摘要：The main goal of this paper is to describe some of the most common golf injuries. Golf is a sport of high popularity and increasing number of players in the world. In our Croatia golf is growing dominantly as one of key elements development of planned tourism development in our country. The intensities of the activity is low, but the duration is high and as there is no contact to other players, it is not categorized as sport where injuries are frequent. Though , several type of injuries are present in the amateur and professional golf as well. The golf swing is a complex coordinated movement engaging almost entire body musculature, and is being characterized with body rotations in all axis. The factors that may affect the occurrence of injuries are repetitive movements and/or large impact forces, improper technique during one of the swing phases, equipment/golf clubs change or the clubs that are not appropriate to the level of golfers quality, technique, physical condition, age and gender. The lower back injury is the most common injury in golf, more precisely it is a rupture of the back muscles and overuse syndromes or inflammation of muscle insertions. The elbow and forearm injuries are in second place injuries occurrence in amateur and professional golf, which are followed by ankle and foot injury, shoulder, upper arm and knee injury. The expert knowledge in field of kinesiology and training process, swing biomechanics and physical preparation have a direct influence the reduction of locomotor system load during the game and thus reduces the incidence of injuries
关键词：injury;golf;golfer's fracture;golfer's elbow;low back pain
