I Wish I Knew This Putting Concept 30 Years Ago

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I wish 30 years ago before I started coaching somebody would have taught me this basic putting concept because once I learned it it made me a way better Coach when it came to improving my students putting and that concept is how should the putters be working as it

Comes in contact with the golf ball should it be slowing down should it be accelerating or should it be maintaining speed and you probably are thinking to yourself well we know it shouldn’t be slowing down we know that we don’t want to decelerate but a lot of golfers are

Taught to accelerate and almost pop it and I don’t think that that’s correct what we want is we want to make sure that the putter is maintaining speed and I got a couple great drills I’m going to share with you on how to do that because when the putter is maintaining speed

Through the strike it’s much easier to be consistent with the delivery and therefore you’re consistency with rolling the golf ball the right distance so let me go ahead and show you what that looks like then we’ll talk about a couple drills so I’ve got my gtrack and

I’m set in here I’m just going to you can do these if you’re rolling it to a cup maybe 20 30 ft or you don’t even have to go to a cup cuz we’re really focused more on the delivery speed so a good motion would look something like

This where I’m rolling the ball and the putter is maintaining its speed through the strike now you can see that ball rolled really well and it had good distance to it now a lot of golfers because they’ve been decelerating when they get in and they get set to putt

They actually try to accelerate and the ball pops off the face and it’s very difficult to control that distance so the first concept that I want you to learn here is that the should be maintaining speed as it comes in contact with the golf ball so how can we

Practice that well my favorite drill I’ve got two of them for you but one of my favorite drills is what we call the pause and go so here’s how it works I got my gtrack set in here and what I’m going to do is I’m going to make a

Backstroke and I’m going to literally pause and count to myself a 100001 10002 and then I’m going to go ahead and go forward okay so it looks like this I’m set in back th1 10002 and then I’m going to go forward now why does this work well

It works because the purpose of the backstroke on any shotting golf is to create the right amount of length and the right amount of speed so that the club can maintain its speed going through and deliver the proper Cadence and Rhythm to get the golf ball to go

Where you want it to especially on the short game shots little different as we get into drivers and power swings and things like that so let’s go ahead and hit one and I’m G to share with you one more drill so here we go I’m set in here

All right I’m going to take it back th1 th2 and then I’m going to go ahead and just let the putter flow forward now great speed on that great Rhythm great Cadence what you’ll notice is that if your back swing is too short and you stop and pause you’re going to feel like

You have to accelerate if it’s too long you’re going to have to decelerate so it’s a great way to train the length of the stroke required for the distance that you want the golf ball to travel now the second drill that I want to share with you that I share with almost

All of my students is what I call called a trail hand only so I’m a right-handed golfer and I’m just going to go ahead and grip it in my trail hand my right hand and just make some practice swings and some motions now the reason I love

This is because when we think of other things that we do you throw a baseball softball a football you’re you’re writing with a pencil or a pen you typically do things with your dominant hand that’s where your best touch and your best feel is and in a good putting

Motion okay I believe all right if you watch any of our stuff you know this that the lead side kind of controls the club face so that it stays square and the trail side is kind of your power source all right it’s your Rhythm it’s your feel it’s what delivers the power

So this drill here Trail hand only I just go ahead and make some motions let the putter kind of swing like so all right you’ll notice I’m also doing this drill while looking at the cup or where I want the ball to go because I’m really

Engaging my senses go ahead and get set up just kind of let it flow oh fantastic and what you’re going to find is really great Rhythm so I wish 30 years ago somebody would have taught me that the putter should be maintaining speed as it comes in contact with the

Golf ball not accelerating certainly not decelerating it’s maintaining speed these couple Concepts these drills can help you do just that