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Physical Alignment - Putting

Neck, forearms, shoulders, chest, hips, feet - The closer that the body part is to the center of movement of the club, the more influential it is in controlling how it moves. The neck, forearms, and shoulders are the most critical for alignment towards the in- tended target. The more that these are off, the more that you will have to compensate in your stroke.

Playlists: Putting

Tags: Putt, Drill

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Okay, so now that you've got a stable lower body and you're visually aligned up so that it looks square

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Let's do some fine tuning on your physical alignment because this is the next big bridge to

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To starting the ball online every single time. Okay, so I'm going to assume my setup position facing roughly perpendicular to the camera

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Because I'm going to pretend that this was my mirror because most of you are going to be practicing is the physical alignment

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And some of these drills at home using a mirror. So I'm going to take my my setup with the putter in the middle of stance because I'm a right eye dominant player

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And what I want to check in this mirror right here is the alignment of my forearms, right? So can I see my left forearm above or below?

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If anything, I want it a little below as in from this down the line view you could see about half of my left forearm compared to my right.

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So my forearm alignment, my shoulder alignment, my neck alignment. So that's one of the weird ones I want to take a second to address.

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A large percentage of your feel comes from your atlas, which is the top bone right here.

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It's the the first cervical vertebra and it provides a lot of your what's called proprioception or feel when you're walking.

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So if if your neck is not aimed dead square at the golf ball if it's aimed kind of like this or like this, that can make it a little harder for your body to orient itself to the golf ball or orient itself in space.

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So you're going to check forearms, you're going to check shoulders, you're going to check neck, then you can check pelvis and feet, but I don't think they're nearly as important as shoulders neck forearms.

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The closer you are to either the center of the swing, which is right up here or the closer you are to the handle, the more influence it's going to have.

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So don't worry about if you see somebody in their feet or aimed one way, check their forearms, check their shoulders. That's how you're going to see where they're really physically aligned.

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Okay, so this takes a little bit of me or work. Five minutes a day can go wonders for having a consistent setup, but first make sure that it's built on the foundation of having your eyes in proper alignment.