What Scottie Scheffler and Tiger Woods helped teach him about the body and the golf swing
Long before Scottie Scheffler became one of the biggest names in golf, he was a 14-year-old kid whose body was changing fast.
He was going through a growth spurt and experiencing back pain.
His longtime coach, Randy Smith, brought him to Dr. Troy Van Biezen.
That meeting would begin a relationship that has lasted for years.
As Scottie grew, Van Biezen worked with him on the physical side of the game—helping his developing body handle the movements required by a powerful golf swing.
But Scottie was only one chapter in the story.
For more than 20 years, Van Biezen traveled the PGA Tour working with some of the best golfers in the world.
And over all those years, he began to see something that most amateur golfers rarely consider.
Sometimes the problem isn't the golf swing.
It's the body trying to make it.
Then came Tiger Woods.
By the time Van Biezen began working with Tiger, the situation couldn't have been more different from the teenage Scottie Scheffler he'd first met years earlier.
Tiger had already put his body through decades of professional golf, injuries and multiple back surgeries.
And he had a very personal goal:
He wanted to win another major in front of his children.
Van Biezen had to work with the body Tiger had—not the body he'd had 20 years earlier.
And that meant finding ways to help him move effectively while respecting the limitations created by everything his body had been through.
In 2019, Tiger won the Masters.
Two golfers at completely different points in their lives.
One young and still growing.
The other trying to compete at the highest level after years of physical setbacks.
Yet there's an important lesson connecting the two stories:
Your golf swing can only work with the movement your body gives it.
That's especially important as golfers get older.
When the hips become less mobile...
When the mid-back doesn't rotate as freely...
When the shoulders become tighter...
The body starts finding other ways to complete the swing.
And simply swinging harder isn't necessarily going to bring the lost speed back.
That's the thinking behind Van Biezen's Kinetic Method.
He took what he'd learned from decades of working with golfers and focused it on three areas that play an enormous role in the golf swing:
The hips.
The mid-back.
And the shoulders.
Then he turned those principles into a routine everyday golfers can actually use.
It takes about 13 minutes, three times a week.
No rebuilding your golf swing.
No hours in the gym.
Just a different approach to helping your body make the movement your golf swing has been asking it to make.
If you've noticed that you can't turn quite as freely—or generate distance as easily—as you once could, watch Dr. Troy explain his Kinetic Method here.
Until next time,
Your friends at GoingLow.com
