Putting Stroke Overview

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In this putting video, we're going to cover the general stroke.

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So we're going to cover the three big kind of requirements for creating your

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basic stroke.

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In the subsequent sections, we'll dig into some more details, but in this

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section, we're

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going to cover the basic grip, the basic posture, and then the basic stroke or

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the basic engine.

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So keep in mind that our model from the overview video is we are basically

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trying to create

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some type of pendulum type stroke where the putter is basically going to follow

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an arc

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down at the bottom of the swing where it's traveling in a straight line.

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In order to do that, we're going to establish a grip where we keep the putter

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face from

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twisting a lot, and we keep it from flipping within the pizza or changing angle

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within

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the pizza.

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So basically, your arms and the putter are going to move as one unit.

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The suspension point is going to be kind of towards the mid upper part of your

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spine,

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kind of somewhere behind belly button to kind of upper ribcage.

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And I'm going to use an engine where I'm going to use more of the shoulder

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blades and the

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upper ribs to move my arms to bring the putter through.

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So when I'm taking, we'll work through these pieces kind of one at a time.

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So with the basic grip, the main goal here is that I'm going to have the grip

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somewhere

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in the palm so that the grip is close to in line with my forearm, as you can

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see from

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down the line.

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So if I take a grip where I'm holding it in the palms, in the lifelines, and

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the putter

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shaft is kind of midway through my forearms just like this, I'll see a straight

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line from

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the down the line view from my elbow through my hand all the way down into the

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club.

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That's going to fit with creating this kind of straight slice of pizza model,

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where if

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I gripped it more in the fingers, you can see that there's a big angle there.

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If I grip with the angle, then I'm going to tend to have more putter face

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rotation, so

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it's going to be harder to control the direction or start line.

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So I'm gripping more or less in the palms, I'll have a video where we go

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through more

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of the details of how to grip it, but I'm gripping more or less in the palms so

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that

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it's going through my forearms just like that.

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Now I've got my elbows bent slightly so that, let's say, this is pointing just

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above my

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belly button like this, and then I'm going to hinge at my hips until the putter

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is resting

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on the ground and I'm going to bend my knees slightly.

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When I get down into my kind of posture down at the bottom, I want to have my

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shoulders

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hips and forearms pretty parallel to my intended start line, which is the stick

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here on the

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ground, and vertically, I want to be in a pretty good balance, so what I want

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to have

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is if I had a plumb line, basically going from my armpit straight down, that's

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going

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to go through roughly my elbow, my knee, the center of my foot, kind of like

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this.

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If I do that, then when I position my eyes, they're going to be just over close

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to in-line

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with the golf ball, maybe slightly in, into on top of, you don't want your eyes

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to get

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too far out over the golf ball.

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That can also affect how you see the line, so we'll run through that one more

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time, got

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gripping the palms, arms are just kind of resting on my rib cage like this, I'm

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going

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to bend from my hips, and then I'm going to bend my knees and bring my head

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down just

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a little bit so that I've got that slice of pizza kind of pointing, like I said

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at the

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front of my spine, somewhere between the belly button and the kind of middle of

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the rib cage.

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So now, that's my setup posture.

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The engine of the swing is mostly going to be a tilting or movement of the

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shoulder blades,

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kind of more like this.

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I don't want to have any real hip action, so I'm going to try and keep my lower

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body

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quiet, and I don't want to have any real wrist action, and I don't want to have

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a lot

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of shoulder rotation, or I don't want to have any shoulder rotation.

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So I'm going to, I'm going to more or less quiet down a lot of happening, what

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's happening

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in my arms, I'm going to quiet down what's happening in my hips, and the engine

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of the

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stroke is more or less going to be in this part of the body, but it's not going

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to be

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a pure rotation, it's going to be more of a tilting action because of how close

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I'm going

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to be set up to the golf ball.

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So as a rough reference for grip, we're in the palms, we'll go through more

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details

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of that in a separate video.

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With the setup posture, we're kind of balanced and on top of the golf ball with

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some arm

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bend so that I can help control my shoulders, and then ball position, we're

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going to have

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the ball slightly ahead of the bottom of your stroke, so for some golfers, that

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depends

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a little bit on kind of some of your tilts and angles, but the ball position is

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going

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to be slightly ahead of center or slightly ahead of the bottom of your stroke.

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And distance wise, a good general guide is about two putter head widths, or if

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you got

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into your good posture, if you were to hang a plumb line from your eyes, it

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would be either

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on top of it or more likely just a little bit inside of the golf ball.

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So then, once we're in this posture, then all we have to do is we're going to

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move the

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shoulder blades and the arms in a connected unit with a rhythm to it that moves

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very much,

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hopefully, like a pendulum on the way down, kind of hitting it more or less

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with deadweight.

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So we'll go over how to aim and where to aim in the subsequent videos, but for

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right

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now we're just going to cover getting into this setup posture and then making

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the stroke

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with the shoulder blades.

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So I've taken the grip where it's in the palm, and I've got it, the posture and

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ball

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position all figured out, and now I'm just going to rock those shoulder blades,

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hopefully

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starting it at the tee, and I just hit that a little too hard for this breaking

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putt,

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so it rolled a little bit high.

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What you'll see is when you're practicing breaking putts require better speed

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control,

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so oftentimes when we start practice putting, we will start with straighter put

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ts and then

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work our way to breaking putts, but if we walk through that process again, we

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're all

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set up, just slightly ahead, a little bit softer speed, almost came down, so I

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put my

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tee maybe just the touch high, because that speed was pretty good and it didn't

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make it

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all the way down to the hole.

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But for the purpose of this video, we're trying to build the basic stroke, so

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we've got your

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grip, your posture, your ball position, and then the basic engine.

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In the other videos, we will go through more of the details of how you're going

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to refine

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this and dial in your start line, dial in your speed control, and then layer in

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green

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reading.