Length of Backswing Training

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Okay, now that we know that we're hitting the ball in the center of the club

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and we

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have a consistent gravity, what else can we use to determine the distance is

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the length

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of the backswing.

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So if you remember from the how to re-green section, I talked about pacing your

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putts,

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which a lot of players have had success with.

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This is a way to kind of map the pacing of the putts and make it even more

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relevant.

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So right here, I've got a golf ball.

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If I was going to set up and take a few strokes, right, concentrating on my

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acceleration rate,

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I'm going to vary the length of backstroke, and I'm basically going to hit a

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few putts

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at each different backstroke distance, and then I'm going to pace them off to

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measure

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them.

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It's one easy way to map my body and my putting stroke that I've found very,

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very successful,

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both with myself and with a lot of clients.

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So I use my body as the landmarks, but I'll teach you a couple of ways you can

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do this.

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So I will hit three putts where I use the front of my thigh as the distance I'm

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taking

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it back.

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So I'm basically bringing the putter back until I feel like my hands are right

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in front

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of my inner thigh, and then I'm going to hit it as hard as I can, or I'm going

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to smoothly

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accelerate to finish.

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I'm going to do that for my inner thigh, for my outer thigh, and outside of

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pocket.

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So I feel a lot of my feel with my hands.

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So that's why I use, that's my stock one, that's my stock two, and that's my

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stock three.

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So inner thigh is one, outer thigh is two, outside pocket is three.

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Now if I hit three putts and I pace those and they're all within a foot of each

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other,

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and I'm doing this well, and I can use that on the green.

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So typically my inside thigh putt at my home course goes about eight paces.

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So that means when I'm on the green, if I'm eight paces away, I know all I need

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to do

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is take my hands back to the inner thigh, and the ball is going to go the right

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distance.

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Obviously I will adjust based on the course that I'm playing, and I will

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basically measure

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my normals on their practice green.

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So when I get there, I'll get there 20 minutes early, hit a few of my number

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one putt, and

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say it only goes six paces, well now I know that this is my six pace putt today

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Okay, so you can either use your body landmarks like your thigh and your pocket

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, or you can

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use the putter head if you're more visual.

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So in that case, I'm going to take the putter back until it's even with my foot

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, or the

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inside of my foot, my big toe.

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I'm going to take it until it's even with the outside of my foot, and I'm going

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to take

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it until it's about four inches, six inches past.

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So that's one other way to map your distances.

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Another way that you can practice this is using putter head widths, because

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some people

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are very good visually, and you can see the putter, it's always with you when

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you putt,

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so you have a very constant reference point, and you can say okay, if I take it

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back one

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putter width, it's going to go this far.

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So what you would do is you would basically put one tee on the ground to

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identify where

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you're starting from, and then you would put another tee on the ground to

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identify first

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distance back, and then you would put another tee on the ground for second

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distance back,

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and then you would put a third tee on the ground.

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So now I can go ahead and hit some putts, where the putter is going back

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roughly the

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distance each one, and then I would measure those, and that would provide an

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additional

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reference point or framework.

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So this would help me with my distance control, okay?

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So you can either use your body, you can use the club, or you can use objects

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on the

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ground, but you need some form of reference to control distance so that your

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constant

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gravity makes sense, okay?

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With this last key, you should have no trouble lag putting anywhere inside 40

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feet on the

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green.

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So give this a try, I've had it make a significant impact in people's ability

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to cut out three

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plots, but it's going to take a little bit of practice on the green, so go out

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and give

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it a try.