Hit From The Top

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This putting drill video is hit from the top so hit from the top is one of my

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favorite

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putting drills for working on speed control because it combines the two most

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important

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skills for speed control, length of backswing training as well as tempo

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training.

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So basically hit from the top, we use it in the full swing as well as chipping

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or the

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finesse wedge for working on sequencing and acceleration rates, we're going to

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use it

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the same here, we're just going to do it from a couple different length back

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swing.

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So the normal setup that I use is something similar to this, where I have a T

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at about

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30 feet and then another T at about 15, but you can pick any two distances or

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you could

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combo this with something like the 30, 40, 50 drill or something like that.

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So basically what we're going to do here is we're going to try to keep our

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setup the

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same and we're going to pre-determine how big of a backstroke or a backswing we

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're going

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to take and then our goal is to roll it even to those T's, we're not really

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working too

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much on alignment here, we're just focusing on length of swing, comboing with

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distance

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control and you can either do a couple at each or you can alternate going back

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and forth,

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the better you get I like to do more of the alternating back and forth.

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So now I set them up at 15 and 30 feet or roughly five and ten paces.

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So I know that 30 feet should be about a 15 inch backstroke for me, although

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the greens

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are a little bit flow today so I'll probably add an extra inch or two to the

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backswing

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length.

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So if I get into my normal setup position, 15 inch backswing is going to be

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somewhere

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around there.

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So I'm going to try and hit a put where I get there and stop and yes they are a

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little

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bit slow today.

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So now I don't want to change my tempo in my head, I'm going to change how long

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of a

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backswing.

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So there you'll see that's just slightly bigger and I went, that was the right

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distance, so

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I went a little bit more to the right of that golf ball so that I made sure

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that I didn't

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hit it.

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Now if I want to, I can either switch targets or try to match that with an

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actual stroke.

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So now I'm going to try to match it where basically there is no pause, let's

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see if

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we can match that.

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So there we had no pause and we tried to take it back the same length, back

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swing to

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get the same roll.

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So that looked pretty good so now I'm going to try to go to the shorter one.

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So now my reference for the shorter one is more bringing the putter back,

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somewhere

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in the eight to ten inch range or about the outside of my foot.

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So here I'm going to get into that same setup position, we're going to bring it

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back and

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now from here I'm just going to feel like my arms and the putter drop as dead

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weight

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and again they're a little bit slow so I probably should have added more to it

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but that wasn't

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too bad.

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So we'll do one more where we're going to bring it back and then drop it and

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that was

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almost an identical putter.

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So now we're going to try to match that same speed more dynamically where we

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bring it back

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or we swing the club back and then release and this should go just about the

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same speed.

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So now I've got a few balls left and we'll alternate going back and forth

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between those

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two length shots.

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So now I'm going to bring it back, have a clear pause and then a clear start

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and swing.

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That gets me close to the 30 and then I'm going to do a clear pause, bring it

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back to

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the foot, stop, stroke through.

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And so like I said at the beginning, this is one of my favorite drills for

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working on

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speed control because it combos, having to trust my tempo in the length of

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swing to control

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the distance.

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If you have a hard time doing this, what you'll quickly find is that you either

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accelerate

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it or kind of slow it, guide it down.

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So it's more of a tempo problem where with the pause, I rarely see people

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struggle with

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the length of backswing component but what this does is this ties keeping the

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same tempo

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to the length of backswing that you take.

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So I highly recommend working this into your distance control practice.

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This will have a big impact on your ability to cut down three puts on the

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course.