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Putting video is connecting tempo on short and long putts. So there's a little

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bit of

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a conflict. I had a good question about kind of, you know, I'm an overall fan

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of feeling

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like you swing the putter in the arms kind of more like a pendulum, more like

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dead weight

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hitting the golf ball. But we start to have a problem with this model when you

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do a really

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short stroke. If I bring it back a certain amount and I let it go, then the put

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ter is

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going to have a certain amount of speed and it's going to kind of like crash in

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the golf

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ball. And you can see if I did that, you know, let's say from about this height

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, like there

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I start to hit the ball with a little bit of pace to it. Now if I only brought

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this back

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a couple inches for a short putt, you see the putter is barely moving as it

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goes through.

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So if I brought it back to here and just let it go, it hit the ball two inches.

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That's

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not really going to be usable. So eventually you get to a point where you have

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to start

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adding speed or adding a little bit of energy into the system. So usually what

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I want you

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to try to do is I want you to try and match your feeling of impact on the pend

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ulum stroke

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for the longer putts compared to the short putt where you are having to add a

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little

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bit of tempo. So you're going to feel like you're accelerating, but you're

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accelerating

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close to the way it feels when you swing your pendulum stroke. So let's say we

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're going

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to do one of our stock putts. So I'm going to do my kind of like baseline putt

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where

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I bring it back about six inches past my foot. This is usually like close to a

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30 foot putt,

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something like that. Now, as I do that, if I do it a couple times, you'll see

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that the

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balls roll about the same distance, because I had about the same length back

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swing. And

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I just felt like the whole system was crashing into the golf ball. So it was

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swinging more

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powered by gravity rather than me adding a lot to it. Now what I want to try to

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do is

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I want to do a practice swing where I'm going to get that feeling of gravity.

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And now I'm

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going to do a shorter stroke. And I want to feel like through the ball, it has

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a similar

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feel. In order to get that similar feel, I'm going to feel like I have to add a

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little

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force or acceleration. And I want to do that early in the swing so it can still

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kind of

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coast through impact rather than trying to add it late to the swing and

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accelerate through

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impact or kind of force the handle through impact. So we'll do maybe one more

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of those

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just to kind of get that tempo feel that rolled about the same speed. And now

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if I do

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a shorter putt, trying to feel that there's a little bit of an acceleration

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early in transition.

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But then it still has kind of that feel of coasting through the ball. So that's

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the way

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that most of the data shows that golfers will have a consistent tempo,

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regardless of the

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length of their stroke. But in order to make that work, you have to match this

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little gray

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zone of the short putts, having a conscious acceleration and the long putts,

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having more

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of this kind of feeling of gravity or passive acceleration. If you can blend

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those, you

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can be really consistent with your speed control. And then all you got to have

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the work on

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is line and start line aiming and green reading.