4 Deepen Your Breath


LOOKING FOR A LITTLE ZEN REMEDY? Learning to breathe deeply and consistently can help. Focus on taking full, controlled breaths through your nose both in and out. With focus on your breath and relaxation in the body, you’ll find this simple technique to be a bonafide strategy. Exhale completely right before starting the motion to “defuel” the yip.


Did You Know? The yips are not correlated with anxiety. Anxiety


Exhale right before your


stroke to swing smoothly.


Notable Players Who Have Battled


may make the yips worse, but it’s not the cause. Yips in putting increases 18-hole scores by an


average of 4.5 strokes. Wearing ski gloves seems to help combat the yips.


The Yips Ian Baker-Finch, David Duval, Sergio Garcia, Ben Hogan, Bernhard Langer, Johnny Miller, Kevin Na, Mark O’Meara, Sam Snead, Tom Watson


5 Play Offense


LOOKING TO BUILD A STAUNCH PUTTING GAME? The very nature of your practice might put you in jeopardy of developing the yips. The fact is, rolling putt after putt from the same spot constitutes the small receptive movement pattern most susceptible to development of the yips. Randomize your practice by rolling each putt from a differ- ent location. You’ll practice like you play, creating an organic, yip-free environment.


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Randomizing your practice helps prevent the development of yip tendencies.


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