

#jaded#getoffmylawn.

[woodriff]

It would be interesting to equate distance vrs injuries of a particular age group. 
 

Not just the young long hitters today. I follow Hal Sutton on twitter and had both hips replaced. He had a pretty strong core. Tom Watson always swung in a barrel to protect his back. 
 

If I have another tee time in post life I might not carry a bag for 18 holes everyday. We were young. We could handle the reverse C position. It was cool to carry. 
I would’ve got a rickety old pull cart. 

[phizzy30]

Yes it's hard physically for tour pros.  I have a client/buddy of mine that I train who's on the Mackenzie Tour.  These guys workout 3-5 days a week, plus all the reps they put in on the range/practice area, the multiple rounds they play on a weekly basis and travel.  We are also working on speed training as well.  I own a fitness/wellness business and besides the work outs, he comes in regularly to get treatment by my in house PT and massage therapist.  We're hoping that he plays well enough when Q-school happens so he can gain some sort of status to play on the Korn Ferry Tour next season. 

Edited July 9, 2022 by phizzy30

[Nels55]

21 minutes ago, phizzy30 said:

Yes it's hard physically for tour pros.  I have a client/buddy of mine that I train who's on the Mackenzie Tour.  These guys workout 3-5 days a week, plus all the reps they put in on the range/practice area, the multiple rounds they play on a weekly basis and travel.  We are also working on speed training as well.  I own a fitness/wellness business and besides the work outs, he comes in regularly to get treatment by my in house PT and massage therapist.  We're hoping that he plays well enough when Q-school happens so he can gain some sort of status to play on the Korn Ferry Tour next season. 

Sigh, that is a great life!  Workout and play golf, I would have loved to have been able to do that!  Does this guy have a regular job also?  LOL when I was in my prime such as it was I worked out, ran, played golf, basketball and softball in addition to commuting and holding down a job.  Just like lots of folks here do or have done.  LOL obviously what us ams do is just a bit different then trying to make money at a sport though.  Lots of stress trying to make a living at it...  Anyway I wish your friend the best and I hope that he makes it to the show!

[phizzy30]

Just now, Nels55 said:

Sigh, that is a great life!  Workout and play golf, I would have loved to have been able to do that!  Does this guy have a regular job also?  LOL when I was in my prime such as it was I worked out, ran, played golf, basketball and softball in addition to commuting and holding down a job.  Just like lots of folks here do or have done.  LOL obviously what us ams do is just a bit different then trying to make money at a sport though.  Lots of stress trying to make a living at it...  Anyway I wish your friend the best and I hope that he makes it to the show!

He has a very charmed life.  Let's just say his father bought one of the properties/buildings here in downtown LA.  He passed down the property to his two kids and they are now collecting rent on it so technically he's never had to work a day in his life.  He was a Navy Seal though.