Why Your Back Hurts After Golf (And Why It’s Not Just “Getting Older”)
If you play golf in Austin, there’s a good chance you’ve had some version of this conversation with yourself.
You finish a round. You feel fine on the course. Then you get in the car, drive home, and by the time you stand up in the driveway your lower back has locked up.
Or you wake up the next morning stiff, sore, and moving like someone twenty years older.
Low back pain is far and away the most common complaint we see in golfers. And the most common explanation golfers give for it is age.
That explanation is usually wrong — and believing it costs people rounds they didn’t need to lose.