In this video, we’re going to show you how to play good golf with a bad back. By following our simple tips, you’ll be able to play golf safely and effectively no matter how your back is looking!
If you’re struggling to play good golf with a bad back, then this video is for you! We’ll show you a simple, easy golf swing that’ll help you play without pain. By following our tips, you’ll be able to enjoy your game again and improve your score!
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Hey Todd, Jeff from Venice FL. Maybe taking a couple days off would be a better idea. Just a thought. Thanks for your great tips. I happen to be left handed and cannot hit a draw everything is a fade or dead straight. Any tips?
Westchester ny with a bad back
Hi Todd, Love your passion for the game and for teaching. Just bought your book, "The Bad Lie" and enjoying it. I live in Wisconsin and am 73 years young. I was totally grasping the concepts you were laying out in your book until I got to the chapters on the Takeaway and Halfway back. In the chapter on the Takeaway you state, "First, I want you to feel your hands arc in as the clubhead stays outside (got it!). So, if you set an alignment rod or golf club on the ground between your toes and the ball, your goal is to work your hands inward between the alignment rod and your body, while your clubhead moves along the line of the alignment rod. Then in the chapter on Halfway Back you state, "As you swing toward that halfway back position, think about extending the movement you began in the takeaway. By the time your lead arm is parallel with the ground, your hands should be right over the alignment rod. You’ll notice that when you do this, you create a more vertical backswing. Would you be able to give me some clarification on "work your hands inward between the alignment rod and your body" and at parallel "your hands should be right over the alignment rod." It sounds like I should start my hands in and then start them out to get them right over the alignment rod. Thanks for clearing this matter up for me, Bob
Watching from thunderstorm riddled New Jersey.
I can relate.
2 back surgeries.
From Michigan..
Try golf Central Michigan, Gaylord Michigan too. Wonderful courses. Should be on your bucket list
Thanks Todd, great tips for us experienced golfers with back issues!
Todd just curious, are you still playing a stiff shaft in your iron? I’ve had a bad back most of my life, had surgery in 2000 for ruptured disc (L1) and have arthritis and scar tissue with a couple of bulging disc. I’m 68 picked up golf 12 years ago and truly enjoying the game but need a swing I can use, VLS is interesting being I can’t rotate like the pros do but I do still have plenty of flexibility and range of motion. I’m here in NC.
Great tip Todd on how to accommodate a back issue in order to play golf. As one of your experienced viewers, I have had hip issues for years. To circumvent this situation, I go for a chiropractic maintenance treatment every two weeks or as needed. Plus, I have stretching exercises I use via an exercise ball and the floor each day and definitely before a round of golf. As you, I'm not going to let a few aches and pains keep me from playing a round of golf when I want to. Good Job Todd!!
Why would I need to align the toe of my clubs with the ball to hit in the center of my club
Used a full can of freeze spray on my back to get me around the course a few years ago.
A day I won't forget.
Agony every swing🤪
Strangely I didn't play too badly🤔
Hi Todd, watching from Reignier, France… I trust your back is doing better… I get these types of slips every once I a while when I move or lift things in a different way…. Older age is creeping in… I love to see some of your putting stroke strategies… thanks, Drew Donovan
Thanks for the tip and drill. Struggling getting off the tee also. Pat , Doylestown, pa 65 yr old
Hitting my fairway shots fat 75% of the time
Stuart, Florida
Paul vaccaro Stamford ct
I have bad back all so but I played golf for the last two days. Her in Athens Ala home of Lee Hodges
Thanks Todd. I’m a Baptist missionary who has been on the field for 32 years. I’ve been working in Cuba for the past 26. I’m hoping to get out and golf. I have a terrible back, so this is really helpful. Hopefully, I’ll be able to apply what you’re teaching so I can play without so much pain.
Good tips Todd. greetings from Brisbane in Australia….
The VLS system is working for me. I am 63 with degenerate disc disease and mildish scoliosis from 35 years of a desk job. I also have rotator cuff problems from 40 some years of weightlifting. I decided to re-take up golf after taking off 39 years from the sport. I searched for videos for golf swings for bad backs after wrenching my back using my stiff shafted blades from 1981 and swinging like I was 24, , I tried many swings for bad backs that I found on YouTube none of them really worked until I came across your videos. I bought the book and I have studied and practiced your techniques and so far so good. I do get roped in occasionally to other web sites that have suggestions for greater power or whatever and I have to stop that because it has hurt my back. I have to learn to accept that I am old and accept a swing speed that is sub 100mph, and hey, I can use the short tees. Thank you for your book and videos.
From Chapel Hill, NC. Usually when someone says a single change will add 20 yards to my drive, it's malarkey. This tip was different. Today, I stepped up to my first tee shot and hit it 20 yards further than I have in years. Kept it up the whole round. THANKS, Todd!!!
Thanks, will be helpful for my gf who had back surgery and doesn’t have much turning range in her back. Enjoying golf in MN 😋
Great video on how to swing with low stress on the back. My back feels better already 😀 Maybe some warm up exercises before golf would be a good video as well.
Nice tip for bad backs, but I go beyond just sore muscles, I have had 10 low back surgerys and I am fused from L2 down. I have lost so much distance I used to get 260 yards from my driver to now I am lucky to get 160 yards
Do you have any help with that
Phillip Therkelsen Fort Wayne Indiana
What does your right hand do in the backswing?
Glad I found this today. I tweaked my lower back at the end of my last round (9 days ago now). I’ve lost practice time trying to rehab. Got my first State event here in Virginia at the end of the month. Going to get some swings in this afternoon and try to work everything out. I’m also just over a year out from being classified as an “experienced” golfer in the State of Virginia. 😜 The real work starts now to get ready to return to competitive amateur golf.