Meter Stick Distance Control

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This drill is meter stick distance control so in one of the other videos I

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talk about kind of measuring the length of the backswing. This is an easy way

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for

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me to work especially with juniors on a basic stroke of kind of matching the

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length of backswing and follow through so helping with tempo and acceleration

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rates. Some golfers love this and can visualize it other golfers hate it

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because

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they can't really feel it but basically I've got this blue line here will be

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the

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center of the swing so that's basically where I'm gonna have my putter head so

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the ball position would be just on the edge of that blue line right about there

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and then I've got red line to red line I've got green line to green line I've

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got

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white line to white line and end to end or I'll say yellow to yellow and so

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what

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we're gonna do is we're gonna practice making some strokes where it's the same

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length back and through or approximately the same length back and through. Now

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you can combo this with any technical drill if you're working on the elbows or

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the wrists or the pivot or a posture you can combo this skill with any of those

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techniques so this is a meter stick and basically I put the the blue tape at

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the

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18 inches which is half of the meter stick and then the pieces of tape are

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roughly at six inch intervals so or these looks like this was an earlier

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model where I did four inches but you can break it up as long as they're even

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on

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both sides I've seen I've done three four six doesn't really matter just

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depends

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how many different iterations you want to have so the goal is then if I do my

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red putt that was a little bit past red and I do that let's say three times in

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a row so red to red that was a little bit faster I these should all go about

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the same distance so for red to red good so these should go about the same

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distance if I'm taking it back the same distance and having a constant

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acceleration and what you'll start to see is if you change your alignment each

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time the the distance actually grows it's not like even gaps or linear gaps

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it's more exponential so red in this case might go three or four feet now I'll

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aim a little bit to the right of that and I'll do green to green or I'll hit

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it square so if I do green to green you'll see that that would have gone

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probably you know more than twice as far even though it was twice the twice the

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distance and now if I aim this bit to the left and I go white to white that was

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a

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little bit bigger than white that would go more than twice the distance so it

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grows exponentially and we get to a point where I'm doing we'll see if we can

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split the distance so if I do the end of it if I do yellow to yellow not quite

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you'll see that this is going to cover probably a good 40 foot pace putt or

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sorry 40-40 pace putt or more potentially more so this also gets me into

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practicing

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a little bit more of these bigger strokes which many golfers who are

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struggling with their distance control tend to only take the putter back to a

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certain distance and don't really have an upper limit this can help you feel

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much more comfortable and help you dial in your distance control so you can

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practice with this or something similar tees balls but something to help you

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basically measure and visually quantify the amount and the size of backswing

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will help you figure out how backswing and tempo are the two main factors for

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controlling your distance