Never Compromise Putter Fitting
Today having him on the putting green I’ve always said it not only do I believe Todd being the one one of the best instructors period uh when it comes to putting man let me tell you none better buddy app none better so you to say oh I’m excited overp couple things
Here that are important to understand you know we’re going to talk about how to properly fit a putter today and a new system Todd has for that Todd helped me understand that through having a proper setup I then need to be fit into the proper length putter yeah and a lot of
Times I see people with the putter they buy off the shelves adjusting Loft and L angle and doing things like that we never had to do that Todd just cut the putter to the length he needed it everything else fell into place a good setup would be simply eyes over the ball
Hands under the shoulders right so my hands are right under my shoulders and we always talk about hey if I’m gripping the putter properly all I got to do to check that is take my right hand off the grip without change my arm position and it should be in alignment if I’m out
Here and I let my arm hang or swing right it’s swinging inside this is a big one big hips over the heels so I spent some time with Joe Durant on this so players a lot of times you see players they crowd the ball and and here’s a
Cool thing with the golf swing short game puttings a lot of amateurs walk into the golf ball right they Place their feet before they do anything else so I always teach GPS grip posture stance so my stance should be the last thing I do and my point is this if I
Walk in I get too close to golf ball I set the putter down I need room right so what do amateurs do they kick their hips backward and now I’m on the right so if you take your stance first you’ll probably be too close to it but a lot of
People I’ve never seen anybody with their heels off the ground but I’ve seen a lot of people that can lift their toes and then look what happens the hands get outside the shoulder line the eyes fall way back inside the golf ball line you know so yes hips over hips over the
Heels and you love this here’s the thing I always show people and I’ve got a lot of video of of great players great Putters one thing you will see with the great putter is the shoulder joint is clear of the knee joint and why think about what’s Tiger’s favorite drill
Right-handed putting all right so if I stand here and I go like this when my right arm is jammed up right but if my shoulder is clear of my knees I can stand here all day and go like that because I’m not stuck so when I walk
Into a putt I want to basically the rotate tuck and tilt here it is just rotate slightly why because when I rotate my elbows in my wrists go into more flexion out my wrist my hands go into extension less control so yeah I like inward rotation tuck is just the
Point where you want have your elbows kind of resting on the front of your rib cage not tight not never behind not disconnected where I can float right behind guys we saw it all the time makes players very handsy no other way to stroke it you get them in front of you
It’s very easy now to Puff absolutely you’re clear not stuck so I go rotate tuck right tilt where do I always tilt from always the hip joint so I walk in tilt from the hip joint now adjust I’m walking on my right foot my left foot is
Back now I adjust my left and then I adjust my right now what I’m doing when I take my stance and like Patrick kley great example of this you know he’s kind of fluttering around with his feet a little bit I think that’s awesome because what he’s doing is he’s just
Finding that spot where he feels like man I’m really balanced I’m on the balls of my feet you’re going to rotate in Tuck elbows just going to sit knees and flex good now you’re just going to step with one foot and tilt hands come under your shoulders right then you adjust
Your feet now I can just take this tool your probably a little bit bent over than I bet you’re more bent over there than normal I’d probably get you about here right okay and so I’m just kind of yep now I’m just going to slide this tool
In and this this moves up and down it’s measuring it’s literally from the grip like this you know if you were up here right if you’re taller right you’d be up here but this thing slides it’s great see how when he did that guy my elbow started backing up behind my body
Started getting stuck yep so we’re at 30 in there so we literally this tool is measuring 30 in from the grip to the ground ground and then where do your eyes come to rest on this 11 Mir right so Kevin come come over my shoulder here
You know and you can see there’s a mirror here right with all the numbers here so basically what I’m looking at is where my ey line Falls and for me it’s 11 and a half for Todd it’s 11 right so we’re pretty close you’re 30 30 and 11
I’m 30 and 11 and A2 okay this to me is natural yeah that looks perfect and then there we go I’m at 11 and A2 exactly here come and we’ll zoom in on this chart this made my life easier right everybody so this is simple so
We go down 30 right that’s the vertical right then we go over to 11 and A2 and there’s adom shaft should be cut at 32 and a qu and that’s the length of this part and now let’s talk a little bit about weights yeah oh that’s big this is
Real big because here’s the thing yeah you know when I sat down with the people never compromised and we talked about I said look at if you’re going to have a fitting system you can’t just do length cuz people could take take their existing Putter and cut it down or grip
Down on it why would that work well look how cool this is guys bring it in here we talk about swing weight um and swing weight what is that if you just swing the grip of a putter of a golf club you go well there’s no weight right well
Swing weight is the weight of the club it as it swings now think about putting I mean how important it is that I can feel the weight of the putter it swings back and forth for my speak and just feeling the face just having any control
So if I put a club on a swing weight scale the swing weight scale the fum is 14 in past the end of the club well if I cut this end down right for every inch you cut it down you lose six swing weights think about it it’s literally
Going like this right so the lighter the longer the putter the lighter the putter head the shorter the putter the heavier the putter I put more weight on this side so the cool thing about never compromis we’ll take this cellophan off in a minute but it has holes here right
And so the holes we can put the weights in with a regular the you know driver tool whatever that you would use we’ll put the weights in so we’ll not only get the right length but we’ll get the right weights now you’ve got a putter that lets you set up that’s balanced the
Right length and this was cool high quality the putter is just raw right here he’s going to cut this to what we found there and then he’s going to put the weight in accordingly to what my length is pretty awesome and then we’re done right okay so we do have to choose
A grip we have three different grips and here’s something that’s that is important when you talk about the weight of a putter okay we go back to the swing weight scale and people don’t pay attention to this but they’re all these grips in the market there’s 100 putter grips in the
Market you got to pay attention to the gr weight of the grip because the fulcrum is right here well if I put a bunch of weight on this side what happens to this side now it becomes lighter so what’s cool when I sat down with them I said you know try to make
Can you make different grips there’s three different grips there’s the small one you know and this had to be a rubber compound then the biggest one and then there’s a middle siiz one they’re all around 72 G who thinks about that by the way not only the weight of the head
Matching the putter length but making sure the grip is the proper weight to balance the entire putter got well you can I mean it’s Crossing every te and Dot and every eye there you got to do it right right got do it right absolutely only one way to do things these are
Really tight and the reason why so people wouldn’t have to put lock tight in there right they’ll stay in once they go in and plus that you can chain take them out but originally they’re they’re really tight so you have to work with a little bit so then once you get them in
There just make sure you take them in till it clicks now let’s go over here and Putt with this a little bit actually yeah we got a couple balls in the bag oh looks good start up here do the do the yep perfect good Todd this thing lays so good on the
Ground how good are you dude right first one that was not that’s hey let’s go I told Kev we’re doing this first one here there’s five different models I just like you said I chose the one I knew that was right for you so it’s awesome five different models and can you
Explain them well there’s the typical blade plumber neck blade original ping and then there’s the everybody’s got a Fang putter we have face balance we have to hang and then we have a wider blade right basic models and then they all come in different the two different finishes straight Silver Platinum and
Then the contrast finish which I obviously I’m partial to that for I think it’s going to help a lot the big thing is we love this game we want you we want you to play your best putting is a huge part of your score 40 40% of it
Okay so with that being said let’s make sure we’re doing it right so what we want more than anything is for everybody to check putter length get fit get the right head weight now there’s not too many Putters out there that are doing that and this happens to be a system um
Thanks to never compromising Todd that they came together and made that possible and I and I just got a putter fit to me in five minutes
