The flexible golf swing : a cutting-edge guide to improving flexibility and mastering golf's true fundamentals / Roger Fredericks ; foreword by Arnold Palmer.

Includes index.

1. My story -- 2. Posture and balance: we are all created equal -- 3. The fundamentals of the golf swing -- 4. What the muscles do in the golf swing -- 5. You've got to be hip -- 6. Flexibility tests and what they mean -- 7. Flexible solutions to inflexible swing faults -- 8. Swing fault solutions -- 9. Anatomy of common swing theories (and other myths) -- 10. The flexibility and strength programs -- 11. Flexibility stretches -- 12. The mind-body connection -- 13. What to expect.

"An easy-to-follow guide to unlocking the fundamentals of golf flexibility and the golf swing. For more than 400 years, the secret of the golf swing has been one of the most fascinating and frustrating mysteries known to mankind. Despite remarkable advances in golf club technology, golf instruction, and golf course conditioning, the average golfer's handicap hasn't changed in the past 30 years. Not coincidentally, the nation as a whole is becoming less healthy due to the sedentary lifestyle that is harming our bodies at an alarming rate. We are then taking our dysfunctional bodies to the golf course. Roger Fredericks, a leading golf instructor and golf fitness pioneer who has worked with the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Arnold Palmer, takes readers on a step-by-step journey to explain precisely why golfers have a hard time improving and more importantly, what to do about it. In The Flexible Golf Swing, he lays out his commonsense approach and explains in detail the true fundamentals of the golf swing, and precisely how the mechanics are merely symptoms of how a body functions"--Provided by publisher.