Hans Schokkenbroek

The Golfer's Fascia Check

Twelve questions, two minutes, and what your score means for your golf.

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You've played this course for years. Lately the back nine costs more than it used to: a backswing that doesn't go where it used to, a lower back that wants the cart ride home, a jaw you didn't notice was clenched until after the putt. This isn't about your swing. It's about the fascia wrapped around every muscle and joint you use to make that swing, and whether it still moves the way it did.

Why This Isn't About Your Swing

Fascia is the connective webbing wrapped around every muscle, joint and organ in your body. When it's hydrated and moving freely, force travels through you cleanly: backswing, weight shift, release. When it stiffens, everything downstream gets harder. The backswing shortens. The lower back takes the load it wasn't built to carry. The neck won't rotate as far one way as the other.

The twelve questions below aren't about mechanics or lessons. They're a map of where that tension has settled in. Score yourself as you are now, not as you were five years ago.

One honest line before you start: this will not add distance to your drive. There is no evidence that fascia work does that, and I'm not going to tell you otherwise. What it can do is give tissue that's been held tight for years a chance to move like tissue again.

The 12 Signs, Scored 0-2 Each

For each statement, pick a score: 0 (rarely), 1 (sometimes), or 2 (most rounds). Your total updates automatically.

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Your backswing is shorter than it was five years ago, and stretching has not given it back

Your lower back is tight by the 14th hole, or the next morning

You need more holes to warm up than you used to

You are stiff getting out of the car when you arrive at the club

One side of your body feels distinctly older than the other

Your posture goes late in the round, and you know it before anyone says so

Your neck will not turn as far one way as the other

Your grip pressure goes up on the shots that matter

You clench your jaw over a short putt

Your hips are tight after the drive to the course, or after riding a cart

On a golf trip, the second day is noticeably worse than the first

You have quietly stopped expecting the stiffness to go away

Total Score 0

Do this

Score yourself on all 12 before reading the next section. Answer as you are now, not as you were five years ago.

What Your Score Means For Your Golf

Your total updates live as you answer above (range: 0-24).

0-6

Your body is doing its job. The on-course resets are still worth having.

7-12

Early. This is the easiest stage at which to do something, and almost nobody does.

13-18

A pattern rather than a bad week.

19-24

This is costing you rounds now, and it will cost you seasons later.

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When A Self-Reset Isn't Enough

Daily practice loosens surface tension. It won't touch a holding pattern that has built up over years of playing through it, especially if your score landed above 12. That is fascia work done with guided hands, not stretching alone.

A single 45-minute session gives you a fascial assessment and an immediate, felt release. It's not a swing lesson and it doesn't claim to be one. It's a look at what your own tissue is doing, and a start on undoing it.

Know your score.
Now do something with it.

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