Linda Wessberg and LET physiotherapist Rosemary Rhodes demonstrate some exercises that are great for your golf.
For the first exercise, Linda's going to stand on one leg with her shoulders back - good posture. Tighten your core, slowly lower your leg, then come back up again. You need to make sure that the knee is over the foot and your tummy is pulled in and tight, and glute muscles are pulled in and tight in the hip too.
Now we're going to progress on to a lunge, and as Linda goes down into the lunge you can see that she keeps her knee not too far forwards, over her foot. The back knee is dropping down to the ground and she's got a nice straight line through her body.
Keep your core tight, keep your bottom tight, and go down again. Carry on going up and down slowly, keeping everything controlled.
To start off with the lunges, you're better off doing them like this, with a stable base, so you're not moving too much. That way you will get control of the movement.
If we want to progress this on and make it a little bit more difficult, we'll introduce some movement.
So this time Linda's going to step forward into the lunge, go down and then come back up, and then alternate sides.
You just want to make sure that every step is symmetrical, and that you keep that position that you had in the initial exercise. No wobbling, no going to one side, and make sure that this knee is facing the ground - so this exercise might be one that's best to do initially in front of a mirror.
Now, to progress the exercise on one more time and start to add an element of golf to it, we're going to introduce some rotation. Golf is very much rotation of the upper body around a stable lower body, so that's what we're going to introduce into the exercise. But you shouldn't do this exercise until you find the other exercises very easy.
Go down into the lunge, and then twist towards the bent leg side. Back to the middle, and then stand back up. Again, alternate sides.
As you do this one, try and make sure that your right knee faces the floor still.
By keeping the core and the lower abdominals tight, you'll have more control over what the legs are doing, and it also makes the exercise very much in one plane, so you're not wobbling from side to side. It also introduces new muscles like along the sides of the legs. We want to be strengthening the front of the thighs, the back of the bottom, and moving the upper body.
These are some great exercises for your golf: for your leg strength, your core strength, and they'll make a big difference to your swing.
Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.
Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.
Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs.
Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.
Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.
He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".