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This drill is working on your path or face with a meter stick.

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So here I've got a meter stick or yard stick and I can use either side of it

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but basically

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what I have is three teas, one in the middle and two on the sides you can put

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them on either

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end and the whole goal here is to create a vertical line.

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When I'm practicing at home and working on this concept I will typically just

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go to the

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corner of a wall and practice there.

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So if the club travels in a straight plane then what will happen is the club

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will come

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slightly up and slightly in.

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You can see here there's more space between the toe of the club and the yard

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stick or

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meter stick.

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If I brought it back dead straight it would go a little bit more like this

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where it would

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be up straight above the edge of the meter stick there.

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So my goal is to have the putter just arc in slightly and then just arc in

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slightly

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on the way through.

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I can also use this to look at putter face rotation so if I tend to spin the

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putter face open

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or I tend to keep it square almost closed this will give me a little visual

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reference.

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So I want to bring the putter slightly inside and the putter face will be open

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just slightly.

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I would say the more golfers air on having too much face rotation rather than

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too little

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but then they compensate by having more of an outward path.

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So if I struggle with the path then what I'll do is I will place an object that

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's inside

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so let's put it about where the heel of your putter is and about a foot maybe

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14 inches

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or so behind the ball.

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So it's going to give me something to swing backwards but the putter is going

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to swing

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just above it.

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So now as I release through I don't think I aim this perfectly but I got it set

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up good

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for the camera.

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So I'm using the balls with the line on it so I can see how well I'm rolling it

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end

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over end.

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Often times if I bring it back more straight you'll see I get a little bit of

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wobble to

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the line because I had more of a cut stroke on the way through.

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If we slowed that down you would see that it came slightly across this way.

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So now if I bring it more back towards the ball you'll see that the ball rolls

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a little

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bit better end over then.

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So this is a great little visual station for dialing in the path either on the

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way back

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or on the way through.

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This can be a really good just diagnostic if you have somebody shoot from down

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the line.

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You can see get a really good rough sense of your path.

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You can also look at the face control.

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If you do that have a buddy hold it straight over the putter right here and

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then you can

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look for how much is that face rotating on both directions.

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The most common pattern would be a little bit straight back and open and then a

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little

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bit through and closing kind of quickly.

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So that can cause all kinds of start line problems which then makes it hard for

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you to commit

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to reading in green and irrespective of speed it's hard to make a lot of putts.

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If you can't start the ball online roll it end over end.

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It makes it really hard to then move on to those other skills of green reading

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and speed

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control which ultimately should be a little bit more important.

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So use a station like this get the ball rolling end over end from good path and

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face awareness

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and then you can work on the two harder skills and more important ones for

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being an elite

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level putter.