Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz: How Yoga Can Improve Your Golf Game

Ever wondered how golf professionals maintain such great strength and flexibility? It's the real key to the golf swing, allowing a full range of motion to the top and down through the ball. Many amateur golfers, embracing any and all tactics available to them, have turned to yoga, and it's not just for the body. Yoga also has benefits that help you focus, and eliminate thoughts that can distract you from your game. Check out this quick video as Blair O'Neal, host of The Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz illustrates how yoga can help your golf game too.

Wikipedia: Yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: योग, yoga) is the Hindu practice of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India.^[1][2] The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on the Hindu concept of divinity.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi, I’m Blair O’Neal, host of Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz

Today I’m here with Amanda Himmelsbach. She will be showing us a few yoga postures to help us with our golf game.

Amanda: Hi, Blair, and thanks for having me on the Golf Buzz. Did you know yoga will not only improve a golfer’s mobility and flexibility but will also help keep the mind calm and focused. The golf swing starts from the ground up: the lower body, hips, core, spine, shoulders, arms and out through the club.

There are many yoga postures to help one’s game but today we will be focusing on the main area of the body, the back.

Blair: As a professional golfer, I know how important it is to keep the back strengthened. The number one injury in golf is to the back. So Amanda is going to take a through a couple things we can do to help us strengthen our back and improve your play on your next Myrtle Beach golf trip.

Amanda: We are going to come forward all the way down on our bellies. You are going to keep the palms under the shoulders and either the chin or forehead will come to the mat. You really want to press through the tops of the feet. Here you will lift the head and shoulders and start to straighten the elbows as far as you can. Only when you feel you can’t go anymore, pause for a breath and exhale slowly. This will help strengthen the low back and the core.

Next we will go into boat pose. You will bend the knees and bend the feet in towards the back. You can stay here and work on the chest or you can leave the chin on the floor and lift the knees. Or you can lift the chest and knees.

Take and inhale and exhale and we will push back to child’s pose.

Blair: Make sure to check back at Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz.