Strike the pose to better golf

Warrior 3, with a golf club

It didn’t take long for Katherine Roberts to pick the five yoga poses that offered the most benefit for women golfers.

Women, Roberts noted, tend to be more flexible than men but less strong. So a “yoga for golfers” tipsheet that might appear in, say, Golf Digest might not apply so deeply to women readers. In fact, flexibility exercises might only help us overswing and sway more than we already do. We’ve had enough golf lessons to know better.

The March issue of GottaGoGolf, the free online women’s golf magazine, goes into detail about the poses. But, if you’re following along at home, here they are: Articulated Bridge, Warrior 1, Warrior 2, Extended Side Angle and (shown here with a golf club in hand) Warrior 3.