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Improve Putter Control by Connecting Your Arms and Body

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how your core muscles contribute to a more stable putting stroke
  • Recognize the difference between using small versus large muscle groups
  • Practice maintaining a consistent putter path by connecting your arms to your body

In this quick drill, you'll learn how to create a proper connection between your arms and body for better putter face and path control. Understanding this relationship will enhance your putting efficiency and consistency on the greens.

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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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Putter Control by Connecting Your Arms and Body

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how your core muscles contribute to a more stable putting stroke
  • Recognize the difference between using small versus large muscle groups
  • Practice maintaining a consistent putter path by connecting your arms to your body

In this quick drill, you'll learn how to create a proper connection between your arms and body for better putter face and path control. Understanding this relationship will enhance your putting efficiency and consistency on the greens.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

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

4
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

6
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

8
00:00:19.850 --> 00:00:20.480
everything

9
00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.280
else moves around.

10
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?

13
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

15
00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:35.560
most of the movement to come from.

16
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

20
00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.520
position flexing your knees so that you can keep your lower body stable, you'll

21
00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:52.000
feel a

22
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

23
00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:56.640
abdominals

24
00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:57.640
working.

25
00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.480
And the reason for this is because the weight is so far away from me I have to

26
00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:01.040
use the big

27
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

31
00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:15.670
and my arms and shoulders but that's not very efficient for building a proper

32
00:01:15.670 --> 00:01:16.080
art.

33
00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:22.190
So again, one way, just kind of rest those forearms there and as you rotate

34
00:01:22.190 --> 00:01:22.980
back and

35
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

36
00:01:28.380 --> 00:01:29.320
muscles control

37
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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00:01:35.430 --> 00:01:36.600
is resting

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00:01:36.600 --> 00:01:40.420
on the ground trying to feel the same movement and the same muscles controlling

40
00:01:40.420 --> 00:01:41.240
the stroke.

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00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:45.050
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

43
00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:47.640
should control the majority of your putting stroke.
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