Golf is so personal that applying anything to your own game can do more harm than good if it’s not carefully considered in the whole context of how you play.

In Katherine’s defense, I have to say that yoga is good for any physical activity you’re involved in. Stretching and core strengthening always help. I’ve noticed in my own game that the more days I play in a row the better I get. It’s occurred to me that it might be more about strengthening golf specific muscles than anything else.

About golf teachers having to be good golfers themselves; I’m sure Harvey Penick was a decent player in his day, but when he started to become famous he was an old man who couldn’t swing a club anymore, but he sure helped some of the game’s best players with his intstruction.

I like the idea that her book is written with Hank Haney. The idea that better golf is a combination of exercise AND golf instruction makes a lot of sense to me.

Met her a couple of times at the PGA Merchandise Show – which is rarely a good place to draw conclusions on what a person is really like – but I found her to be rude and condescending…which could very well have been because it was late in the day and she had been dealing with people for 8 hours. So I let that slide.

Maybe it just bothers me that she keeps getting publicity as this golf guru, yet I have never seen her with a club in her hands. How does she know what is good and what isn’t for the golfer ? Her knowledge of yoga is impressive, but I can’t shake the feeling that she is just a nice looking lady who found a niche for a few stretches and is now writing the same book over and over again, like a golf magazine “fixing” your slice.