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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Speed Control with This Simple Putting Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Adjust your backswing length for better distance control on putts
- Develop a consistent tempo to improve your overall putting rhythm
- Quickly identify and practice with reference putts to enhance your feel for speed
In this video, you'll learn a straightforward drill to enhance your speed control on the greens by focusing on your swing length and tempo. Mastering this technique will help you make more accurate putts, reducing the number of three-putts in your game.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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This putting drill is the speed control formula.
2
00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:13.640
So in this video, this drill, I'm going to walk through the process I use for
3
00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:13.680
helping
4
00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:17.400
golfers dial in their speed control very quickly.
5
00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:20.120
So you know that there's two big factors for speed control.
6
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.640
You've got your tempo and your length of swing.
7
00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:27.240
So this helps you train your conscious length of swing training, hopefully
8
00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:28.240
while keeping
9
00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:30.300
a consistent tempo.
10
00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:36.350
So I'll jump into the process here, which is we're not really going to make any
11
00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:37.240
technical
12
00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:38.240
changes to our stroke.
13
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We're just focusing on a reference putt and then adjusting to that.
14
00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.530
So if you have multiple reference putts, you can do this for kind of within the
15
00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:48.880
zone.
16
00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.370
So like if you have three different reference putts, you could do for the zones
17
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between
18
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reference putt two and reference putt three.
19
00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.800
But I'll show it as if we only had one.
20
00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.720
If you're only going to have one reference putt, I like it to be about a 15
21
00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:00.200
inch back
22
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swing or somewhere around a 30 footer.
23
00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.400
So fairly close to the towel that I have on the ground there.
24
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So if I was to do a stock putt, my 30 footer, that finishes pretty much next to
25
00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.200
the towel.
26
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So now if I was doing normal 30, 40, 50 feet, I would probably just jump right
27
00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:24.520
in, set up
28
00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:26.600
and then try to make a bigger stroke.
29
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But for this, for focusing on speed control training, I'm going to make the
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stock putt
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first and then I'm going to make an adjustment, a conscious adjustment compared
32
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to the stock
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putt.
34
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So to hit to the, so I'm looking at the towel first.
35
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So now I'm going to make the putting stroke that would take it to the towel.
36
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And now I'm going to look at the flag and I'm going to consciously feel that
37
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that goes
38
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maybe about a three inch bigger backswing.
39
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And we'll see that hopefully that finishes pretty close.
40
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Maybe a foot past, but pretty close.
41
00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:10.670
So we'll take it and then if we were to go to the club, which is another 10
42
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feet past
43
00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:15.330
or three paces or three and a half paces, I'm going to now try to add three
44
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feet to
45
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that.
46
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Now I'm not going to do the flag as my practice rope.
47
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I'm still going to do my stock putt.
48
00:02:21.420 --> 00:02:27.020
So I'm going to do my stock putt, which would go about 30 feet.
49
00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:30.580
And now when I was doing those, I was looking more or less at the towel.
50
00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.100
Now I'm going to look all the way down at the club on the ground and I'm going
51
00:02:35.100 --> 00:02:35.500
to try
52
00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:39.780
to take it about six inch bigger backswing.
53
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So six inch bigger backswing.
54
00:02:45.660 --> 00:02:49.620
A little quicker on the tempo, but that's not too bad.
55
00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:51.540
That probably would have rolled about a foot past it again.
56
00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:57.290
So at least I'm fairly consistent as far as my tweaks, like I'm going about a
57
00:02:57.290 --> 00:02:58.180
foot past,
58
00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:00.100
I could make an easy adjustment there.
59
00:03:00.100 --> 00:03:03.650
But the recipe is the most important thing, that you have a stock putt and then
60
00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:04.060
every
61
00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:07.660
single putt you're going to do the stock putt practice swing first.
62
00:03:07.660 --> 00:03:11.620
And then what I actually want to do on this putt and how it compares.
63
00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:15.440
If you do that, you'll get really good at adjusting for different length
64
00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:16.180
distances in
65
00:03:16.180 --> 00:03:17.460
a very short amount of time.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.440
This putting drill is the speed control formula.
2
00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:13.640
So in this video, this drill, I'm going to walk through the process I use for
3
00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:13.680
helping
4
00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:17.400
golfers dial in their speed control very quickly.
5
00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:20.120
So you know that there's two big factors for speed control.
6
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.640
You've got your tempo and your length of swing.
7
00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:27.240
So this helps you train your conscious length of swing training, hopefully
8
00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:28.240
while keeping
9
00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:30.300
a consistent tempo.
10
00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:36.350
So I'll jump into the process here, which is we're not really going to make any
11
00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:37.240
technical
12
00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:38.240
changes to our stroke.
13
00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.200
We're just focusing on a reference putt and then adjusting to that.
14
00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.530
So if you have multiple reference putts, you can do this for kind of within the
15
00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:48.880
zone.
16
00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.370
So like if you have three different reference putts, you could do for the zones
17
00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:52.840
between
18
00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.720
reference putt two and reference putt three.
19
00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.800
But I'll show it as if we only had one.
20
00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.720
If you're only going to have one reference putt, I like it to be about a 15
21
00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:00.200
inch back
22
00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.520
swing or somewhere around a 30 footer.
23
00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.400
So fairly close to the towel that I have on the ground there.
24
00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:15.700
So if I was to do a stock putt, my 30 footer, that finishes pretty much next to
25
00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.200
the towel.
26
00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.500
So now if I was doing normal 30, 40, 50 feet, I would probably just jump right
27
00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:24.520
in, set up
28
00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:26.600
and then try to make a bigger stroke.
29
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.930
But for this, for focusing on speed control training, I'm going to make the
30
00:01:31.930 --> 00:01:32.520
stock putt
31
00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:36.240
first and then I'm going to make an adjustment, a conscious adjustment compared
32
00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:36.860
to the stock
33
00:01:36.860 --> 00:01:37.860
putt.
34
00:01:37.860 --> 00:01:41.320
So to hit to the, so I'm looking at the towel first.
35
00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.480
So now I'm going to make the putting stroke that would take it to the towel.
36
00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.620
And now I'm going to look at the flag and I'm going to consciously feel that
37
00:01:50.620 --> 00:01:51.300
that goes
38
00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:56.260
maybe about a three inch bigger backswing.
39
00:01:56.260 --> 00:02:01.740
And we'll see that hopefully that finishes pretty close.
40
00:02:01.740 --> 00:02:05.340
Maybe a foot past, but pretty close.
41
00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:10.670
So we'll take it and then if we were to go to the club, which is another 10
42
00:02:10.670 --> 00:02:11.300
feet past
43
00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:15.330
or three paces or three and a half paces, I'm going to now try to add three
44
00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:15.900
feet to
45
00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:16.900
that.
46
00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:19.420
Now I'm not going to do the flag as my practice rope.
47
00:02:19.420 --> 00:02:21.420
I'm still going to do my stock putt.
48
00:02:21.420 --> 00:02:27.020
So I'm going to do my stock putt, which would go about 30 feet.
49
00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:30.580
And now when I was doing those, I was looking more or less at the towel.
50
00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.100
Now I'm going to look all the way down at the club on the ground and I'm going
51
00:02:35.100 --> 00:02:35.500
to try
52
00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:39.780
to take it about six inch bigger backswing.
53
00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:45.660
So six inch bigger backswing.
54
00:02:45.660 --> 00:02:49.620
A little quicker on the tempo, but that's not too bad.
55
00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:51.540
That probably would have rolled about a foot past it again.
56
00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:57.290
So at least I'm fairly consistent as far as my tweaks, like I'm going about a
57
00:02:57.290 --> 00:02:58.180
foot past,
58
00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:00.100
I could make an easy adjustment there.
59
00:03:00.100 --> 00:03:03.650
But the recipe is the most important thing, that you have a stock putt and then
60
00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:04.060
every
61
00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:07.660
single putt you're going to do the stock putt practice swing first.
62
00:03:07.660 --> 00:03:11.620
And then what I actually want to do on this putt and how it compares.
63
00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:15.440
If you do that, you'll get really good at adjusting for different length
64
00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:16.180
distances in
65
00:03:16.180 --> 00:03:17.460
a very short amount of time.
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Speed Control with This Simple Putting Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Adjust your backswing length for better distance control on putts
- Develop a consistent tempo to improve your overall putting rhythm
- Quickly identify and practice with reference putts to enhance your feel for speed
In this video, you'll learn a straightforward drill to enhance your speed control on the greens by focusing on your swing length and tempo. Mastering this technique will help you make more accurate putts, reducing the number of three-putts in your game.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.440
This putting drill is the speed control formula.
2
00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:13.640
So in this video, this drill, I'm going to walk through the process I use for
3
00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:13.680
helping
4
00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:17.400
golfers dial in their speed control very quickly.
5
00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:20.120
So you know that there's two big factors for speed control.
6
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.640
You've got your tempo and your length of swing.
7
00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:27.240
So this helps you train your conscious length of swing training, hopefully
8
00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:28.240
while keeping
9
00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:30.300
a consistent tempo.
10
00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:36.350
So I'll jump into the process here, which is we're not really going to make any
11
00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:37.240
technical
12
00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:38.240
changes to our stroke.
13
00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.200
We're just focusing on a reference putt and then adjusting to that.
14
00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.530
So if you have multiple reference putts, you can do this for kind of within the
15
00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:48.880
zone.
16
00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.370
So like if you have three different reference putts, you could do for the zones
17
00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:52.840
between
18
00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.720
reference putt two and reference putt three.
19
00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.800
But I'll show it as if we only had one.
20
00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.720
If you're only going to have one reference putt, I like it to be about a 15
21
00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:00.200
inch back
22
00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.520
swing or somewhere around a 30 footer.
23
00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.400
So fairly close to the towel that I have on the ground there.
24
00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:15.700
So if I was to do a stock putt, my 30 footer, that finishes pretty much next to
25
00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.200
the towel.
26
00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.500
So now if I was doing normal 30, 40, 50 feet, I would probably just jump right
27
00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:24.520
in, set up
28
00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:26.600
and then try to make a bigger stroke.
29
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.930
But for this, for focusing on speed control training, I'm going to make the
30
00:01:31.930 --> 00:01:32.520
stock putt
31
00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:36.240
first and then I'm going to make an adjustment, a conscious adjustment compared
32
00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:36.860
to the stock
33
00:01:36.860 --> 00:01:37.860
putt.
34
00:01:37.860 --> 00:01:41.320
So to hit to the, so I'm looking at the towel first.
35
00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.480
So now I'm going to make the putting stroke that would take it to the towel.
36
00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.620
And now I'm going to look at the flag and I'm going to consciously feel that
37
00:01:50.620 --> 00:01:51.300
that goes
38
00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:56.260
maybe about a three inch bigger backswing.
39
00:01:56.260 --> 00:02:01.740
And we'll see that hopefully that finishes pretty close.
40
00:02:01.740 --> 00:02:05.340
Maybe a foot past, but pretty close.
41
00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:10.670
So we'll take it and then if we were to go to the club, which is another 10
42
00:02:10.670 --> 00:02:11.300
feet past
43
00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:15.330
or three paces or three and a half paces, I'm going to now try to add three
44
00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:15.900
feet to
45
00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:16.900
that.
46
00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:19.420
Now I'm not going to do the flag as my practice rope.
47
00:02:19.420 --> 00:02:21.420
I'm still going to do my stock putt.
48
00:02:21.420 --> 00:02:27.020
So I'm going to do my stock putt, which would go about 30 feet.
49
00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:30.580
And now when I was doing those, I was looking more or less at the towel.
50
00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.100
Now I'm going to look all the way down at the club on the ground and I'm going
51
00:02:35.100 --> 00:02:35.500
to try
52
00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:39.780
to take it about six inch bigger backswing.
53
00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:45.660
So six inch bigger backswing.
54
00:02:45.660 --> 00:02:49.620
A little quicker on the tempo, but that's not too bad.
55
00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:51.540
That probably would have rolled about a foot past it again.
56
00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:57.290
So at least I'm fairly consistent as far as my tweaks, like I'm going about a
57
00:02:57.290 --> 00:02:58.180
foot past,
58
00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:00.100
I could make an easy adjustment there.
59
00:03:00.100 --> 00:03:03.650
But the recipe is the most important thing, that you have a stock putt and then
60
00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:04.060
every
61
00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:07.660
single putt you're going to do the stock putt practice swing first.
62
00:03:07.660 --> 00:03:11.620
And then what I actually want to do on this putt and how it compares.
63
00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:15.440
If you do that, you'll get really good at adjusting for different length
64
00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:16.180
distances in
65
00:03:16.180 --> 00:03:17.460
a very short amount of time.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.440
This putting drill is the speed control formula.
2
00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:13.640
So in this video, this drill, I'm going to walk through the process I use for
3
00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:13.680
helping
4
00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:17.400
golfers dial in their speed control very quickly.
5
00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:20.120
So you know that there's two big factors for speed control.
6
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.640
You've got your tempo and your length of swing.
7
00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:27.240
So this helps you train your conscious length of swing training, hopefully
8
00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:28.240
while keeping
9
00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:30.300
a consistent tempo.
10
00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:36.350
So I'll jump into the process here, which is we're not really going to make any
11
00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:37.240
technical
12
00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:38.240
changes to our stroke.
13
00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.200
We're just focusing on a reference putt and then adjusting to that.
14
00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.530
So if you have multiple reference putts, you can do this for kind of within the
15
00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:48.880
zone.
16
00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.370
So like if you have three different reference putts, you could do for the zones
17
00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:52.840
between
18
00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.720
reference putt two and reference putt three.
19
00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.800
But I'll show it as if we only had one.
20
00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.720
If you're only going to have one reference putt, I like it to be about a 15
21
00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:00.200
inch back
22
00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.520
swing or somewhere around a 30 footer.
23
00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.400
So fairly close to the towel that I have on the ground there.
24
00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:15.700
So if I was to do a stock putt, my 30 footer, that finishes pretty much next to
25
00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.200
the towel.
26
00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.500
So now if I was doing normal 30, 40, 50 feet, I would probably just jump right
27
00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:24.520
in, set up
28
00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:26.600
and then try to make a bigger stroke.
29
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.930
But for this, for focusing on speed control training, I'm going to make the
30
00:01:31.930 --> 00:01:32.520
stock putt
31
00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:36.240
first and then I'm going to make an adjustment, a conscious adjustment compared
32
00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:36.860
to the stock
33
00:01:36.860 --> 00:01:37.860
putt.
34
00:01:37.860 --> 00:01:41.320
So to hit to the, so I'm looking at the towel first.
35
00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.480
So now I'm going to make the putting stroke that would take it to the towel.
36
00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.620
And now I'm going to look at the flag and I'm going to consciously feel that
37
00:01:50.620 --> 00:01:51.300
that goes
38
00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:56.260
maybe about a three inch bigger backswing.
39
00:01:56.260 --> 00:02:01.740
And we'll see that hopefully that finishes pretty close.
40
00:02:01.740 --> 00:02:05.340
Maybe a foot past, but pretty close.
41
00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:10.670
So we'll take it and then if we were to go to the club, which is another 10
42
00:02:10.670 --> 00:02:11.300
feet past
43
00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:15.330
or three paces or three and a half paces, I'm going to now try to add three
44
00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:15.900
feet to
45
00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:16.900
that.
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Now I'm not going to do the flag as my practice rope.
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I'm still going to do my stock putt.
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So I'm going to do my stock putt, which would go about 30 feet.
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And now when I was doing those, I was looking more or less at the towel.
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Now I'm going to look all the way down at the club on the ground and I'm going
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to try
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to take it about six inch bigger backswing.
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So six inch bigger backswing.
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A little quicker on the tempo, but that's not too bad.
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That probably would have rolled about a foot past it again.
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So at least I'm fairly consistent as far as my tweaks, like I'm going about a
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foot past,
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I could make an easy adjustment there.
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But the recipe is the most important thing, that you have a stock putt and then
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every
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single putt you're going to do the stock putt practice swing first.
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And then what I actually want to do on this putt and how it compares.
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If you do that, you'll get really good at adjusting for different length
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distances in
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a very short amount of time.
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