Breaking down putter face control

WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820
This concept video is breaking down face control with the putting stroke.

2
00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:10.800
So the wrists have two main actions.

3
00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.340
They go up and down like this.

4
00:00:13.340 --> 00:00:18.520
That controls the lie angle of the putter like that.

5
00:00:18.520 --> 00:00:21.160
And they go forward and backward like that.

6
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:25.230
That controls a little bit of face control but mostly loft and the only reason

7
00:00:25.230 --> 00:00:25.920
it controls

8
00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:31.340
face control is because it tends to move the putter forward or backward within

9
00:00:31.340 --> 00:00:32.740
the plane.

10
00:00:32.740 --> 00:00:38.430
The main things that twist or rotate the putter face are not your hands and

11
00:00:38.430 --> 00:00:39.480
your wrists,

12
00:00:39.480 --> 00:00:43.420
but they either come from your forearms, pronation, supination, or they come

13
00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:43.760
from your

14
00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:48.290
shoulders, internal, external rotation, or they come more from your shoulder

15
00:00:48.290 --> 00:00:48.960
blades,

16
00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:56.690
traction, retraction. So if I keep my wrists in a slight older deviation, that

17
00:00:56.690 --> 00:00:57.740
tends to

18
00:00:57.740 --> 00:01:03.430
lock the lie angle of the club, and if I prevent my wrists from having more

19
00:01:03.430 --> 00:01:04.500
than a degree

20
00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:09.050
or two of flexion extension, so if I keep them in that position, then the only

21
00:01:09.050 --> 00:01:09.540
things

22
00:01:09.540 --> 00:01:14.800
that are going to cause rotation are going to be above my wrists and hands.

23
00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:24.300
So this pretty much helps me lock out or control my putter face control with a,

24
00:01:24.300 --> 00:01:24.680
at least from

25
00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:26.220
the hands perspective.

26
00:01:26.220 --> 00:01:31.540
So then I have to dissect what's happening if I push or pull a putter.

27
00:01:31.540 --> 00:01:35.790
So if I'm, if I miss a putter to the right, it's more of a push for a right

28
00:01:35.790 --> 00:01:36.720
hand golfer.

29
00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.960
If I miss it to the left, that's a pull for a left hand golfer.

30
00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:44.680
The overwhelming control of start line in a putting stroke is the putter face.

31
00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:49.320
So if I push it, that means that the putter face is getting open.

32
00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:53.880
That will typically happen if either I have a lot of face rotation in the back

33
00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:54.540
swing, which

34
00:01:54.540 --> 00:02:00.230
is coming from too much arm rotation, or if I create too much lag in the down

35
00:02:00.230 --> 00:02:01.040
swing, which

36
00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.360
would create too much shaft lean and open the face, because if I motorcycle it,

37
00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:05.840
I would

38
00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.760
be hard, I'd bounce it off the ground, I wouldn't be able to control loft.

39
00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:13.720
So that's a common one is just kind of lagging it this way.

40
00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:18.700
Or if my putter stroke is way into out, sometimes I'll counter rotate it and I

41
00:02:18.700 --> 00:02:20.000
'll almost open

42
00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:21.840
it up.

43
00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:27.530
One other one would be if the face stays purely square, but my stroke is a

44
00:02:27.530 --> 00:02:27.960
little bit

45
00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:34.750
into out, then the face being square to the path, was now pointing right of the

46
00:02:34.750 --> 00:02:35.480
target

47
00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:38.320
because of the path.

48
00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:44.010
So then, and one other common one, I almost forgot, is more of a blocking type

49
00:02:44.010 --> 00:02:44.280
motion

50
00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:45.960
of the left arm.

51
00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:50.290
So some golfers kind of really have it kind of get pulled where that arm

52
00:02:50.290 --> 00:02:51.320
disconnects and

53
00:02:51.320 --> 00:02:54.990
you can see that I miss that way right, because when I pull it this way, that

54
00:02:54.990 --> 00:02:56.320
tends to open

55
00:02:56.320 --> 00:02:57.320
the face.

56
00:02:57.320 --> 00:03:01.650
It is possible to pull it closed, but that usually happens more from that trail

57
00:03:01.650 --> 00:03:02.280
shoulder

58
00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.320
than the lead shoulder.

59
00:03:04.320 --> 00:03:08.390
So then if we look at missing it left, so that was a number of the common

60
00:03:08.390 --> 00:03:09.080
reasons why

61
00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.800
golfers miss it right, if we then look at missing it left or having more of a

62
00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:14.040
pull pattern,

63
00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:18.790
the most common ones would be either having too much rotation or movement from

64
00:03:18.790 --> 00:03:19.480
that trail

65
00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:21.160
arm trail shoulder.

66
00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:25.930
So kind of feeling like this and the putter typically has a lot of rotation and

67
00:03:25.930 --> 00:03:26.620
finishes

68
00:03:26.620 --> 00:03:29.320
closed.

69
00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:34.760
It could happen if I tend to rotate my shoulders a little bit more level, so if

70
00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:36.040
I'm not rotating

71
00:03:36.040 --> 00:03:42.470
them on the putter plane, but if I'm rotating them more vertical, then that

72
00:03:42.470 --> 00:03:43.120
will tend to

73
00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:48.360
pull the putter path inside and close the face.

74
00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:54.830
Then if I was to radially deviate, so I started with a bit of this unhinge or

75
00:03:54.830 --> 00:03:56.280
ulnar deviation

76
00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.870
kind of more like this, if I was then to radial deviate and pull it down, that

77
00:04:01.870 --> 00:04:02.400
encourages

78
00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.870
the putter to pass, which can cause the club to get or the club face to get

79
00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:07.840
pointing more

80
00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:08.840
left.

81
00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:13.600
So it'll look a little bit more like that.

82
00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:17.680
One other common one is having lower body rotation.

83
00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.370
So some golfers will tend to rotate the body in order to look at it, and you

84
00:04:23.370 --> 00:04:24.320
can see that

85
00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:28.610
that will tend to pull the putter path way to the left, which would cause me to

86
00:04:28.610 --> 00:04:29.040
miss

87
00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.600
it to the left unless I held the face open the right about.

88
00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:35.510
So if you're missing it right or left, I would look above the hands and look

89
00:04:35.510 --> 00:04:35.920
more at

90
00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:41.430
the forearms and the shoulders to see what the right arm and what the left arm

91
00:04:41.430 --> 00:04:42.240
is doing,

92
00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.340
and then either trying to balance the two of them or try to use the single arm

93
00:04:46.340 --> 00:04:46.800
drills

94
00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.820
to train the individual pattern.

95
00:04:48.820 --> 00:04:52.040
This is more of a concept video to help you kind of wrap your head around, well

96
00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:52.480
, how do

97
00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.400
I approach if I'm missing it right or missing it left?

98
00:04:56.400 --> 00:04:59.560
And the simple answer is you want to look at where the club face would be,

99
00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:00.320
assuming that

100
00:05:00.320 --> 00:05:03.520
your visual alignment and physical alignment are okay.

101
00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:06.390
But hopefully this helps you understand that the wrists are typically not

102
00:05:06.390 --> 00:05:06.880
causing your

103
00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:12.570
putter face control issues, but they might be complimenting one of the problems

104
00:05:12.570 --> 00:05:12.960
that

105
00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:17.200
is causing your stroke to consistently cause a pull or a push.