Golfers strive for distance and accuracy on longer shots and for pinpoint control on approach shots to the green. Without good balance, you cannot achieve any of these objectives on a consistent basis. A balanced swing allows you to have better control of the club and deliver it squarely to the ball, ensuring accuracy. Balance is the ability to sustain our center of gravity when external forces are placed upon it. Yoga improves both balance and stability dramatically. Most of the standard standing poses in yoga require a tremendous amount of stability and balance.

Flexibility is important in the golf swing to allow the golfer to achieve the correct technical positions to improve performance as well as reduce the risk of injury. Adequate flexibility will also allow the golfer to sequence their swing correctly to improve consistency and power. Yoga provides a vast array of postures that both strengthen and stretch the body at many different angles in all ranges of motion. A regular yoga practice will increase functional flexibility and therefore naturally improve mobility. This may be the most important fitness component for a golfer to enhance and maintain.

Swinging consistently well requires focus. To play golf well — up to your capability — requires learning how to focus your mind on executing each shot. Golf requires total concentration but just for brief periods of time. … A golfer can learn how to improve his focus just as he can learn how to improve his swing. Yoga helps with sharpening the brain, it also reduces irritability and brings calmness into the practitioner. Pranayama, or Breathing techniques in yoga can be used in a therapeutic way to increase one’s focus.

The reflection process helps build a sense of commitment to the player’s development and that player takes the lessons/experiences from each round and is always moving one step forward. Yoga helps us understand those days when we find ourselves stuck in old patterns of thought and behaviour that have repeatedly let us down before. Breathing Techniques and postures are used to help us move in a dynamic tempo. Yoga helps us adapt to a new and different approach to those old habits that are not benificial to our golf game.

Strength is important in every sport, even in golf. … Proper strength training, on a regular basis, will help prepare a golfer for the physical demands put on their body, reduce risk of injury (lower back pain) and increase force production (ability to hit it further). With Yoga each pose is aimed at targeting a specific group of muscles and even the simplest poses, such as upward facing dog, can help tone muscles in the upper and lower body.