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Breathing for Balance  Email this Article to a Friend
Set up with your putter and address a ball. Stay in your set up posture and hinge using only your wrists (no arm movement) so that the shaft is parallel to the ground and 90 degrees to your body. Look at the face position. Is it square, open or closed? This will tell you where you are aimed. For example, if you are right handed and the face is open you are aimed right. The face angle changes based upon your heel to toe right to left balance and your hand position. Adjust your balance and hand position until you get a square face when you hinge. Once you get a square face upon hinging, ground your putter without changing your posture or hand position. Exhale and hold your breath for five (5) seconds. Hinge again and notice that your putter face has opened or closed. Begin stroking putts until you get your finish position square to the target line. Exhale and hold your breath for a count of 5. On the count of 6 stroke a putt. Notice that you push or pull your putt. One of my students is PGA Tour Player Dennis Paulson. Dennis was recently out for a session at my Golf School. When we went through the hinging exercise and showing the students how to read their balance and hand position, Dennis reminded me that I taught him to breathe when he swings and putts ten years ago. He recalled the difficulties he had in high wind at the 1994 PGA Tour stop at Pebble Beach, the AT&T. He told the Golf School students the story of his Saturday round in 1994 where he struggled with putting. He said: "Try to breathe holding your head out a car window going 30 or 40 miles per hour. You will immediately hold your breath and your balance will change." Dennis then illustrated the "Wright Hinge" demonstrating the subtle changes in balance when breathing is altered. Similarly, Paul Azinger said he didn’t play well on tour due to balance difficulties until he learned to breathe. Breathing is not only important in quieting your nervous system, it is also important in physical balance from putter through driver. In my Golf Schools I teach our students the "Wright Hinge" (patent pending) to "read" their set up. We have our students hit a variety of "bad" shots from different set up positions and stages of breathing. They quickly see the thin, fat, pushed and pulled shots these various positions produce and they find their typical miss. If you can hit your miss, you can correct it. You should learn from every shot you hit, good or bad.
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