Chopsticks Putting Drill

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This is the chopstick drill for putting, so one of the big concepts in putting

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is kind

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of feeling more of the arm connection and basically avoiding putting it with

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too much

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wrists and putting it more with either your shoulders or your body.

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And a good way to feel your shoulders or your upper body involved in the

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putting stroke

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is I believe the original inventor was Paul Hurian, but you basically take two

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alignment

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sticks and then you rubber band them together, you know, a foot or so down at

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one end.

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And then you're going to take the alignment sticks and stick them in your armp

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its.

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And what this will allow us to do is this is going to allow us to feel some

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connection

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between my arms.

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And now the main version I'll use is you're going to put your hands on the

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outside here,

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but you can also do it with your hands a little bit more on the inside,

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depending on what

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you like to feel in your arms, more of a kind of a pushing activation or more

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of a pulling

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activation or more of a pushing activation.

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Now I like to have an alignment stick here, so if I get the club in my armpits

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and I find

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kind of a good comfortable length of arm bend, so not too straight and not

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behind my body,

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comfortable length of arm bend, and then I bend and point this down at the

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alignment

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stick, this will just make sure that I can see kind of a symmetrical amount of

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curve.

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And this will allow me to feel what it's like to rotate my body on more of a

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stable

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axis pointing down at the golf ball.

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All common problems would be doing more of a lateral movement like this or

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doing too

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much rotation, basically almost rotating around a vertical axis instead of my

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spine.

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So if I'm rotating my shoulders more around my spine or rotating my upper body

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around

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my spine, it will tend to have a symmetric slight curve compared to this stick

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on the

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ground, or basically if I had a laser projecting out of this, that would follow

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the stick.

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And so the two short ends of the chopstick are arcing just slightly similar to

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how the

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putter face will arc if I just make a stroke that is on plane or close to on

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plane.

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So once I have a feeling here, the neat thing about if you've got them rubber

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band together

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instead of holding them together is you can actually hit putts while feeling,

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hopefully

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this is aiming pretty close, so you can actually hit putts while feeling the

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chopstick connection.

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Kind of like that.

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So it's a good bridge drill that you can do at home for feeling the arms and

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the shoulders

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working together but you can actually double with it making putts.

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It also helps with the visual ideas of what of the shoulder plane and the

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shoulder tilt

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and how your body is going to actually rotate more on plane instead of getting

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any funky

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either too much side bend, not enough rotation or rotating at the wrong angle.

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So if you're struggling with feeling a little bit too much arms and especially

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wrists in

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your golf stroke try the Paul Hurian's chopstick drill for improving your put

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ter pivot.