Lower Body Stability with Alignment Stick

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This drill is using an alignment stick for lower body stability.

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So one of the tenants of really good putters is very little to no movement from

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the belly

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button down.

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So for those who are a little bit more visual, like you can't quite feel if

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your lower body

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is moving, I use this drill a lot, or I'm going to take an alignment stick and

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place

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it through the belt loops.

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I've got a stick on the ground just to help my visual awareness.

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So now I'm going to get into my normal setup position.

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And my goal is to make a stroke and then I'm going to check to make sure that

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the stick

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stayed parallel to the stick on the ground.

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What I commonly see, and I'm not going to the hole, I tend to do this on two

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different

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length putts, I'll tend to do this on longer putts, and I'll tend to do this on

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really

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short putts.

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Some golfers use too much hips for speed, so they do kind of a shorter stroke,

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and then

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they'll turn their whole body kind of like this, usually have a more of a

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pronounced

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follow through like that.

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So that will be more of a speed issue, and that's where I want to get

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comfortable making

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a really big stroke and having minimal lower body movement.

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The other one is it's more of a rhythm thing, so on short putts, golfers will

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tend to get

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set up, and then it's just kind of a sloppiness where the lower body is helping

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create the

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rhythm of bringing the hands through, instead of doing it more from the

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shoulder blades,

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the shoulder girdle, and the ribs.

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So for those, I will try to do more of a short stroke and focus on the finish

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position where

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I'm really getting myself kind of feeling that my upper body has almost turned

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past

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my lower body as opposed to my upper body and my lower body turning together.

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I may also feel that my shoulders have turned more down on a plane closer to at

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the golf

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ball as opposed to turning more level.

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So if you are analyzing your putting stroke and you're seeing on video a lot of

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knee and

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lower body action, this is a really simple but powerfully effective drill for

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helping

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quiet down your lower body.