Putting Track

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This drill is grooving your stroke with a putting track.

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So this is a really simple device for helping you keep the shape of the pizza

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straight.

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So when you're doing your stroke, remember one of the things that we're really

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trying

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to avoid is artificially turning that pizza.

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So in order to do that, I'm going to have more of a stroke that travels in a

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straight

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back and forth direction.

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So what I have here is just a PVC pipe that's elevated so that I can have my

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golf ball down

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on the ground.

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And it takes a little practice just kind of figuring out the correct distance.

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You want to get the putter so that it's sitting flat and up against the stick.

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So the sole is flat there and it's up against the PVC pipe.

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And now if I, you know, just for fun, I won't even take a really conventional

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grip.

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If I just let the putter slide back and forth, I don't think I have this aimed

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high enough,

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let's tweak that a little bit just for the effect.

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Okay.

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So if I put it back close to the same spot, so putter sold, all I'm going to do

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is keep

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the putter face square and let the putter slide back and forth.

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As long as I don't twist the face, this is going to help me build this kind of

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straight

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pizza stroke.

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For some people, they feel very restricted on the backswing because they want

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to pull

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the putter in or cut it outside so it will go like that.

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And then other people will feel it more want to slam into the stick on the way

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through.

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Or occasionally you'll have golfers who kind of excessively move outside, but

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the most

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common would be pulling it excessively in on the way through.

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So I'm going to take my grip, try to focus on my feeling of the suspension

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point, kind

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of getting it to rock back and forth and I still don't have it aimed high

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enough, but

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we'll just go with it.

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Once I have a feel of this rocking motion with the putter, that was a little

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bit better

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face control, still low.

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Once I have a feel of the stroke following this straight path, then what I'm

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going to

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do is I'm going to move the golf ball so that my putter is just off of it.

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So half an inch fingers width, something like that.

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And now I'm going to try and make the same stroke.

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And just from moving further forward, it was able to be high enough.

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But I'm going to try to make the same stroke where it matches the stick without

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actually

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hitting it.

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If you are, if you tend to pull the path or artificially kind of twist the

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pizza, when

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you bring it off, you will probably ram into the stick on one side of the other

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.

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So this is really helpful for training the path of the grip or the shaft.

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Now what you'll see from the overhead view is that as I make this stroke, or

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what we'll

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see from the down line view, is as the putter comes up, it also comes in as it

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goes down,

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it comes out, and then as it comes up, it comes in.

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So there is a little bit of arcing to the stroke, but that's simply because it

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's following

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a suspension point, and as it comes up, the distance comes in.

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It's not that I'm artificially creating some arc and pulling the putter in on

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either side.

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I'm trying to rock my shoulders and swing the putter straight, and the stick is

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giving

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me really good feedback for training that stroke.

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Okay, from the overhead view, you'll see the slight arcing of the putter coming

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in, and

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then the slight arcing of the putter coming in on the follow through side.

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So one more time, putter just following stick just like that.