Note: If you do not live in or near Denver, CO, feel free to skip over this post.
This is a little different from our normal content, but we have a unique opportunity for Denver-area golfers that we wanted to extend to our readers.
Our own Steve Atherton, GolfTEC VP of Research and Development, is working with The Rose Center for Health & Sport Science on a 30-day golf research study. It’s a cool opportunity to be involved in a golf study, get some golf instruction and fitness guidance, and even get a free GolfTEC Swing Evaluation at the end.
Study details and information
The Rose Center for Health & Sport Science in conjunction with GolfTEC is performing a 30-day research study on the effects of various programs on increasing club head speed and distance.
To be eligible, you need to be:
- Male
- Age 35-65
- No orthopedic, muscular or health issues
- Maximum of 90 minutes per week spent in formal exercise per week (average for the last 3 months)
You will need to be able to commit to pre-study golf testing (approximately 60 minutes), and then will be randomly assigned to groups which include weekly golf lessons with a PGA Master Professional in Instruction or one of three golf-fitness programs. You will need to be able to travel to either the lessons or the fitness interventions at various locations. We endeavor to make locations convenient, yet based upon where you live, you may or may not be close to the intervention location. Testing will occur at GolfTEC in Centennial, and fitness interventions will occur at either 24 Hour fitness locations or Rose Hospital.
The golf lessons will be once per week for 60 minutes, and the fitness interventions will be two, 30-minute sessions per week at regularly scheduled times. All programs will take 4 weeks of training. At the end of the intervention period, you will come back to GolfTEC Headquarters in Centennial for post-study testing. On completing that session, you will receive a certificate good for a free one-hour Swing Evaluation with GolfTEC. Please note, if you do not finish the study or complete all the sessions, you will not receive the free Swing Evaluation.
If you are interested and fit the study requirements, please send your name, contact information (preferred email and phone) and general location of your home and/or work using zip code to:
Neil.wolkodoff@healthonecares.com
If you get to participate, we hope you enjoy it. And even if you aren’t able to, spread the word (the share button below is an easy way to do so) to any golfers you know in the Denver area.
Women should have been included in this study. I golf in a tournament league and would benefit from participating in this study, hopefully to increase driving length well over 200 yards.
Ijanis,
I appreciate your interest in the study. Due to the nature of the fitness programs that are going to be used, and the need to keep the validity of the data that we are trying to gather consistent, we decided to limit it to men of a certain age and handicap. However, we will be doing more research projects in the future as well and we are open to doing them with women, seniors, juniors, etc.
Also, please bear in mind that if you need specific help with your game we do have 5 Improvement Centers in the Denver area with very qualified Coaches who could build you a structured program designed around improving your distance as well!
Steve