The Golf Insiders 09/17/14

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Holly G and guest host Jeff Shain, PGATour.com, are in the studio wrapping up the FedEx Cup Championship for 2014. Rich Bianco is competing in the North Florida Match Play Championships where he is the defending Legends Champ. 

Billy Horschel, Florida Gators alum, won the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup title in the process. He finished the final three events with 2 wins and a tie for second place.

Jeff mentioned that after Horschel missed the cut at The Barclays, he went home and worked on his putting grip with coach Todd Anderson. Jeff said that when he missed the cut, Billy was about 150 in putting on the Tour. When he came back he putted lights out and has not stopped.

Jeff talked to Holly about the players who are on the U.S. Ryder Cup team that didn't play well in the Tour Championship or even make the final event. Jeff said that a lot of it is due to fatigue for the players and maybe not so much physical, but really mental while playing at such a high level.

Holly asks Jeff about maybe switching the Ryder Cup team picks closer to the Tour Championship event, or at least after the first event of the FedEx Cup championship to maybe get the hottest golfers on Tour. Chris Kirk and Billy Horschel are two of the top golfers in the United States now, but neither are on the team. They had not played well enough during the season for Tom Watson to possibly pick them or for them to make the team outright. 

Bob Harig, ESPN.com, calls in to talk to Holly and Jeff about Tiger's press conference Monday at Isleworth where Tiger introduced a new sponsor for the Hero World Challenge, which brings together 18 of the best golfers in the world and benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. The tournament, held in December each year, is being moved to Orlando this year.

Holly and Jeff talk to Bob about Tiger's health, his outlook, possible swing coach and when he might start playing golf again.

Holly also talks to Bob about Billy Horschel's win and the whole structure of the FedEx Cup. Bob offers some suggestions that others have talked about on how to fix the FedEx Cup. Bob feels the event needs to be more engaging and represent the Tour Championship.

With all the injuries of late in golf as well as what has happened to Tiger over the past few years Chuck Wolf, Director of Human Motion Associates, calls in to talk to Holly and Jeff about biomechanics in sports. 

Tiger is limited in his left hip and strengthening is only part of the fix for Tiger. Chuck says that first defining what the core is key. Core runs from head to toe. Chuck says that you have to find out what the root of the problem is and not fix the symptoms.

Holly feels that there may be a misunderstanding in the golf world of how to train physically. Integrating

There is definitely a role for strength training. Traditional lifts can be limiting in themselves. Chuck feels that in strength training if you are already immobile or are slightly immobile when you start strength training that you will add to that immobility. Strength training. He feels that you need to be doing strength training and mobilization to the hips and the thoracic spine and through movement you will not only gain the strength but also gain mobility. Chuck believes in Integrated movement pattern and integrated flexibility and not isolation training. 

Todd Lewis, the Golf Channel, calls in to wrap up the show talking with Jeff and Holly about how average Billy Horschel's golf season and then how he got hot at the right time. Todd feels that Billy has never lacked confidence but has questioned it at times. Todd feels that Billy's success will be a springboard for him in the coming years.

Holly also asks Todd his opinion about the timing of picking the Captain's picks for the Ryder Cup