Arm Connection - Putting
Arm connection - set up at waist height with arms on rib cage and practice strokes at this height - this will give you a better feeling of swinging the club with your big muscles rather than your arms and hands. Start by resting your upper arms on your rib cage so that your arms are soft but connected to your body. Keeping minimal tension in your arms, rotate your upper body back and forth. As you get a feeling for the muscles in- involved in this movement, lower your arms by bending at the hips. Make sure to keep the connection between your upper arms and your ribs. You should feel the same muscles working when you are standing tall as when you are bent in your normal set up posture.
Arm connection - set up at waist height with arms on rib cage and practice strokes at this height - this will give you a better feeling of swinging the club with your big muscles rather than your arms and hands. Start by resting your upper arms on your rib cage so that your arms are soft but connected to your body. Keeping minimal tension in your arms, rotate your upper body back and forth. As you get a feeling for the muscles in- involved in this movement, lower your arms by bending at the hips. Make sure to keep the connection between your upper arms and your ribs. You should feel the same muscles working when you are standing tall as when you are bent in your normal set up posture.
Video Transcript
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Okay, the first drill for building a proper putter face and putter path control
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, I call
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finding the right connection or finding connection between your body and the
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club.
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So one of the biggest problems that I see is that most amateurs tend to putt
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with just
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their arm and shoulder muscles or so they just kind of swing their arms and
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everything
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else moves around.
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What we want to do is we want the rotation to actually occur more or less in
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the middle
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of your body or sorry in the middle of your rib cage, right?
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So kind of above the belly button, below the neck, right in there, that's where
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we want
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most of the movement to come from.
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So one way to figure this out is if you hold the putter up and you just let
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your forearms
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or you just let your elbows kind of rest on your rib cage, if you were to
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rotate in this
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position flexing your knees so that you can keep your lower body stable, you'll
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feel a
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lot more of your kind of upper and mid back and you'll feel a lot more of your
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abdominals
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working.
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And the reason for this is because the weight is so far away from me I have to
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use the big
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muscles to control it where in the golf swing, because the putter is so close
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to my center
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when I'm turning, I don't need to use these big muscles, I can just rely on my
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small muscles
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and my arms and shoulders but that's not very efficient for building a proper
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art.
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So again, one way, just kind of rest those forearms there and as you rotate
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back and
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forth, you'll start to get a feeling of what it's like to have the larger
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muscles control
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the putting stroke and then you can slowly work your way down until the putter
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is resting
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on the ground trying to feel the same movement and the same muscles controlling
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the stroke.
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So I call that one arms connection, give it a try, it'll help you feel which
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muscles
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should control the majority of your putting stroke.
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Arm connection - set up at waist height with arms on rib cage and practice strokes at this height - this will give you a better feeling of swinging the club with your big muscles rather than your arms and hands. Start by resting your upper arms on your rib cage so that your arms are soft but connected to your body. Keeping minimal tension in your arms, rotate your upper body back and forth. As you get a feeling for the muscles in- involved in this movement, lower your arms by bending at the hips. Make sure to keep the connection between your upper arms and your ribs. You should feel the same muscles working when you are standing tall as when you are bent in your normal set up posture.
Arm connection - set up at waist height with arms on rib cage and practice strokes at this height - this will give you a better feeling of swinging the club with your big muscles rather than your arms and hands. Start by resting your upper arms on your rib cage so that your arms are soft but connected to your body. Keeping minimal tension in your arms, rotate your upper body back and forth. As you get a feeling for the muscles in- involved in this movement, lower your arms by bending at the hips. Make sure to keep the connection between your upper arms and your ribs. You should feel the same muscles working when you are standing tall as when you are bent in your normal set up posture.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000
Okay, the first drill for building a proper putter face and putter path control
2
00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:07.120
, I call
3
00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.020
finding the right connection or finding connection between your body and the
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00:00:11.020 --> 00:00:11.460
club.
5
00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:15.200
So one of the biggest problems that I see is that most amateurs tend to putt
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00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:15.800
with just
7
00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:19.850
their arm and shoulder muscles or so they just kind of swing their arms and
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00:00:19.850 --> 00:00:20.480
everything
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00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.280
else moves around.
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00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:25.900
What we want to do is we want the rotation to actually occur more or less in
11
00:00:25.900 --> 00:00:26.560
the middle
12
00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:30.240
of your body or sorry in the middle of your rib cage, right?
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00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:33.200
So kind of above the belly button, below the neck, right in there, that's where
14
00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:33.540
we want
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00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:35.560
most of the movement to come from.
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00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:40.580
So one way to figure this out is if you hold the putter up and you just let
17
00:00:40.580 --> 00:00:41.740
your forearms
18
00:00:41.740 --> 00:00:46.070
or you just let your elbows kind of rest on your rib cage, if you were to
19
00:00:46.070 --> 00:00:46.960
rotate in this
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00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.520
position flexing your knees so that you can keep your lower body stable, you'll
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00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:52.000
feel a
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00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.920
lot more of your kind of upper and mid back and you'll feel a lot more of your
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00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:56.640
abdominals
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00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:57.640
working.
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And the reason for this is because the weight is so far away from me I have to
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use the big
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00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:05.600
muscles to control it where in the golf swing, because the putter is so close
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00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:06.360
to my center
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00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.970
when I'm turning, I don't need to use these big muscles, I can just rely on my
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00:01:10.970 --> 00:01:11.880
small muscles
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00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:15.670
and my arms and shoulders but that's not very efficient for building a proper
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00:01:15.670 --> 00:01:16.080
art.
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00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:22.190
So again, one way, just kind of rest those forearms there and as you rotate
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00:01:22.190 --> 00:01:22.980
back and
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00:01:22.980 --> 00:01:28.380
forth, you'll start to get a feeling of what it's like to have the larger
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00:01:28.380 --> 00:01:29.320
muscles control
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00:01:29.320 --> 00:01:35.430
the putting stroke and then you can slowly work your way down until the putter
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is resting
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on the ground trying to feel the same movement and the same muscles controlling
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00:01:40.420 --> 00:01:41.240
the stroke.
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So I call that one arms connection, give it a try, it'll help you feel which
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00:01:45.050 --> 00:01:45.600
muscles
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00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:47.640
should control the majority of your putting stroke.
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