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This drill is the putter drop catch.

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This is a way to work on your rhythm and your tempo and your feeling of the pendulum swing

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or what I call with a lot of students are wrecking ball.

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One of the goals for consistent tempo is to have the mass of the putter head or the weight

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of the putter head causing the acceleration not you forceably moving the club.

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And so, oftentimes golfers are really unaware that they are hitting it or forcing

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it with their arms and their body.

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So I'll do this little drill, what will do a drop catch?

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So I'm going to take the putter and I'm going to toss it lightly up in the air.

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And my goal is I'm going to match the weight of the putter as it's falling.

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So my arms are dropping with the putter so that there feels like there's basically no impact.

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So this is my arms falling at the speed of the putter.

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Now I'm going to try to apply that feel to a stroke.

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I'm going to bring it back and right through there I'm going to try and match the speed

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of the putter falling.

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Now one of the key things here is here.

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You can notice I'm not doing a lot with my wrists.

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I'm not just doing it like that.

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I'm using my whole arms.

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Same thing here.

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I want to match the speed with my shoulders and my arms not with my wrists.

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This would be matching the speed with my wrist where my body didn't do anything.

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This would be matching the speed with my wrist with my body turning.

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It'll still look flippy and I'm going to tend to have some face control issues if I do that.

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But if I match it with my arms while my wrists stay a little bit more firm, then I'm

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going to tend.

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Oh, that's a good part.

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I'm going to tend to have a really repeatable acceleration pattern.

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Then if I need to hit the ball further all I have to do is take a bigger swing but I'm

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not going to change that acceleration.

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I'm just going to match it longer.

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So here's the short put and then here's the long put.

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I'm just matching it from the top of the swing all the way down to impact.

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This can be really good for feel, base golfers for learning this more rhythmic or pendulum

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type acceleration pattern.

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This can help a lot with your distance control but it can also help with the face control

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on the short puts.

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When you accelerate it, you'll tend to cause a little bit of face rotation and that can

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cause you to miss some of your shorter puts.