The effects of vertically oriented resistance training on golf drive performance in collegiate golfers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of vertically oriented resistance training on golf driving performance. Ten Division-I collegiate golfers completed two resistance training sessions per week for 10 weeks during the fall tournament season. Pre-and post-training assessments of strength-power and golf performance were compared. To assess strength-power, jump height, peak force, and peak power were measured from static and countermovement vertical jumps; peak force and rate of force development from 0 to 250 ms were measured from an isometric mid-thigh pull. Golf performance was assessed in terms of ball launch speed, spin rate, carry yardage, and total yardage, averaged from five shots using a driver. Following training, all measures of strength-power improved, with countermovement jump peak power improving significantly (p < 0.00625). The golf performance assessment indicated significant increases (p < 0.0125) in ball speed, carry yardage, and total yardage. These results suggest that vertically oriented resistance training can improve golf driving performance.

Effect of concurrent training on trainability performance factors in youth elite golf players

“…Improvements obtained in CMJ (5.08% for AG and 9.38% for BG) are agree with previous studies (Alvarez et al, 2012;Driggers & Sato, 2018;Kenny et al, 2017), confirming , T2 and T3). AG, after golf group; BG, before golf group; au, arbitrary units; (A) TL-CT, perceived concurrent physical conditioning training load; (B) TL-G, perceived specific golf training load; (C) CMJ, countermovement jump; (D) GMS, golf movement screen; (E) Sball, ball speed; (F) Wmax, maximal power.…”

“…Our results revealed that golfers transfer the gains to the driver performance with percentage improvement ranging from 1.03% to 1.82% for AG and BG respectively. Previous studies have reported the positive influence of strength training on driving performance in highly-trained players (Alvarez et al, 2012;Driggers & Sato, 2018;Fletcher & Hartwell, 2004). This is confirmed by the results of our study, which proves that the CT program followed increase driving performance, both Sball and rotational power.…”

“…Golf can be one of those sports traditionally favor early specialization (Lloyd et al, 2015b) for this reason golfers should be engaged with an integrative strength and conditioning programs focused on diversifying motor skill development and enhancing muscle strength to maximize performance and reduce injury risk (Faigenbaum et al, 2014). In this regard, our data show that concurrent training programs combining physical conditioning program and golf specific training may have an important impact on performance factors such as drive ball speed (Torres-Ronda, Delextrat & Gonzalez-Badillo, 2014) or CMJ (Driggers & Sato, 2018;Kenny et al, 2017). In addition, session sequence should be considered since our results suggest that performing strength training before golf-specific work allows golfers get a better or similar performance with a lower perceived TL (9% lower BG than AG) which supports the results of 18% obtained by Fernandez-Fernandez et al (2018).…”

Peer Review #2 of "Effect of concurrent training on trainability performance factors in youth elite golf players (v0.2)"

“…This would indicate that golfers in the BG were carrying out the CT sessions in a less sense of fatigue, resulting in greater increases on performance factors possibly due to a less stress (Blume et al, 2018). Improvements obtained in CMJ (5.08% for AG and 9.38% for BG) are agree with previous studies (Alvarez et al, 2012;Driggers & Sato, 2018;Kenny et al, 2017), confirming that a twice-weekly strength training program, using the protocol outlined, was associated with enhancements in driving performance (Wells et al, 2019), lower limb explosive strength and rotational power. Our results revealed that golfers transfer the gains to the driver performance with percentage improvement ranging from 1.03% to 1.82% for AG and BG respectively.…”

“…Golf can be one of those sports traditionally favor early specialization (Lloyd et al, 2015b) for this reason golfers should be engaged with an integrative strength and conditioning programs focused on diversifying motor skill development and enhancing muscle strength to maximize performance and reduce injury risk (Faigenbaum et al, 2014). In this regard, our data show that concurrent training programs combining physical conditioning program and golf specific training may have an important impact on performance factors such as drive ball speed (Torres-Ronda et al, 2014) or CMJ (Driggers & Sato, 2018;Kenny et al, 2017). In addition, session sequence should be considered since our results suggest that performing strength training before golf-specific work allows golfers get a better or similar performance with a lower perceived TL (9% lower BG than AG) which supports the results of 18% obtained by Fernandez-Fernandez et al (2019).…”