Fitness Friday: Protect your shoulder joints | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

*Every week Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. Here’s his advice for avoiding injury to your rotator cuff. Look for Weekend Tip tomorrow, and remember to follow me on Twitter: @RogerSchiffman.

Here’s Ron: Dave Stockton recently dropped by Golf Digest’s offices to talk to the editors about his short-game philosphy. He explained that putting and chipping are the only two facets of the game where right-handed players should let the left hand control the stroke. He was speaking purely about swing mechanics, but the advice Stockton gave is also great from a biomechanics standpoint.

Right-handed golfers who rely on their left arm to pull the club through impact are a lot more susceptible to rotator-cuff tears. Just ask Al Geiberger who used to be a left-arm puller and eventually had to have surgery to repair that shoulder’s rotator cuff. Dr. Lewis Yocum is the man who …