Putter Drop Catch

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Mr. L is the putter drop catch.

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So this is a way to work on your rhythm and your tempo and your feeling of the

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pendulum

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swing or what I call with a lot of students are wrecking ball.

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So one of the goals for consistent tempo is to have the mass of the putter head

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or the

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weight of the putter head causing the acceleration not you forcibly moving the

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club.

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And so oftentimes golfers are really unaware that they are hitting it or

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forcing it with

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their arms and their body.

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So I'll do this little drill what will do a drop catch.

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So I'm going to take the putter and I'm going to toss it lightly up in the air.

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And my goal is I'm going to match the weight of the putter as it's falling.

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So my arms are dropping with the putter so that there feels like there's

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basically no

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impact.

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So this is my arms falling at the speed of the putter.

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Now I'm going to try to apply that feel to a stroke.

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I'm going to bring it back and right through there I'm going to try and match

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the speed

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of the putter falling.

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Now one of the key things here is here you can notice I'm not doing a lot with

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my wrist.

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I'm not just doing it like that.

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I'm using my whole arms.

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Same thing here.

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I want to match the speed with my shoulders and my arms not with my wrist.

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This would be matching the speed with my wrist where my body didn't do anything

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.

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This would be matching the speed with my wrist with my body turning.

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It'll still look flippy and I'm going to tend to have some face control issues

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if I do that.

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But if I match it with my arms while my wrist stay a little bit more firm then

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I'm going

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to tend, oh that was a good putter, I'm going to tend to have a really repeat

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able acceleration

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pattern.

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Then if I need to hit the ball further all I have to do is take a bigger swing

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but I'm

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not going to change that acceleration.

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I'm just going to match it longer so here's the short putt and then here's the

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long putt.

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I'm just matching it from the top of the swing all the way down to impact.

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This can be really good for feel base golfers for learning this more rhythmic

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or pendulum

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type acceleration pattern.

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This can help a lot with your distance control but it can also help with the

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face control

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on the short putts because when you accelerate it you'll tend to cause a little

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bit of face

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rotation and that can cause you to miss some of your shorter putts.