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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
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America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Putting Stroke with the Chopstick Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel the proper connection between your arms and shoulders during putting.
- Avoid common putting mistakes like excessive wrist movement.
- Develop a stable putting motion by rotating around a fixed axis.
Learn how to enhance your putting stroke by connecting your arms and shoulders using the chopstick drill. This effective exercise helps eliminate excessive wrist movement for a more stable and controlled stroke.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960
This is the chopstick drill for putting, so one of the big concepts in putting
2
00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:06.280
is kind
3
00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:11.200
of feeling more of the arm connection and basically avoiding putting it with
4
00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:11.680
too much
5
00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:16.040
wrists and putting it more with either your shoulders or your body.
6
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:20.240
And a good way to feel your shoulders or your upper body involved in the
7
00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:20.800
putting stroke
8
00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.880
is I believe the original inventor was Paul Hurian, but you basically take two
9
00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:26.680
alignment
10
00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:33.130
sticks and then you rubber band them together, you know, a foot or so down at
11
00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:34.000
one end.
12
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.160
And then you're going to take the alignment sticks and stick them in your armp
13
00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:39.640
its.
14
00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.010
And what this will allow us to do is this is going to allow us to feel some
15
00:00:44.010 --> 00:00:44.860
connection
16
00:00:44.860 --> 00:00:46.320
between my arms.
17
00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.680
And now the main version I'll use is you're going to put your hands on the
18
00:00:50.680 --> 00:00:52.120
outside here,
19
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.400
but you can also do it with your hands a little bit more on the inside,
20
00:00:56.400 --> 00:00:57.360
depending on what
21
00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:03.250
you like to feel in your arms, more of a kind of a pushing activation or more
22
00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:03.880
of a pulling
23
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.920
activation or more of a pushing activation.
24
00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:13.740
Now I like to have an alignment stick here, so if I get the club in my armpits
25
00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:14.520
and I find
26
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kind of a good comfortable length of arm bend, so not too straight and not
27
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behind my body,
28
00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:25.620
comfortable length of arm bend, and then I bend and point this down at the
29
00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:26.360
alignment
30
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stick, this will just make sure that I can see kind of a symmetrical amount of
31
00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:32.880
curve.
32
00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.870
And this will allow me to feel what it's like to rotate my body on more of a
33
00:01:38.870 --> 00:01:39.560
stable
34
00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.480
axis pointing down at the golf ball.
35
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All common problems would be doing more of a lateral movement like this or
36
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doing too
37
00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:56.660
much rotation, basically almost rotating around a vertical axis instead of my
38
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spine.
39
00:01:57.360 --> 00:02:03.120
So if I'm rotating my shoulders more around my spine or rotating my upper body
40
00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.720
around
41
00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:08.040
my spine, it will tend to have a symmetric slight curve compared to this stick
42
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on the
43
00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:17.110
ground, or basically if I had a laser projecting out of this, that would follow
44
00:02:17.110 --> 00:02:17.840
the stick.
45
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.770
And so the two short ends of the chopstick are arcing just slightly similar to
46
00:02:22.770 --> 00:02:23.240
how the
47
00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:30.420
putter face will arc if I just make a stroke that is on plane or close to on
48
00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:31.520
plane.
49
00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.450
So once I have a feeling here, the neat thing about if you've got them rubber
50
00:02:34.450 --> 00:02:34.960
band together
51
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.660
instead of holding them together is you can actually hit putts while feeling,
52
00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:41.480
hopefully
53
00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:47.930
this is aiming pretty close, so you can actually hit putts while feeling the
54
00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:53.480
chopstick connection.
55
00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:54.520
Kind of like that.
56
00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.920
So it's a good bridge drill that you can do at home for feeling the arms and
57
00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:01.040
the shoulders
58
00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:05.720
working together but you can actually double with it making putts.
59
00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:10.570
It also helps with the visual ideas of what of the shoulder plane and the
60
00:03:10.570 --> 00:03:11.640
shoulder tilt
61
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:18.810
and how your body is going to actually rotate more on plane instead of getting
62
00:03:18.810 --> 00:03:19.800
any funky
63
00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.760
either too much side bend, not enough rotation or rotating at the wrong angle.
64
00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:28.310
So if you're struggling with feeling a little bit too much arms and especially
65
00:03:28.310 --> 00:03:28.960
wrists in
66
00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.370
your golf stroke try the Paul Hurian's chopstick drill for improving your put
67
00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:35.400
ter pivot.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960
This is the chopstick drill for putting, so one of the big concepts in putting
2
00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:06.280
is kind
3
00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:11.200
of feeling more of the arm connection and basically avoiding putting it with
4
00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:11.680
too much
5
00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:16.040
wrists and putting it more with either your shoulders or your body.
6
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:20.240
And a good way to feel your shoulders or your upper body involved in the
7
00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:20.800
putting stroke
8
00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.880
is I believe the original inventor was Paul Hurian, but you basically take two
9
00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:26.680
alignment
10
00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:33.130
sticks and then you rubber band them together, you know, a foot or so down at
11
00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:34.000
one end.
12
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.160
And then you're going to take the alignment sticks and stick them in your armp
13
00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:39.640
its.
14
00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.010
And what this will allow us to do is this is going to allow us to feel some
15
00:00:44.010 --> 00:00:44.860
connection
16
00:00:44.860 --> 00:00:46.320
between my arms.
17
00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.680
And now the main version I'll use is you're going to put your hands on the
18
00:00:50.680 --> 00:00:52.120
outside here,
19
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.400
but you can also do it with your hands a little bit more on the inside,
20
00:00:56.400 --> 00:00:57.360
depending on what
21
00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:03.250
you like to feel in your arms, more of a kind of a pushing activation or more
22
00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:03.880
of a pulling
23
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.920
activation or more of a pushing activation.
24
00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:13.740
Now I like to have an alignment stick here, so if I get the club in my armpits
25
00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:14.520
and I find
26
00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.830
kind of a good comfortable length of arm bend, so not too straight and not
27
00:01:19.830 --> 00:01:21.320
behind my body,
28
00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:25.620
comfortable length of arm bend, and then I bend and point this down at the
29
00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:26.360
alignment
30
00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:32.150
stick, this will just make sure that I can see kind of a symmetrical amount of
31
00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:32.880
curve.
32
00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.870
And this will allow me to feel what it's like to rotate my body on more of a
33
00:01:38.870 --> 00:01:39.560
stable
34
00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.480
axis pointing down at the golf ball.
35
00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:50.020
All common problems would be doing more of a lateral movement like this or
36
00:01:50.020 --> 00:01:50.960
doing too
37
00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:56.660
much rotation, basically almost rotating around a vertical axis instead of my
38
00:01:56.660 --> 00:01:57.360
spine.
39
00:01:57.360 --> 00:02:03.120
So if I'm rotating my shoulders more around my spine or rotating my upper body
40
00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.720
around
41
00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:08.040
my spine, it will tend to have a symmetric slight curve compared to this stick
42
00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:08.480
on the
43
00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:17.110
ground, or basically if I had a laser projecting out of this, that would follow
44
00:02:17.110 --> 00:02:17.840
the stick.
45
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.770
And so the two short ends of the chopstick are arcing just slightly similar to
46
00:02:22.770 --> 00:02:23.240
how the
47
00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:30.420
putter face will arc if I just make a stroke that is on plane or close to on
48
00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:31.520
plane.
49
00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.450
So once I have a feeling here, the neat thing about if you've got them rubber
50
00:02:34.450 --> 00:02:34.960
band together
51
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.660
instead of holding them together is you can actually hit putts while feeling,
52
00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:41.480
hopefully
53
00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:47.930
this is aiming pretty close, so you can actually hit putts while feeling the
54
00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:53.480
chopstick connection.
55
00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:54.520
Kind of like that.
56
00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.920
So it's a good bridge drill that you can do at home for feeling the arms and
57
00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:01.040
the shoulders
58
00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:05.720
working together but you can actually double with it making putts.
59
00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:10.570
It also helps with the visual ideas of what of the shoulder plane and the
60
00:03:10.570 --> 00:03:11.640
shoulder tilt
61
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:18.810
and how your body is going to actually rotate more on plane instead of getting
62
00:03:18.810 --> 00:03:19.800
any funky
63
00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.760
either too much side bend, not enough rotation or rotating at the wrong angle.
64
00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:28.310
So if you're struggling with feeling a little bit too much arms and especially
65
00:03:28.310 --> 00:03:28.960
wrists in
66
00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.370
your golf stroke try the Paul Hurian's chopstick drill for improving your put
67
00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:35.400
ter pivot.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
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 Your Putting Stroke with the Chopstick Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel the proper connection between your arms and shoulders during putting.
- Avoid common putting mistakes like excessive wrist movement.
- Develop a stable putting motion by rotating around a fixed axis.
Learn how to enhance your putting stroke by connecting your arms and shoulders using the chopstick drill. This effective exercise helps eliminate excessive wrist movement for a more stable and controlled stroke.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960
This is the chopstick drill for putting, so one of the big concepts in putting
2
00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:06.280
is kind
3
00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:11.200
of feeling more of the arm connection and basically avoiding putting it with
4
00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:11.680
too much
5
00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:16.040
wrists and putting it more with either your shoulders or your body.
6
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:20.240
And a good way to feel your shoulders or your upper body involved in the
7
00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:20.800
putting stroke
8
00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.880
is I believe the original inventor was Paul Hurian, but you basically take two
9
00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:26.680
alignment
10
00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:33.130
sticks and then you rubber band them together, you know, a foot or so down at
11
00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:34.000
one end.
12
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.160
And then you're going to take the alignment sticks and stick them in your armp
13
00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:39.640
its.
14
00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.010
And what this will allow us to do is this is going to allow us to feel some
15
00:00:44.010 --> 00:00:44.860
connection
16
00:00:44.860 --> 00:00:46.320
between my arms.
17
00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.680
And now the main version I'll use is you're going to put your hands on the
18
00:00:50.680 --> 00:00:52.120
outside here,
19
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.400
but you can also do it with your hands a little bit more on the inside,
20
00:00:56.400 --> 00:00:57.360
depending on what
21
00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:03.250
you like to feel in your arms, more of a kind of a pushing activation or more
22
00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:03.880
of a pulling
23
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.920
activation or more of a pushing activation.
24
00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:13.740
Now I like to have an alignment stick here, so if I get the club in my armpits
25
00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:14.520
and I find
26
00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.830
kind of a good comfortable length of arm bend, so not too straight and not
27
00:01:19.830 --> 00:01:21.320
behind my body,
28
00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:25.620
comfortable length of arm bend, and then I bend and point this down at the
29
00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:26.360
alignment
30
00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:32.150
stick, this will just make sure that I can see kind of a symmetrical amount of
31
00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:32.880
curve.
32
00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.870
And this will allow me to feel what it's like to rotate my body on more of a
33
00:01:38.870 --> 00:01:39.560
stable
34
00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.480
axis pointing down at the golf ball.
35
00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:50.020
All common problems would be doing more of a lateral movement like this or
36
00:01:50.020 --> 00:01:50.960
doing too
37
00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:56.660
much rotation, basically almost rotating around a vertical axis instead of my
38
00:01:56.660 --> 00:01:57.360
spine.
39
00:01:57.360 --> 00:02:03.120
So if I'm rotating my shoulders more around my spine or rotating my upper body
40
00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.720
around
41
00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:08.040
my spine, it will tend to have a symmetric slight curve compared to this stick
42
00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:08.480
on the
43
00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:17.110
ground, or basically if I had a laser projecting out of this, that would follow
44
00:02:17.110 --> 00:02:17.840
the stick.
45
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.770
And so the two short ends of the chopstick are arcing just slightly similar to
46
00:02:22.770 --> 00:02:23.240
how the
47
00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:30.420
putter face will arc if I just make a stroke that is on plane or close to on
48
00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:31.520
plane.
49
00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.450
So once I have a feeling here, the neat thing about if you've got them rubber
50
00:02:34.450 --> 00:02:34.960
band together
51
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.660
instead of holding them together is you can actually hit putts while feeling,
52
00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:41.480
hopefully
53
00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:47.930
this is aiming pretty close, so you can actually hit putts while feeling the
54
00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:53.480
chopstick connection.
55
00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:54.520
Kind of like that.
56
00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.920
So it's a good bridge drill that you can do at home for feeling the arms and
57
00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:01.040
the shoulders
58
00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:05.720
working together but you can actually double with it making putts.
59
00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:10.570
It also helps with the visual ideas of what of the shoulder plane and the
60
00:03:10.570 --> 00:03:11.640
shoulder tilt
61
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:18.810
and how your body is going to actually rotate more on plane instead of getting
62
00:03:18.810 --> 00:03:19.800
any funky
63
00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.760
either too much side bend, not enough rotation or rotating at the wrong angle.
64
00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:28.310
So if you're struggling with feeling a little bit too much arms and especially
65
00:03:28.310 --> 00:03:28.960
wrists in
66
00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.370
your golf stroke try the Paul Hurian's chopstick drill for improving your put
67
00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:35.400
ter pivot.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960
This is the chopstick drill for putting, so one of the big concepts in putting
2
00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:06.280
is kind
3
00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:11.200
of feeling more of the arm connection and basically avoiding putting it with
4
00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:11.680
too much
5
00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:16.040
wrists and putting it more with either your shoulders or your body.
6
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:20.240
And a good way to feel your shoulders or your upper body involved in the
7
00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:20.800
putting stroke
8
00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.880
is I believe the original inventor was Paul Hurian, but you basically take two
9
00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:26.680
alignment
10
00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:33.130
sticks and then you rubber band them together, you know, a foot or so down at
11
00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:34.000
one end.
12
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.160
And then you're going to take the alignment sticks and stick them in your armp
13
00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:39.640
its.
14
00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.010
And what this will allow us to do is this is going to allow us to feel some
15
00:00:44.010 --> 00:00:44.860
connection
16
00:00:44.860 --> 00:00:46.320
between my arms.
17
00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.680
And now the main version I'll use is you're going to put your hands on the
18
00:00:50.680 --> 00:00:52.120
outside here,
19
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.400
but you can also do it with your hands a little bit more on the inside,
20
00:00:56.400 --> 00:00:57.360
depending on what
21
00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:03.250
you like to feel in your arms, more of a kind of a pushing activation or more
22
00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:03.880
of a pulling
23
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.920
activation or more of a pushing activation.
24
00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:13.740
Now I like to have an alignment stick here, so if I get the club in my armpits
25
00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:14.520
and I find
26
00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.830
kind of a good comfortable length of arm bend, so not too straight and not
27
00:01:19.830 --> 00:01:21.320
behind my body,
28
00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:25.620
comfortable length of arm bend, and then I bend and point this down at the
29
00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:26.360
alignment
30
00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:32.150
stick, this will just make sure that I can see kind of a symmetrical amount of
31
00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:32.880
curve.
32
00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.870
And this will allow me to feel what it's like to rotate my body on more of a
33
00:01:38.870 --> 00:01:39.560
stable
34
00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.480
axis pointing down at the golf ball.
35
00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:50.020
All common problems would be doing more of a lateral movement like this or
36
00:01:50.020 --> 00:01:50.960
doing too
37
00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:56.660
much rotation, basically almost rotating around a vertical axis instead of my
38
00:01:56.660 --> 00:01:57.360
spine.
39
00:01:57.360 --> 00:02:03.120
So if I'm rotating my shoulders more around my spine or rotating my upper body
40
00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.720
around
41
00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:08.040
my spine, it will tend to have a symmetric slight curve compared to this stick
42
00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:08.480
on the
43
00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:17.110
ground, or basically if I had a laser projecting out of this, that would follow
44
00:02:17.110 --> 00:02:17.840
the stick.
45
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.770
And so the two short ends of the chopstick are arcing just slightly similar to
46
00:02:22.770 --> 00:02:23.240
how the
47
00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:30.420
putter face will arc if I just make a stroke that is on plane or close to on
48
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plane.
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So once I have a feeling here, the neat thing about if you've got them rubber
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band together
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instead of holding them together is you can actually hit putts while feeling,
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hopefully
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this is aiming pretty close, so you can actually hit putts while feeling the
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chopstick connection.
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Kind of like that.
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So it's a good bridge drill that you can do at home for feeling the arms and
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the shoulders
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working together but you can actually double with it making putts.
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It also helps with the visual ideas of what of the shoulder plane and the
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shoulder tilt
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and how your body is going to actually rotate more on plane instead of getting
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any funky
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either too much side bend, not enough rotation or rotating at the wrong angle.
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So if you're struggling with feeling a little bit too much arms and especially
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wrists in
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your golf stroke try the Paul Hurian's chopstick drill for improving your put
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ter pivot.
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