Golf Darren is part of ‘Team Casey’ and has been working with Paul since January 2005 at European Tour events all over the world. ‘It’s great to work with a golfer of Paul’s ability’ said Darren, ‘golfer’s have very specific needs in terms of explosive power development and I love using all my innovative ideas on Paul, which get some strange looks on Tour. We box, skip and do all sorts of plyometric exercises’. Follow Paul on www.paul-casey.com Darren also works with various golf unions around the country on youth player development as well as presenting extensively on golf specific fitness. Darren is the fitness expert for Golf World and Todays Golfer. He is also one of the few Level 3 TPI Certified Fitness Instructors in Europe, TPI is the current gold standard in golf conditioning in the world and Darren attended the courses at TPI in Oceanside, California. |
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Darren can assess golfers of all abilities, prescribing a programme to correct any limitations which lead to common swing faults. Almost all swing faults have a physical cause, so it doesn’t matter how much coaching you have the fault will continue to manifest itself at some point. By eliminating the physical causes of the most common swing faults you are free to be coached to the swing you want and more importantly a consistent swing. Darren says, ‘fitness is incredibly important – but I will say this, the fittest golfer doesn’t win, the best player does. This may sound crazy coming from me, but too much emphasis is placed on getting bigger and stronger to hit the ball further. The reality is something as simple as tight calf muscles can lead to early extension, over-engaged hamstrings are almost always miss-diganised as ‘tight’ meaning lots of stretching, which in fact makes them worse. This means you have poor forward bend and a pelvis which doesn’t want to move robbing you of yards. In the short term I’m all about solving these problems so the golfer uses what they’ve already got – but uses 100% of it rather than the 30% they mostly use’. Attend the Titleist Performance Institute in Carlsbad, California Do you want to attend TPI to be screened by TPI founders Dr Greg Rose and top 100 coach Dave Phillips? TPI is not available to members of the general public, you can only attend TPI if you’re a Titleist tour pro, club pro or have been booked on by a Titleist club pro. As a Titleist CGFI Darren is allowed to book people into TPI for the 3 day pro experience, this is normally $10,000 USD (£5,300 GBP) per person but is reduced to $9000 USD (£4,740GBP) if accompanied by Darren. This is limited to one group of six people at a time and TPI only have 31 group slots available for the year which are normally booked 12 months in advance. This is a working facility with Tour pro’s and new Titleist equipment being tested so you may be asked to sign a confidentiality contract for your stay. If you’re interested in attending please contact Darren so he can start making the calls to California to get you in! The pro experience is exactly the same as names such as David Howell, Padraig Harrington and Vijay Singh went through. It includes;
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