Muscle activity during the golf swing

McHardy, A
Pollard, H

Macquarie Injury Management Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Correspondence to: MrMcHardy Macquarie Injury Management Group, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, NSW, Australia; [email protected]

Accepted 06 June 2005

Competing interests: none declared

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British Journal of Sports Medicine 39(11):p 799-804, November 2005.

In the right hands, the golf swing is a motion that inspires looks of awe from the public. It is a complex movement of the whole body to generate power to a golf ball to propel the ball great distances with accuracy. This movement relies on the coordinated sequence of muscle activation to produce a fluid and reproducible movement. This paper reviews the literature on golf swing related muscle activity. The phases of this activity are discussed with a view to assisting the practitioner in understanding the swing. Such understanding may help in the management of the injured golfer.