Breathing Patterns: How Deep Breaths Prevent Tension During Your Golf Swing

Breathing is the free performance tool that most senior golfers ignore. This guide explains the physiology of breathing as it relates to golf, identifies the specific ways that poor breathing habits affect the swing, and gives you a practical, immediately applicable breathing framework for every round you play.

This guide covers the complete breathing framework: the pre-shot exhale, how to breathe during the swing, the 4-in-2-hold-6-out recovery breath between shots, and the pre-putt breath that stops the jabbing stroke pressure creates. Plus: why lung capacity changes with age make deliberate breathing more important for senior golfers, and how the effect compounds across a full round.