Case Study - My Stroke

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Welcome back, golfers. I thought I'd provide a little bonus video where I can

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show you

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the helpfulness of this whole process of analyzing your own stroke. I've found

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that when I do

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these programs for you, I usually identify one or two things that I need to

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work on and

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just by doing a little bit of practice on that, it tends to improve. In this

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case, it

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was back-to-back weeks. I hadn't really been practicing my putting, but I

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wanted to put

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together this program. I did this putting stroke over here. Unfortunately, my

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PowerPoint's

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not playing the video, so we'll link them and include them. I didn't like the

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way some

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of it looks. I wanted to be a little bit better of a model for you guys, so

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then I cleaned

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a couple things up and filmed it the following week. Let's take a look at what

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little tweaks

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I made and what changed, but it all came from seeing my stroke on video and not

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just going

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on how it felt. That said, I hadn't been in playing lessons and things. I hadn

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't been

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putting great. My speed control was almost always really good, but I wasn't

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making a

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lot of the shorter putts, and I quickly was able to identify why. Those have

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improved.

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As a fun little case study, we're going to take a look at the strokes. I did

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two different

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recordings for this presentation about one week apart. When I was doing it the

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first time,

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that would be over here on the right. I was having a lot more pulls, pull

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misses, and

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then I was rolling in pretty well here on the left. We'll dig into looking at

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some of

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the differences, breaking down each individual position as we analyze my stroke

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as a little

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case study. If we look at it, I'm going to have the better stroke over here on

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the left

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and the original stroke here on the right. The most obvious thing to me was set

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up wise.

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I didn't have a lot of knee flex. When I look at that vertical line, my knees

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were too far

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back and so were my elbows. I was sitting back a little bit. My elbows were, I

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was bent

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more from the hips than I wanted to, less from the knees. My elbows were inside

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that

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vertical line. Also, because I was bent so much from the hips, that put my eyes

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outside

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of the line, which was tending to cause a little bit of a pull start line. The

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major

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thing I worked on setup wise was getting a little bit more knee flex and

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getting my elbows.

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As a result, my posture was a little bit more vertical at my hips and my elbows

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were sitting

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a little bit better underneath my shoulders. You can see the difference there.

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That helped

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get my eye line more on top of the golf ball. In the backswing, because of the

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knee flex,

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I was tending to have just a little bit extra arm pull, bringing it back more

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with my arms

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and less with my shoulders. The main thing where you'll see here is if you look

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at the

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putter face control, which we'll see from the overhead, in this original one,

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my putter

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face is pointing probably a good 5-10 degrees more to the right than it was

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there. The putter

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face was opening a little bit in the backswing. As a result, on the way through

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, I was getting

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a little bit more level shoulder turn, trying to close the face. Again, that

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was causing

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me to get some pull start lines. Here, I did a better job of rotating my

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shoulders underneath,

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and the putter face was pointing at the target a little bit longer. Some subtle

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differences,

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if you didn't really know what to look for, you'd say they looked very similar,

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but they

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weren't performing in a similar fashion, putting much better over here compared

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to this one.

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Here we are from overhead. Over here on the right, let's just look at one of

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these at

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a time. Over here on the right was more of the pull-based stroke. You can see

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that even

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right here, the club face was getting a little bit more closed. It was a little

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bit more open

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in the backstroke, and then getting closed here on the way through. As it comes

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towards

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the end, you can see how it's rotated even more, or rotated a little bit closed

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there

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in the follow-through. Then if we look at, pause that, if we look at, there we

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go, this was the

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retake. We can see the putter face is matching up pretty nicely there at impact

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. We're getting

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some pretty decent end-over end roll, putter face staying pretty square through

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to the

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follow-through. A couple of little tweaks had a big impact on my face control.

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Here you'll see the one outside. The putter face was a bit more open. At impact

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, the putter

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face on the one outside is just slightly closed compared to those lines. That's

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why I was

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having the pull-ness. I had to work through that little thought process to

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figure out

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why the putter face would be getting closed there at impact. Then here in the

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follow-through

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and the follow-through, you can see it was even more closed where here it's

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coming more

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straight through. The putter face was staying more square longer. When you look

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at these

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templates, you'll see that within about seven inches on either side of the

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stroke, there's

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very little face rotation. The face rotation happens more from moving up and

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down the plane

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rather than having a big independent twist. Here, I was having a little bit

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more independent

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twist from some arm action that was causing the putter face to get a little bit

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more closed.

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I wanted to just share this little case study of myself and my putting stroke

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and how when

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I make these programs for you, it often helps my game. This is strengthening

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the point that

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if you really want to master being your own coach, you're not going to be able

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to feel

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everything, you're not going to be able to just rely on feedback from the golf

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ball.

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I highly recommend getting really good at analyzing your own stroke, whether it

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's your

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full swing, your wedge play, or even your putting.