Golf Stretches: What I Should Have Been Doing for Twenty Years

Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500

I am not a stretching person. I want to say that first, so you understand the nature of what I’m describing. For the first thirty years of my adult life, a warm-up was walking from the parking lot to the first tee while draining the last of the coffee. That was it. That was the whole program.

I played football in ninth grade. I hunted, fished, carried a golf bag, and walked several thousand miles of rough country without ever once sitting down to touch my toes before or after any of it. My body obliged. It was not grateful, I now understand. It was merely young.

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Golf Stretches: What I Should Have Been Doing for Twenty Years