There is a big difference between weight training and body building. If you build too much muscle, you lose flexability. You need flexibility to create coil - the more flexable, the more coil. Power and speed come as a result of the unwinding of the coil built. This is why Charles Howell III, who is 5'11" and 155 lbs can be 56 in driving distance for 2005 with an average of 293.6 yds. I am not much bigger (6'2", 180 lbs) and I average somewhere around 290 - 300 yards (I don't have a statistician to follow me like the tour players do!!).

Weight training is definitely good because it keeps your muscles active and you are getting a good, healthy, even workout and is balanced with cardio fitness. Body building is simply to gain bulk.

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Gord

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"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall