Golf Stretching Exercises Help Pro Golfers Lower Their Scores

Try these Free Golf Stretching Exercises

•  Wall Roll Down: Stand with your lower back firmly against a wall, your feet a foot away from the wall, knees slightly bent. Inhale to prepare, exhale to drop your chin towards your chest and roll your spine off the wall one vertebrae at a time until your arms and head are hanging down over your hips and you’ve reached a point of resistance.

Inhale to stay, exhale to roll back up the wall making sure each part of your spine makes contact with the wall. Use your abdominals!

Repeat three times. Good for stretching hamstrings and spine.

•  The Saw: Find a bench. Sit with your legs extended in front of you, just wider than hips width apart. Arms are lifted shoulder height to the side. Inhale and twist your body to the right keeping your bottom squarely on the bench.

Exhale and round forward reaching the back of your left hand past the pinky toe of your right foot. Inhale rollback up, exhale and return center.

Repeat to the left and then repeat three more sets. Warms up hamstrings and spinal rotation.

•  Mermaid Stretch: Find a bench and sit on the front edge with your feet firmly on the ground and hips width apart. Inhale raise your right arm straight up to the sky, exhale and bend to the left, reaching out of the fingertips.

Inhale to stay, exhale return to center. Make sure to keep your bottom squarely on the chair and your spine upright.

Repeat both sides three times through. Stretches the sides of your waist and ribcage.

•  Golf Swing Stretch: Stand with your feet in a wide stance. Lean forward and with straight arms place your hands together in a prayer position, fingertips facing the ground.

Inhale to swing the arms up and to the right as if you were going to hit the ball, exhale and swing them all the way up and to the left. Keep your gaze down at the imaginary golf ball and keep your feet planted.

Repeat three times starting with the inhale to the right, and three times starting with the inhale to the left. Warms up spinal rotation and legs.

• Club Rotation: Stand with your golf club or better yet, try a weighted bar, and rest it over across the back of your shoulders and your hands holding either end.

Repeat the Golf Swing Stretch listed above.

So next weekend when you're out on the course playing you're 18 holes of golf, Pilates golf stretching exercises just might be the perfect match play.

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