Watching the best players in the world on TV can be so inspiring, BUT… sometimes it can lead us mere mortals to make decisions that are costly in terms of our score.
In this video, I will demonstrate a shot that might be less glamorous than the one you see Tour Players play (although they still do this often) but it can help you get a lower score, and with that comes more confidence.
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What type of golfer are you are you the one that wants to sit in the bar afterwards where they’re all talking about that one in a million shot that you’ve pulled off or do you want to be the one that’s got that clever strategy where they’re sliding the money across
The table to you because that strategy that golfing wisdom that you had out on the golf course that’s what we’re talking about here see I’ve got a little shot here I’m only just off the green there’s just a little raised area between me and the flag quite close to
The flag the one in the million shot it’s come up there with a lob wedge put lots of spin on it land it over it check it up let it go left or right with a slope and finish next to the hole but unless you’re super skilled with that
You may not pull it off very often so I’m going to show you a strategy here one that when you average it out it’s going to get you a far lower score and therefore more likely to have that money coming across the table to you so let’s
Get into it now what we’re going to do is we’re going to use our poter here and I’m actually going to use an eighton here because there is a bit of a slope here it’s going to be pretty quick I’m at LEL Golf Club beauti beautiful
Setting and we’re going to use an eight iron seven iron sometimes works really well it doesn’t matter Jack Nicholas used to talk about many many great golfers have talked about getting the ball on the green as soon as possible letting it roll out like a pot that’s
What we’re going to look at but we’re going to show you a very simple routine to go through to make sure you do it consistently so what I ask you do is to set up with your poter first of all here and when you set up with your poter for
Most of us that poter is obviously a pretty upright Club so actually if we compare that straight away the putter to the a time you’re going to see a in the light angle I put them both pretty flat you see the poter is a lot more upright
Than the Aon now what we’re going to do is we’re going to first of all get the Aon whatever Club you’re using to match that putter we’re going to bring it up to be the same lie there now obviously when I do that really important to realize and understand that that golf
Club now is going to sit like this so the toe is going to sit in the ground a little bit don’t worry about that you are going to strike it more towards the toe very slightly for this shot okay so what we’re really trying to do is replicate we’re trying to get ourselves
Set up with the putter put our Aon in its place and instead of letting the Aon sit here going to bring it up to where that putter is now there’s one other obvious thing different the Aton is much longer than the putter I’m going to
Again I’m going to hold it at the length of the putter I’m going to now make sure I’ve already done is I’ve replaced the putter with an Aton that’s what I’ve done same stance Etc now if you have whatever putting grip you have you may
If you have a claw one maybe you won’t use it but generally I want you to use the same putting grip that you would had and but in in your Aon here there okay now there’s only one final change so here I am now I’m pretty much in my
Putting set up but I just happen to be holding an Aon you can see I’m down the handle one final change I’m just going to ask you to allow your body weight to shift very slightly to the left foot the reason for that that’s just going to
Help you get that very clean strike coming down into the ball that’s the only change everything else stays the same so if you feel like you’re fairly firm with your wrist during your passing stroke do exactly the same thing if you’re somebody that you is aware of actually rocking your shoulders a little
Bit whatever it may be for you do the same thing we really are trying to just use your putting action we just happen to have changed it to an Aon okay so let’s get back into that position there I’m setting up the toe of the club is in
The ground because the shaft is much more upright I’m holding it down the length of my poter I’ve actually got my putting grip going on here and all I’m going to do is one final thing I’m just going to move my body weight fractionally forward to the left and
Then I’m just going to go ahead and hit my pup okay and you can see there hopefully that ball has just landed on the green started to run out it’s come up maybe about 6 7ot shorter the flag I’d liked it a little bit closer than that if I
Could have done but it still go back to what we said at the beginning as an average I’ve still got a pretty good odds chance of holding that part almost certainly going to have two no more than two parts rather than the occasional brilliantly spectacular shot we get up
And down but Mish hitting it and it ends up going much too far okay so just as a final recap all you’re really trying to do is take your putter take your putting stance replace it with whatever Club you feel is appropriate generally it’s going
To be an8 on 7 on 6 on somewhere around there but match it up in every direction from a live perspective here and from a length perspective the grip is going to be the same the only final thing is you’re just going to allow a little bit
Of body weight to come to your lead leg and then go ahead and use your pting stroke if you do that I’ve ever confidence that the money will be sliding across to you
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Just what I do but hopefully others will learn from this lesson 👍