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This drill is building a confident three foot stroke.

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So I have some students who really struggle on the short putts, especially the

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three to

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four footers, those ones that I think you can see the hole out of the corner of

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your

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eye so it can be kind of daunting.

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You feel like you should make it.

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A strategy that I use for these three to four foot putts is basically figuring

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out the shortest

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stroke you can make confidently and rehearsing that.

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So confidently meaning some good acceleration while maintaining my overall good

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structure.

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What I find that a lot of golfers do on these short putts, if you struggle with

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it, is either

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having some body rotation or a drag of the putter with tends to open the face

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or too

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big of a stroke and then kind of slowing it down and as you do the putter face

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closes

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and you tend to hit some pulls.

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So it boils down to club face control, but I find that golfers struggle with

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club face

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control when their tempo isn't very good because they don't have a measured

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length of backswing

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to go back to.

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So the task is we're going to try to make the shortest, but kind of a confident

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or assertive

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stroke without moving my legs and without using a whole lot of wrist.

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So I'm basically going to get here and my, I'll rehearse it a couple times.

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So this is my shortest confident stroke and that looks something like that,

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typically

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goes about three feet on a like a 10-stimp green, slightly uphill like this

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scenario here.

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So this is going to be my baseline for most short putts and I'm training that

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if I make

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this stroke, my start line is going to be good enough that if I aim it right, I

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should

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feel like I don't have to necessarily look at the hole, I just have to make the

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good

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confident stroke and the ball is going to go in.

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Now it also gives me a reference.

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There will be times where you have a really sneaky downhill putt and I still

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don't want

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you to decelerate.

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So you have two options.

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You can either make a shorter than comfortable stroke or a slower than normal

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tempo, but

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still kind of keeping that good assertive quality to it.

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So the shorter stroke would look, that's about as small as I can do that's not

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comfortable.

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So it's about half the distance of my comfort stroke and that goes about a foot

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and a half.

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Or I could make my comfortable stroke and I'm just going to slow it down just a

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little

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bit kind of play with the tempo.

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And so they go about the same distance.

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I can't say I love one more than the other, but there are two different ways

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that you

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can adjust your normal three or four foot stroke cut it in half.

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So basically if I have a short putt, if I'm anywhere around the hole here, I'm

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just going

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to be making, I'm going to trust my aim and then I'm going to make that stroke.

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What I find that bad putters do is they tend to get up there and they try and

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kind of guide

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it in in some fashion, we're trying to take that out by practicing these three

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footters.

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Alright, so now if I want to take that drill and apply it here, I'm basically

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going to

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place it so that the yardstick is going to the middle of the hole and I'm going

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to back

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it up just slightly so that my putter has about the right amount of room, I'm

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putting

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it just inside the end.

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So now if I was going to make that short stroke, I might have aimed a little

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left or I might

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have pulled it for the camera, let's see if we can do a little bit better one.

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There we go.

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So that was more center face or center path.

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But practicing these and getting really comfortable and doing some type of

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drill like the ring

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of fire while applying basically the same stroke every single time, not trying

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to change

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the stroke and guide it, but just trying to groove a comfortable three to four

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foot stroke

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and then applying that when you're on the course, I tend to that helps with a

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lot of

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golfers to get a little bit shaky on these almost must make putts.