My Problem with Golf Digest and Golf Magazine

When are these magazines going to recognize that fitness is an important part of golf? 

First, Golf Magazine rarely has anything on fitness.  I have actually never seen anything on fitness in it but I did a search on their site and a great article from Brian Mogg came up from January 14th.  I'm not sure if it ever made the magazine, but it's on the site. 

Why not more of these type of articles?

Golf Digest does have a segment called "Fitness" in "The Digest" section but it is not in every issue and sometimes I wonder how some of the articles made it to the section.  It seems like a dumping ground for things that might have to do with "health."

The May issue does not have a "Fitness" section in it (even though Tiger is on the cover, go figure) so we need to go back to the the April issue. 

The main article on the fitness page is called "Grooving a swing."  It's about a golfer in Q school who had an iPod in for the whole final stage of the tourney.  Not a bad piece, but is this fitness? 

There is also a piece with a picture of Many Ramirez about mouth guards that relax the jaw muscles.  Again, interesting but is it fitness and why not show Scott McCarron or Steve Elkington who are allegedly wearing them?

The two true fitness pieces are 1) a box with cartoons showing three exercises and 2) some text on the bottom telling us about Camilo's secret move and to go to the website for a demo. 

Thanks guys, big help. 

How about dedicating the whole page to those three exercises and getting some pictures up with some real instruction so the average golfer out there who has no idea what they are doing won't hurt themselves?

It's no wonder golfers are using P90X.

Comments

[Double Eagle]

Ant, I'm a little surprised as well that they don't give a little more in the way of fitness, but it hadn't really occurred to me until you mentioned it. I suppose I've just come to realize that I read about swings and people in the mags and get my fitness information from places like this.

Everywhere you turn these days, especially on TV, we're hearing about the importance of fitness in golf. There are entire shows dedicated to it. We regularly hear (and read) about Tiger's impressive regimen. We hear about guys like Steward Cink and Tom Leyman that added distance with new fitness routines over the last several years. We hear about how hard Camillo Villegas works in the gym. The list goes on.

Yet, the top magazines barely give it a cursory mention. I understand that they might not want to dominate the magazines with fitness, but a monthly focused instructional article would be of great benefit to people that are stuck trying to improve by just trying out the next swing tip that comes along, but who can't even make a full turn (for example) because of a physical limitation.