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Professional golfers know how important golf stretching exercises are to improving their game. A fitness routine gaining popularity within the professional sport of golf; Pilate's now can help the average golfer improve their handicap simply by doing some gentle lower back stretches.

Pilate's emphasizes building strength, flexibility, posture, balance, and coordination. These are all strengths that any golfer requires in order to increase his level of golfing success, plus Pilate's golf stretching exercises add energy and stamina. Stretching exercises are the key.

Injuries are part of the game and a professional golfer needs to be physically fit to keep up with the competition. Most golfers at one time or another experience lower back pain and stiffness due to the amount of force they need to make a full swing with their club. golf stretching exercises are the key to avoiding lower back pain injuries especially if you are a weekend golfer and may be a little de-conditioned.

Next time you tee up to play golf, Pilate's simple golf stretching exercises may be the answer. Take 10 minutes before that practice swing. These stretches work the hamstrings, spine rotation, waist, ribcage and legs and are all good lower back stretches as well.

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 have 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 resting 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, Pilate's golf stretching exercises just might be the perfect match play.

Susannah Marchese is a certified Pilate's fitness instructor and a senior contributing writer to http://www.everything-about-pilates.com/golf-stretching-exercises.html

Susannah Marchese - http://www.everything-about-pilates.com

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golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs. golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardized playing field or area; defined in the Rules of golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules.

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golf is a very old game of which the exact origins are unclear. golf is played in an area of land designated a golf course. golf courses have not always had eighteen holes. The first game of golf for which records survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, scotland, in A. The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf, possibly derived from the Scots word goulf (variously spelled) meaning "to strike or cuff". But there is an even earlier reference to the game of golf and it is believed to have happened in 1452 when King James II banned the game because it kept his subjects from their archery practice.

The origin of golf is open to debate as to being Chinese, Dutch or Scottish. However, the most accepted golf history theory is that this sport originated from scotland in the 1100s. A game somewhat similar to golf was first mentioned in Dōngxuān Records (Chinese: 東軒錄), a Chinese book of 11th Century. However, modern golf is considered to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of gowf. Some scholars have suggested that this refers to another game which is more akin to modern shinty, hurling or field hockey than golf.

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The word golf derives from the Dutch kolf meaning stick, club or bat. There are reports of even earlier accounts of golf from continental Europe. The oldest playing golf course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh Racecourse. Evidence has shown that golf was played on Musselburgh Links in 1672 although Mary, Queen of Scots reputedly played there in 1567. As early as the 15th century, golfers at St Andrews, in Fife, established a customary route through the undulating terrain, playing to holes whose locations were dictated by topography. The major changes in equipment since the 19th century have been better mowers, especially for the greens, better golf ball designs, using rubber and man-made materials since about 1900, and the introduction of the metal shaft beginning in the 1930s. Also in the 1930s the wooden golf tee was invented.

In 2005 golf Digest calculated that there were nearly 32,000 golf courses in the world, approximately half of them in the United States. The countries with most golf courses in relation to population, starting with the best endowed were: scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Canada, Wales, United States, Sweden, and England (countries with fewer than 500,000 people were excluded).

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It might seem a little off the wall to pay for something most people enjoy for free, but when it comes to radio theres radio and then theres XM Radio. The craze behind satellite radio might just now be taking off, but the fact is services like XM Radio offer a whole lot of choice for people that regular FM and AM just cant beat.

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