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This concept video is the science of the putter flip. So many golfers struggle

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with getting rusty or flipping the putter and we're gonna talk a little bit

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about what's going on and while this is an important concept for putting,

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because

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it definitely messes up your face and path, it does relate to the full swing.

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So

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you can take this and apply it to short game as well as the full swing but it's

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small enough and easy enough that we're gonna break it down with putting. So I

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've

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got a one of our old demo putters here and I took a piece of tape and put it in

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the middle of the grip and so the spot that I've got there is essentially where

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the hands will intersect and so that point there is an important point when

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you're talking with a golf bio-mechanist that's where the hands kind of overlap

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and apply forces to the the putter or the golf club. Now in a flip what's

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happening is I'm either so a flip will look like this and sometimes it has

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rotation in it but the primary thing is it will look like that. Now you can see

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that when I do that basically below this point is going forward and above this

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point is going backward kind of like this. Well that either means that I'm

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applying a force below like this either with the wrist or with the arm or with

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the shoulder right so I could straighten the arm I could do it with the

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shoulder

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or I could do it with the wrist. The other option is I'm pushing back and I'm

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kind of blocking with this hand so if I push this way above the line or that

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way

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below the line that's gonna cause this flip action. So in order to not flip I

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need to do the opposite. I need to apply a force below the line this way or

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above

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the line that way. So basically that would be either more of that left side

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pulling or more pushing with the higher part of the right hand rather than the

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lower part of the right hand because it can be tricky once if I go to one hand

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well then I don't have both hands working on it but I still have that same

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essential point. So if I'm putting one handed then it would be if I if I flip

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it

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would be applying force more towards the bottom end of the grip rather than the

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top end. So if I need to keep the top end moving then I need to keep more my

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the

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heel of my hand and the inside of my arm working or if I really wanted to flip

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then I would get the bottom of hand moving in the top part of the hand going

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the opposite direction. So now you can break this down when you're doing your

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single arm drills if you're having any any of a flip you can basically find

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out well is the left arm kind of stopping and letting the club pass or is

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the right arm straightening or right wrist flipping. So those are really my

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options for the putter flip. There are a few more with the full swing because

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you

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can get your your body heavily involved but when it comes to striking the putt

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with just the putter it's more about how these arms and hands are acting no

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speed. So if you struggle with a little bit too much wrists then any of the

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drills that kind of take especially that right arm out of it and get more of

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the

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energy happening more from the upper body and the shoulders the shoulders and

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the arms can tend to smooth out that foot pattern but sometimes putting a dot

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or

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just kind of visualizing where the hands interact and trying to keep the top of

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the grip moving faster than the bottom of the grip will help you when you're

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working through your foot pattern. So demonstration the left hand only if I

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keep the top part of the grip moving which comes from keeping that left side

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going through or if I right hand only if I keep the heel of the hand moving

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instead

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of the the toe side or sorry the the finger side if I put both hands on then

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it's a matter of coordinating the two to kind of work together and feel more

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that right side and left side and kind of my whole body keeping the club from

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passing. So if you're struggling with a flip hopefully this helps you visualize

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what's actually happening at the hands and you can come up with some ways that

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you can train it.