Full Swing with a Putter

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This drill is full swing with the putter so no we're not working on the full

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swing we're actually still working on the putting but I find that a lot of

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golfers who struggle with distance control with their longer putts it's

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because they're they're taking they're not taking a long enough stroke and so

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there's two different versions that I'll give people for for doing this but

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this

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is basically freeing up your brain into what's the furthest I could hit it so

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you can see the large putting green that I have down below I'll usually do

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this from one end or I'll do this back up this big hill because I think you

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should at least be able to hit it a hundred feet or so if you're taking a

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full swing with your putter with good form and that's the part that I stress

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so good form means I'm not going to overuse my wrist and arms and I'm not

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gonna overuse my legs but I can overuse my shoulders and create a bigger stroke

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I

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just have to keep my lower body and my wrists out of this power source but I

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find that a lot of golfers have no idea how far they could hit a putt so then

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it's always a little bit of a guessing game game for the brain to figure out

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what percentage of their full shot would they want to do on any particular putt

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I think of it like if I if I only hit half wedges and I didn't know how far I

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could hit my you know my 56 degree wedge then knowing that well if I hit my

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56 degree of wedge a hundred yards well about a half swing is about here and I

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tend to hit that you know somewhere 60/70 like it it helps my brain figure out

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the math of how big of a swing to take so you're gonna make sure that nobody's

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in your way and you're gonna find a large section of the green and then you're

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going to practice taking full strokes and just kind of eyeballing about how

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far you're able to hit that I had a little bit extra lower body on that one

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but overall not too bad and you will see that these will end up you know

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close-ish to each other and then what I'm going to do now that I my brain has a

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little bit of a baseline is I'm gonna try and do not a full swing but I'm gonna

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bring it back maybe a three-quarter swing so how far does my three-quarter

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putting stroke and that might be my comfortable length swing maybe when I'm

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doing the full swing it's a little bit outside of my comfort zone but still

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this information helps me figure out about how big of a stroke I can

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comfortably make this will especially help if you play on big greens where you

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have a lot of 60/70/80 footers like the greens I grew up playing so this the

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first version is just kind of doing it willy-nilly hitting it as as hard or

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comfortable as you can the second version is where I work tempo into it and

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this

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is a little bit more of a challenge but what I want you to do is hit it as far

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as you can with a short a follow through as you can so now I have to really get

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this feeling of kind of the putter dropping but I'm gonna feel like there's

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almost a hard stop when the ball hits or when the club hits the ball so now I'm

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gonna do a long backswing to a short follow-through and the goal is I'm gonna

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try and hit this putt as far as I can with as short with as long a backswing

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and as short a follow-through as I can not my best stroke will do one more just

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for my sake then you can take this phase of the drill that's pretty good you

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can

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take this phase of the drill and you can apply it to hitting putts on your

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green

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which would basically be I want you to take as long a putting stroke with a

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short a follow through as you can and try to get it to roll an appropriate

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distance this is a while controlling a guide it like while swinging it but

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also being prepared to stop it you're decelerating it just slightly which

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allows you to have a little bit elevation in your touch it's really

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hard to have touch if you're over accelerating which is why one of my pet

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peeves for people who struggle with distance control is really applying a

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rapid and especially late acceleration I think of it as if I was tossing

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something underhand it's reaching its maximum acceleration right about there

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and then it's just kind of coasting into the release it would be really hard

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for

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me to have distance control if I was speeding it up right to the end so this

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drill of or this kind of experiment of how big of a swing can I take helps you

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feel the weight of the club swinging which is going to ultimately help you

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improve your ability to develop touch