Feeling the weight of the putter head

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This concept video is feeling the weight of the club head.

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So while it's true that the putter doesn't actually swing like a true pendulum

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it does

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share some properties similar to a pendulum and so one way that I'll help golf

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ers feel

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a little bit more consistent rhythm is if, or consistent acceleration I should

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say, is

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if you take your putter and you grip it out in front of you like this and then

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you just

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bring it back and just kind of let it go back and forth and you try to just

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kind of let

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it swing from about the same height in the backstroke to the throughstroke and

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then you

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close your eyes and I'll just ask okay now how does that compare to your normal

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putting

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stroke and most golfers will say that that feels either slow or long or it's

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like it's

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decelerating like it doesn't feel anything like the putting stroke.

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So then what I'll do is I'll apply force to the pendulum so I'll either apply

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force

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right at the beginning kind of like this you see with my eyes closed or I'll

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apply it

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right at the bottom kind of like that and oftentimes golfers who have distance

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control

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problems will feel the putting stroke very similar to that second one where

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they bring

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it back and then right when they get to impact they're trying to apply a force

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and that's

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basically like speeding the putter up just like that and you'll see that when I

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do that

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I have a much longer follow through than I do backswing that's one of the other

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traits

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that typically you'll see with poor lag putters is that they're typically more

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mismatched

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where it's a shorter backstroke and then a really long follow through due to

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over acceleration.

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So then once I have this feeling of kind of letting the putter drop and letting

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it just

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kind of swing itself then I point out that the center of the where the putter

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is swinging

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around is not what I'm holding.

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So I'm not doing this pendulum with my hands but the center of the pendulum is

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actually

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the front of my spine.

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So if I had it here now I'm feeling like my my whole shoulders arms and club

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will feel

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like the weight of the club not just what I felt in my hands.

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So now I'm trying to get that feeling of just the putter swinging about the

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same distance

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back and through with its fastest speed right at the bottom not accelerating

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harshly through

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the ball.

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I think that a lot of golfers who have poor touch tend to over accelerate the

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putt through

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the ball.

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So then once I have this feeling I'm going to try and apply it with a golf ball

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and

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just kind of pay attention to the feel of matching the stroke or matching the

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length

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of follow through to the backswing.

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And other way that all for some golfers this works really well for others it

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doesn't quite

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translate.

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So then I've a couple other ways that I'll help them feel kind of hitting it

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more with

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the wrecking ball of the putter as I like to call it versus really accelerating

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it.

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So one other way is if you bring your arm up to your side and then you just

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relax your

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muscles it will accelerate into your side.

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And I'll compare that to a guiding stroke where I'm kind of bringing it in like

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this.

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Or I'll compare that to an acceleration stroke where you can see a lot of

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tension and it

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almost like stays up against my side instead of just bouncing off of it.

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So if I'm truly just letting it drop then there's this feeling of it hitting

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with dead

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weight and it's accelerating right into it but then right when it hits it there

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's a little

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bit of a stop.

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So I'll use that feeling as well but again that feeling is not just arms and

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hands that's

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happening more from my spine and up in my upper body.

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So now if I want to get that feeling of dropping I bring it back and I just let

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the putter kind

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of drop and reach its maximum acceleration at the ball.

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Here's the stick is aimed just a touch to the left and finally we get one

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online.

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So this feeling of dropping the putter into the wall will help you be able to

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control

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your speed control which is one of the more important skills for really elev

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ating your

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putting game.

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So if you're struggling with your tempo or your distance control you can use

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either

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this feeling of swinging the putter or dropping the arm into the side and then

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you can measure

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progress either by the meter stick drill or by the three balls of the same

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drill but either

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way that should help with your acceleration rate and controlling your distance

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control.