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This putting video is discussing speed burst on your short putts.

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So some golfers have trouble on their short putts.

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This is an uphill 5 footer.

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I would say the more common place that this happens is when you have a little

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bit of a

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downhill putt.

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And I'm going to talk to you about the two places where I feel golfers tend to

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struggle

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with getting more consistent speed control.

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So ideally we're going to have more of the energy in our stroke coming from our

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shoulder

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blades and thoracic spine where our arms are kind of along for the ride or

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contributing

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but not the dominant power source.

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We don't have very much happening from the lower body.

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So I recommend building your short putting stroke and getting comfortable with

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a stroke

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where you're not bringing it back too far and having smooth acceleration and it

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might

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look something like that, pretty good speed.

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Now what I'll show you is the two ways that I see golfers who tend to struggle

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with these

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putts.

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They tend to get either some excessive body rotation or some excessive wrist

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and arm action on the

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way through.

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So if I hit a couple putts and I'll hit these off to the side just so we can

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see where they

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ultimately end up, you can see that these are going about the same distance a

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little

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bit past the whole kind of like that.

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So those were rolling close to the same speed.

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Now I'm going to try my best to make the same arm motion but I'm going to turn

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my body

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on the way through.

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And if I'll turn my hips in my upper body, this one I'll miss that cluster of

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balls.

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And you'll see how just by turning my body it adds an extra couple feet of

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distance to

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it.

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And some golfers get really excited and turn their body on the way through kind

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of extra

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kind of like that.

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And you can see I just hit that what felt like the same tempo and arm motion

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but there

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I hit it a good four or five feet past almost double the length of the putt.

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So if you find that you just have a lot of trouble with your speed control on

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these shorter

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putts, that's something you want to look at.

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Usually we'd look at it from the down the line view to see if the lower body is

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rotating

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or if the shoulders are rotating a lot on the way through.

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The second option, like I said, is the lower body will be pretty good but the

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head upper

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body and kind of hands or arms will have some extra motion on the way through

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as well.

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So lower body will stay pretty good but I've got a little bit of an extra kind

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of like punch

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to it again.

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Felt like a similar tempo but I could also tell that I was adding a little bit

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of extra

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speed.

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What usually then ends up happening is if you're adding one of those two kind

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of speed

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bursts on the way through then you start feeling like you have to slow down or

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decelerate instead

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of letting the putter kind of swing freely and crash into the golf ball you

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start feeling

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like you have to guide it and slow it down and now you have putts that you

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leave short

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and then you don't guide it and you hit it way past.

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So you start having speed control issues on your short putt.

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If you build a stroke where you can roll it about the same distance and you're

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not getting

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either of those extra power sources then you'll be able to control the pace and

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then you can

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focus primarily on start line for your short putts.