Which part of your golf game hurts more, the pain in your hands, shoulders, hips and back, or the fact that you’ve sliced on three out of your last five drives? What if they hurt exactly the same because one is directly related to the other? And what if you could cure them both with hydrotherapy? To outside observers, golf might seem like a leisurely stroll through the park, but anyone who loves the game knows that, after a certain age, golf hurts. Cramped hands. Wrenching twists and turns. Swinging on uneven ground. You bring those pains and tweaks and pinches home with you.

If you came home to a hot tub, a soak after the 18th hole could melt those pains away.

• Hot water loosens stiff muscles, like the kind that scream at you what you’re digging out of the sand in the bunker — again.
• Pulsing jets massage away muscle tightness, like the kind that flare up in your lower back every time you hit a 9-iron full swing out of the rough.
• Soothing hydrotherapy melts away inflammation, like the kind in your elbows and hands that forces you to let up on your swing before you fully follow through. That’s the reason you spend so much time searching in the woods for a ball that would have stayed on the fairway had everything not hurt so much when you swung. Couple that with a soak before you head out onto the course, and you’ll prepare your body for the rigors to come, improving your swing, improving your game and feeling good for once while you play.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but there’s nothing fun about nerve endings screaming at you on every swing. Hydrotherapy might just be the most neglected aspect of your game.

What you do before and after you hit the course matters just as much as what you do on the course.