Video Analysis - General Stroke

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Welcome back golfers. Let's take a look at how to analyze your putting stroke

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on video.

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So a big part of being your own coach is learning how to assess yourself on

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video and putting

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is no different. Now when you're assessing yourself on video, you can either

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bias what

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you're looking at towards factors that influence start line or speed control.

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Green reading

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is kind of a separate skill that you won't really see on video. But in this

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video, we

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are going to look at more building your general stroke, so kind of the general

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themes that

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will help us with both start line and speed. So keep in the back of your mind

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that we

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are striving for this pizza wedge shape where basically there's a suspension

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point or an

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anchor point and the putter is moving around that anchor point with very little

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face rotation.

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So it either looks like the classic pendulum model or like a slice of pizza

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where the crust

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is going to be tracing or sorry where the putter head is going to be tracing

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the crust. Now

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I should say that the bottom of the swing is going to be before hitting the

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golf ball,

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so it's not 100% symmetric which is part of the other reason why it doesn't

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quite follow

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the pendulum model. But as a model, as a visual, I like the general shape of

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the slice of pizza

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just finishing a little bit higher. From the down the line, you'll see that

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that slice

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of pizza is on a slight angle due to the line angle of the club. Alright, when

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we look at

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video analysis for the general shape, we're primarily going to look at the face

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on and

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the down the line, but if we're really investigating start line control, which

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we'll do in another

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video, we're going to prioritize looking at an overhead. So I'll show you how

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to set

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up your tripod to make that pretty easy. From the face on view, we have the

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suspension

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point, we can look at the length of stroke. I actually recommend filming the

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video in

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regular speed, not high speed so that you can get a general sense of the

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acceleration rate.

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And then we're also looking for kind of how well you maintain the consistency

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of the triangle

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of the arms. And we can also look at the consistency in the location of ball

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position. From the

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down the line, we can look at the setup posture angles, those have a big

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influence on both

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start line as well as speed. We can look at alignment, we can look at the

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distance from

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the golf ball or the position of your eyes compared to the golf ball that can

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help. We

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can look at the amount of iron bend. And then when we dig into looking at the

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actual stroke,

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this is a great view for looking at some of the start line elements, looking at

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face rotation

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and looking at whether the torso is moving on more of a tilt or more of just a

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level turn.

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From the overhead, we're primarily going to be looking at what's happening with

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the putter

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itself. And we'll primarily be looking at the path of the club and the face

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rotation.

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Okay so we'll keep this in mind as we start looking at building the basic

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stroke, we're

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going to start by looking at the face on view. Now what I have drawn on here

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with Luke Donald

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or a couple of reference lines that we'll look at when we learn how to analyze

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our own video.

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But basically I've drawn a line up from the shaft at the top of the swing or at

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a dress

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position, top of the swing and finish. And what you'll see is that they all

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converge

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in a point above the golf ball or sorry in line with the golf ball or just in

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front of

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it. That's kind of what we mean by the pizza shape. And if we, I'm sure some

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people will

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submit their swings. But if you look at a lot of amateurs, what will happen is

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often times

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it's point one at the top of the swing might be pointing over here or over here

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. And then

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it impact is pointing here or back here. There's a lot of change going on. And

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there's not

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really one common suspension point. That's because you're doing it too much

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with your

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arms and hands and not enough with the big muscles. So to get this pizza shape,

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we want

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quiet legs, quiet wrists, not totally dead but quiet. As one of my buddies Stan

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Utley

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says, I want you to use your wrist but I don't want it to look wristy. So we

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want to have

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a little bit of feel there but we want very little motion of the wrist. We want

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limited

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arm extension as well. We want the majority of the stroke happening more up

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here in the

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shoulders and upper back. Okay so similar to what we did for the stock swing, I

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'm going

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to show you how to analyze the basic positions. Now with the putting stroke, we

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're pretty

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much going to look at setup, top of backswing impact finish and the timing of

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when your

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eyes track the golf ball. That's just kind of a little bonus one. But usually

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just set

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up top of the swing impact finish or the four main positions that you're going

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to look at

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when analyzing your putting stroke. So here it's setup. We can look at the

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spine angle

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or the spine bend. We can also break that down and look at the neck angle. I

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want the

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top of your neck with most conventional putting stroke styles unless you have a

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long putter.

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But with most conventional styles, you want the top of your neck getting close

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to parallel

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to the ground. We can look at the eye position being either over the golf ball

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or slightly

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inside of it. I'd say you have a window of somewhere whether it's on top to a

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few inches

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inside, maybe up to three, four inches inside. We want to look at the shaft to

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the forearm

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angle there. So that primarily comes down to your grip and ulnar deviation. And

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we want to look at the alignment or the forearms parallel, shoulders parallel,

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hips, thighs.

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Similar alignment structure is looking to see if you have any overt, either

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open or closed

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elements. We want to look at the knee bend and we want to look at the heel toe

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weight

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distribution either setting too much in the heels or the toes. But a good

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little reference

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line is if you drew a line down from the inside of the armpit, it should

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basically go through

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the tip of the elbow, the knees and the middle of the foot or the shoe laces.

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So that's kind

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of a good stacked stable position. And that kind of sets you up usually on a

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pretty good

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angle and distance from the golf ball. Oftentimes, if you are, if your eyes are

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too far over

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or too far inside, usually comes down to either knee bend, spine bend or arm

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bend. It's a

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little bit off. From the face on view, we can see kind of your arm triangle.

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Where are

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your elbows and your arms compared to your shoulders? I tend to prefer slightly

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inside,

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but there's some really good putters who go outside, shoulder or elbows outside

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of the

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shoulder line. Really just depends on how well you can keep that consistently

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the same.

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Ball position slightly ahead of the middle of your stance. And then weight

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looking, are

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you too much on your right foot or left foot or just looking at where that is?

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I prefer

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slightly on the left foot, but that's not 100%. There's some really good put

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ters who

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tend to have a little bit more weight on that rear foot. Okay, top of backswing

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position

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you'll see that I added a second vertical line. Now we have an idea of where my

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suspension

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point hopefully is when we look at the follow through position. From the face

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on, this is

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a great place for looking at face, sorry, length of backswing. But you can also

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look

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at the club face angle. So from the face on camera, we don't want to see a

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whole lot

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of the putter face, depending on the length of the swing. That usually means

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that there's

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some independent rotation either of the arms, or the shoulders are turning a

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little bit

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too flat. We can also start to see that the shoulders rotate, did the elbows

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straighten,

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did the wrist start to flip, and we can start to look for sway. We can look for

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too much

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lateral motion versus more of a turn and tilt. The down the line is probably a

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better

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view at the top of the swing for looking at club face angle, but the overhead

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is by far

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the best. So this can give you a quick snapshot if you're having some face

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control issues.

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You can see is, was it more of a backswing movement or more of a downswing

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movement.

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We can also look at the shoulder tilt versus turn here. Looking basically to

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see are the

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shoulders turning more on and axis down towards the golf ball, or are they

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turning more level.

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Potentially you could even have them working vertical, though I haven't seen

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that as too

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much of a problem. Usually it's the turning to level that causes some major

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face control

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issues. Depending on where you set up the camera, the putter shaft, if it moves

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in that

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straight line, the putter head will come up off the ground, but it will stay in

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line

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with that line you drew at set up, the forearm, the shaft plane. This is a

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great place for

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looking to make sure that we haven't had any hip rotation. So we don't want to

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have probably

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anything below the belly button or below the hips moving in the putting stroke.

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This is

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usually that first checkpoint to look for. Now if we come back to impact, it's

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going

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to look very similar to set up. Oftentimes the shaft is just a little bit

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forward or

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close to the same depending on the shaft position that you started with. If you

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set with it

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a little bit more back, you might be forward and you set with it way forward.

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But it will

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be relatively close. This is another good little mini checkpoint for looking at

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Swaver's

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turn. This is a great time for look for, especially rotations of the shoulder

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or straightening

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in the arms or flipping of the wrist. If you are going to use some active wrist

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motion

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on the video, you want it to appear mostly during transition. You want to have

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relatively

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stable or quiet wrist and shoulders through the ball and more of the rotation

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happening

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more at the shoulder blades and the upper back and ribs. So when we do, when we

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look

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at the start line video, we'll talk more about how to assess kind of the club

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face angle

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here. But this is a good place to look at why did the ball start where it did.

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The overwhelming

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majority of where the ball starts is comes down to club face angle. So looking

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at impact,

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you can see if the club is closed, it'll start left. If it's open, it'll start

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right.

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But the path has a big influence on how you're going to be able to control the

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face. We can

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also look for the shoulder tilt and again the hip rotation. So a couple little

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checkpoints

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there. This is probably from the global look at the swing. This is probably the

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least important.

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But if you do some of the zoomed in ways of assessing your face control, then

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looking

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at impact, especially from the down the line, can be really useful. Okay. Now

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we jump to

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the finish or the follow through position. There's a lot of great information

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if you

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just look at the top of the swing and the finish. We can look here at the

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finish position

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and again, that we're following the shafts and creating this kind of stable

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suspension

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point somewhere up around the bottom of your rib cage. Looking at the club

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height and finish.

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A lot of bad putters tend to keep the club head low to the ground too long. If

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that happens,

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that usually means that I have more of a lengthening movement, more of a lung

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ing type movement,

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or more of a level shoulder short, or a combination of all three. That can

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create some really hard

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timing issues for face and path. You can also look from the face on view at the

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club face

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angle. But again, that's easiest to see from overhead or from the down the line

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. This is

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a great place for looking at shoulder rotation. You can also look at the arm

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spacing. I actually

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prefer to see that arm even a little bit closer as we'll look at some pros. I

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might have gotten

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a little sloppy here over the last six months or so, not really doing a whole

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lot of putting

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practice. It looks like I'm getting a little bit wider with my arms than normal

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, so that's

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the elbow spacing. You'll notice the putter is this far by and my eyes are

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still looking

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down. That is looking at more the timing of the quiet eye. In theory, I don't

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really care

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if your eyes track the golf ball, but I want them to stay quiet until contact.

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I like most

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of my students to train that they stay quiet and then look once the footer or

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once the stroke

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is finished. We'll see that with Tiger in some of his videos as well. From here

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, this

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is a great place for looking at the shoulder turn versus tilt. Is the shoulder

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working

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more down the plane or is it turning more level and you'll have any hip

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rotation, any kind

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of little hit and chase move. The other thing that's really useful that I don't

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have listed

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here, but we'll talk about in the speed control, is looking at the length of

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backswing compared

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to follow through and roughly seeing those about the same. That can help

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tremendously

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with speed control. From face on, the big keys you're going to look at are

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length of backswing

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compared to follow through. The height of the putter as it comes into the ball

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compared

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to after the ball. I want to see it higher in the follow through. The shoulder

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turn versus

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tilt, so whether the shoulders are turning this way. The arm extension or

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rotation or

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lack thereof, we want to see basically the arm consistency staying the same.

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Then we want

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to see the timing of when your eyes follow the golf ball or head rotation.

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Here's a dynamic look at the stroke that we've been looking at in this

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presentation.

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When I videotape a putting stroke, I'm going to scan through a couple big areas

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. We want

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to look at the arm structure. Looking at the arm bend, we can see maybe just

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the increase

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of that lean arm or moving that shoulder on the way through. We can look at the

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pivot

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location. Is most of the movement happening here in the shoulder girdle or is

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it happening

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more down in the lower body? Lower body looks pretty good here. We can look at

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the length

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of the stroke as well as the overall acceleration. I like the appearance that

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the putter is moving

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at a constant speed the whole time. There's no rapid acceleration or deceler

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ation. Then

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we can look at the face location. We can look at the club head to see if we

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break it down

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to the top of the swing. Is the putter really facing the camera or has there

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been minimal

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rotation? Then same thing in the follow through. Looking at a rough idea of if

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the face is

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rotating on the way through. We can also look at the height of the putter,

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making sure that

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the putter is slightly coming up through the stroke. Lastly, we can look at the

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timing

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of the head rotation. I like to see golfers finish their stroke before their

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eyes start

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to track the golf ball. In reality, if the eyes start tracking now as I'm

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hitting the

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golf ball, it's not going to be a big deal. But oftentimes they'll start

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tracking sooner,

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causing the shoulders to get open, which can cause either pulls or pushes

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depending on

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what the release style or the way that you're using your arms in the funny

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strip.

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From the down the line, we're looking primarily at more of a control element. I

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would probably

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look at lower body stability first, even with listed seconds. Hip rotation,

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knee rotation,

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making sure that from belly button down there's very little change between top

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of backswing and

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follow through. Looking at the shoulder plane or tilt versus turn, this is a

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great place to see

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if the shoulder is working down versus turning more level. Then looking at the

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control elements,

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looking at the swing path. The path and face, I should say. Looking at the down

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the line is the

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putter face going way open, as the path going outside in, too much inside. This

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gives you a lot

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of good diagnostic information to see what am I going to experiment with when I

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'm trying to

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fine-tune my drills or fine-tune my arm motions. If my lower body's stable and

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this is moving in

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a good path, then anything related to the putter face and the putter path are

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primarily coming down

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to arm overactivity or your arm movement pattern.

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Okay, so now if we're looking from the down the line, we're still going to kind

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of scan the overall

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putting stroke. We'll have a few fewer things to look at than say the face on

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view. First,

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I like to look at the pivot and the lower body stability, and I like to look at

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the torso angle

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or the angle that the shoulders are working. I want them working more down at

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the golf ball as

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opposed to the shoulder working horizontally across the screen. Then I'm going

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to look at the quality

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of the roll if I use the line and overall the general shape of the stroke. Is

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the putter coming

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well out and across? Is it coming too far in and out or in and in? It can often

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happen.

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It's better when it's more symmetric. I like to see a gentle stroke. In my mind

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, I'm imagining

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a vertical line and you can see that there's just a little bit of curve on the

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way in and then a

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little bit of curve on the way out. We can look at the putter face to see if it

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's twisting on the way

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through. You can see that it stays relatively square on this putt. Then lastly,

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looking at the

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height of the putter coming up as opposed to staying low to the ground too long

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in the follow-through.

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You can also look at the timing of when the eyes look, when the head rotates.

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That can be

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helpful, especially if you're missing a lot of your short putts. Let's briefly

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look at some pros.

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You've seen my swing, but these are the guys we really want to learn from. We

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'll look at some

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of my favorite strokes. We've got Luke Donald first. If you were just looking

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at one position,

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I think this is the most important to look at, but if you're comparing top of

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the swing and finish,

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you get a lot of information. You can look at the height of the putter, the

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amount of face rotation,

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and maintaining that arm triangle, all those classic positions. You can see

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very little knee

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rotation, very little wrist change, and just scanning across the pictures, you

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'll see most of

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the movement happening in this band of the body right there. Now, Jordan Smith,

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I included in here

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because he's got a little more of a forward press because of that left-hand low

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.

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His suspension point is more in line closer to the left shoulder instead of in

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the belly button,

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but if you look at where the shaft is pointing, it's pretty much pointing in

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the same position

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at all times. Remember, when most of you look at your putting stroke, you're

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going to tend to see

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either it pointing. You're not going to see those lines converge. You're going

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to see them pointing

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oftentimes in different positions, and that usually comes down to either the

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stableness of the pivot or the quality of the arm movements. So he still gets

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the putter rising,

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he still gets the kind of classic pizza shape, still has lower body stability,

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all those good

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things. He's just shifted a little bit forward because of the grip. Now, he has

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to potentially

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adjust loft and other things or ball position, but he's still got all the big

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pieces in play for

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being a really consistent putter. Now, we've got Steve Stricker, so another

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really good classic

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looking putting stroke. He actually, we'll see from the down the line, tends to

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stand a little

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bit taller. If you have any back issues that get really aggravated from getting

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into a 40-degree

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angle or a classic putting stroke, he's a good one to emulate where he's a

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little bit taller and

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has a little bit more exaggerated ulnar deviation, but still gets all the

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classic pieces. Love this

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follow through. Putter has good rise there. No change in the wrist angles. Very

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good for rolling

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the ball consistently. And then with Tiger here, you can scan the pictures, and

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you'll notice I

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included an extra one here where you can see how long he keeps his eyes down,

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especially when he's

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training or practicing. So the hat pretty much doesn't change through there,

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and then once

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he gets to about this point, then he looks to see where the putter is going.

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But that can train

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kind of the quiet eye. I think that's part of the reason that he's been so

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successful with pressure

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putts. If you have a tendency to look really quickly, that can creep into

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looking before

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you hit the ball, and that can often create some shoulder plane or arm

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extension issues.

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Okay, from the down the line, I think there are fewer things to look at, but

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looking at the amount

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of lower body rotation. And then this is a good place for looking at the angle

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of the shoulder

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turn versus tilt. So you can see here in the follow through, I have that frame

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out of order,

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but you can see here in the follow through there, the shoulder is working more

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down instead of around.

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A lot of you, when you see yourself on video, that shoulder is going to be

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working more out

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that way instead of down towards the golf ball, and that can be a big source of

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putter face control

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issues. You can also see just that classic setup where he gets in a really good

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position where the

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armpit elbow, knees, and middle defeat are kind of in line, and the putter

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shaft is in a really

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good angle. For a long time, when he was the number one player in the world, he

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was by far

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the best putter. So he's a good one to emulate. Here's Steve Sturker, who we

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talked about being

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a little bit taller, a little bit more wrist kind of set in more max ulnar

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deviation, which can help

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block out. He still gets, even though he has that ulnar deviation, he still

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gets really good

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tilt and the rise of the putter on the way through with very little face

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rotation. In fact, you can

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see the height of the putter there to there. He has quite what appears to be a

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significant rise angle,

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but overall, all the big pieces in play. Now, Tiger classically from the down

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the line

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doesn't have the shaft and the forearms in line, so that creates, he has a

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little bit more face

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rotation than the average pro. He's talked about when he puts well that he

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feels a release and he

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feels the putter, the toe of the putter kind of release. That's partly why,

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just because of that

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setup position. But again, this is right around the frame where his head starts

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to rotate and

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he starts to look at the golf ball. So training that quiet eye, I think that's

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one way to get

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more resilient under pressure. Okay, and then just being able to kind of see

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the swing in 3D,

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it's helpful to look at the start, the down the line as well as the face on

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kind of simultaneously.

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So you can see the the global changes. You'll see mostly shoulder movement, not

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a lot of arm

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change, but everything works a little bit up the plane. And then really on the

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follow through,

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I think this is one of the best positions to analyze when you're looking at the

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general theme

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of your stroke. Keeping the keeping the arm triangle while still getting more

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tilt to get that putter

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rising. I usually use that as kind of like the simple mantra for building your

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overall general

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stroke. So here we have Steve Stricker. You can scan through. He's doing the

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similar things.

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And we added the extra frame for tiger for when his head looks. But you can see

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how high on this

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length of a stroke the putter is in the follow through. That comes from having

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the more dominant

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engine happening here in the body. Kind of like that rather than if the putter

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stays really low,

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it's a good sign that you're getting some lengthening happening from those arms

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. So knowing what to

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look for and knowing how to analyze your putting stroke is one of the key steps

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for being able

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to become your own coach. So I recommend putting yourself on video and looking

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at it, compare it,

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and this will help shape which drills will be most applicable for you. In some

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subsequent videos,

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we will take a look at prioritizing your stroke based on start line or speed

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control.