CSSC Marketing Contest - Next Draw is July 31

The CSSC started up in 1996 with about 120 players and with your help, it has grown to where it is today.
As a thank you, we want to reward you for your continued support of our Club, and we want to hear your stories! Please see below for prizing and contest details.

For everyone that organizes a staff team, creates a CSSC facebook group, simply spreads word of mouth, or uses some other creative method to let people know about the CSSC, we want to hear from you!

Please submit your stories and let us know what you have done to promote the CSSC to your friends, family, co-workers or even to strangers. All submissions will be entered into a draw to win prizing from our sponsors, such as Sleeman beer, Sponsor Bar gift certificates or Russell Athletic clothing. There will also be prizes for the most creative/effective recruitment methods as voted by our staff. Draws will be made twice per season. The next draw will be made on July 31.

CLICK HERE To Enter the Draw

Keep up the good work and we hope to read your stories and comments soon!

Michelle and Dave 
Marketing and Special Events

Field Improvements

The CSSC employs a full time field repair man, Murray. He has been out all season improving fields. His repairs include, mowing, lining fields, painting goalposts, and other general maintenance tasks. If you want Murray to make a field improvement, let us know about it. Tell us the field and the concern by including this in the comments section of your game reports or email info@calgarysportclub.com.

Recent Field Repairs:

World Health Club - Training Tips

GOLF CONDITIONING

I play a lot of golf and have seen many golfers play. Many of them have the same problems. Golf is a game of consistency, and most amateur golfers are very inconsistent. There are a couple of reasons for this: hip flexibility, shoulder flexibility and overall conditioning and a proper dynamic warm up.

The average score has not changed very much in the last 50 years, even with our new technology of $500.00 Drivers and $2000.00 irons. Golf conditioning is just as important as hockey or football training.
Golf is a very repetitive sport and because of this, many muscle imbalances and weaknesses occur. The following are some waysthat you can improve your golf game.

Hip Flexibility: Having tight hip rotators causes 2 things: To clear your hips on the follow through you will have to extend your back unnecessarily, and when you rotate and extend your back at the same time, you put a lot of pressure on your spine, which causes back pain. If you do not extend your back, you will more than likely turn your hip and foot out to clear your hips, which in turn may cause you to slice the ball.

Shoulder Flexibility: Tight shoulders will cause you to come off your swing path, which will cause errant shots. Tight shoulders will rotate your body too much on the back swing.
Some preventions for this are overall conditioning and proper warm up.

Overall Conditioning: This includes flexibility, cardio, and weight training. Golf is a very repetitive game which needs endurance: both muscular and cardio.
Stretching your hips, back and shoulders throughout the day will be beneficial. A few other helpful tips are: going for walks and participating in a weight training programthat works on the muscles that you do not use while playing golf, and in the off season working on all the muscle groups.

Dynamic Warm Up: This very important to prevent injury and prevent having a bad game. This includes putting your body through a dynamic range of motion such as Over head squats, hip swings, trunk rotations etc. This is then followed by swinging a light club in your bag and then a heavier club in your bag. You should then feel warm, loose, relaxed, and mentally prepared for your game.

In addition to the above it is also very important to stay hydrated on the golf course as well as to have proper nutrition. A typical golf game is between 3-5 hours long. You must eat and drink properly to maintain your strength and blood sugar throughout the round.

Brad Mizener - Certified Personal Trainer/Strength and Conditioning Coach