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Alignment Stick Stability - Putting
One of the core principles of consistent putters is having a stable lower body. Most of the drills I use focus on the feet, but this is a great one for feeling a quiet hip action throughout the whole swing.
One of the core principles of consistent putters is having a stable lower body. Most of the drills I use focus on the feet, but this is a great one for feeling a quiet hip action throughout the whole swing.
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This drill is using an alignment stick for lower body stability.
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So one of the ten insup really good putters is very little to no movement from the belly
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button down.
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So for those who are a little bit more visual, you can't quite feel if your lower body
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is moving.
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I use this drill a lot.
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I'm going to take an alignment stick and place it through the belt loops.
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I've got a stick on the ground just to help my visual awareness.
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So now I'm going to get into my normal setup position.
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And my goal is to make a stroke and then I'm going to check to make sure that the stick
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stayed parallel to the stick on the ground.
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What I commonly see and I'm not going to the whole, I tend to do this on two different
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length putts.
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I'll tend to do this on longer putts and I'll tend to do this on really short putts.
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Some golfers use too much hips for speed.
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So they do kind of a shorter stroke and then they'll turn their whole body kind of like
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this.
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Usually you have more of a pronounced follow through like that.
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So that will be more of a speed issue.
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And that's where I want to get comfortable making a really big stroke and having minimal
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lower body movement.
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The other one is it's more of a rhythm thing.
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So on short putts golfers will tend to get set up and then it's just kind of a sloppiness
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where the lower body is helping create the rhythm of bringing the hands through.
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Instead of doing it more from the shoulder blades, the shoulder girdle and the ribs.
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So for those I will try to do more of a short stroke and focus on the finished position
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where I'm really getting myself kind of feeling that my upper body is almost turned
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past my lower body as opposed to my upper body and my lower body turning together.
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I may also feel that my shoulders have turned more down on a plane closer to at the golf
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ball as opposed to turning more level.
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So if you are analyzing your putting stroke and you're seeing on video a lot of knee and
00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000
lower body action, this is a really simple but powerfully effective drill for helping
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quiet down your lower body.
This drill is using an alignment stick for lower body stability.
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
So one of the ten insup really good putters is very little to no movement from the belly
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,000
button down.
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000
So for those who are a little bit more visual, you can't quite feel if your lower body
00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,000
is moving.
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000
I use this drill a lot.
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000
I'm going to take an alignment stick and place it through the belt loops.
00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000
I've got a stick on the ground just to help my visual awareness.
00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,000
So now I'm going to get into my normal setup position.
00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:43,000
And my goal is to make a stroke and then I'm going to check to make sure that the stick
00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000
stayed parallel to the stick on the ground.
00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,000
What I commonly see and I'm not going to the whole, I tend to do this on two different
00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000
length putts.
00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000
I'll tend to do this on longer putts and I'll tend to do this on really short putts.
00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000
Some golfers use too much hips for speed.
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000
So they do kind of a shorter stroke and then they'll turn their whole body kind of like
00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000
this.
00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000
Usually you have more of a pronounced follow through like that.
00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000
So that will be more of a speed issue.
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:23,000
And that's where I want to get comfortable making a really big stroke and having minimal
00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000
lower body movement.
00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000
The other one is it's more of a rhythm thing.
00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:34,000
So on short putts golfers will tend to get set up and then it's just kind of a sloppiness
00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000
where the lower body is helping create the rhythm of bringing the hands through.
00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,000
Instead of doing it more from the shoulder blades, the shoulder girdle and the ribs.
00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:50,000
So for those I will try to do more of a short stroke and focus on the finished position
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,000
where I'm really getting myself kind of feeling that my upper body is almost turned
00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000
past my lower body as opposed to my upper body and my lower body turning together.
00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:08,000
I may also feel that my shoulders have turned more down on a plane closer to at the golf
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000
ball as opposed to turning more level.
00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000
So if you are analyzing your putting stroke and you're seeing on video a lot of knee and
00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000
lower body action, this is a really simple but powerfully effective drill for helping
00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000
quiet down your lower body.
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