5 Putting Hacks

it is absolutely awesome to have you here today I have a five surefire putting hacks that are gonna help you to drain more putts today let's go and get started so one of the biggest problems we have is getting Risty with these short to mid-range putts it seems like we get to a really pressure putt we really need to make this one and that's when the hands and arms start to act up and we hardly ever make those so there's a great solution to this all we need to do is put a golf ball between our right forearm and the top of the putting grip now as I take my normal grip I'm gonna notice there's a little tiny bit of pressure between my right forearm and my wrist now if I move my wrists at all all of a sudden that ball is gonna fall out so I really have to be super super stable with my wrists in my arms I'm not gonna get very much hand action in there or that golf ball will fall out right away and I'm gonna stay stable over this it's gonna help me to make some more putts now keeping with that same theme of eliminating the rest from the putting stroke getting a really good feel for the putting stroke I recommend you put with a wedge now right away with the wedge something you'll realize is you have to be much much more precise than you do with the putter and I'm a little bit off now it's gonna be a big miss so I don't actually mind if you make any putts of the wedge what I'm trying to get you to do is have a much better feel with your hands and now to control the clubface when you're making a putting stroke so the first thing we want to do here this is what's called random practice so there's tons of research out there in motor learning that says if we can actually practice only extremes both ways it's going to increase our feel and we're going to keep that feel for a longer period of time so when you're putting with this wedge here's what I want you to do I want you to purposely hit some putts off the toe of the wedge and off the heel of the wedge immediately you'll start to feel how it wants to open up the club face a little bit when I hit off the toe and how it wants to close the club face a little bit when I hit it off the heel you'll start to really be able to feel that much more in the wedge and you would be with the putter second from there I want you to try to hit this a little bit lower on this golf ball so the problem with the wedge is if I start to hit especially if I get out to 20 or 30 feet and I hit a little lower on the golf ball the bottom of the golf ball that ball is gonna pop up in the air then you're gonna hit a little higher on the golf ball we're gonna notice that that ball is gonna smush down on the ground and then hop up and roll to so I have to hit it right in the equator very very fine-tuned and precise to get this ball to roll pretty well so we're trying to hit off the toe we're trying to hit off the heel we're trying to hit low and high and then finally let's find that middle zone in between we actually hit right off the center of the face and in the equator or the center of the ball now you may be asking why use a wedge what's the point of this well this speeds up your improvement process this speeds up the time it's going to take you to develop this feel because it's just too easy with the putter if we don't get enough feedback we're not really sure what we're doing with a putter I got this big wide flat face I can hit it anywhere on there and it's gonna be fine with a wedge I just have this one thin tiny bit of a line if I'm off at all I'm gonna get that immediate feedback and I'm gonna develop feel much faster so the wedge a great way to practice your putting now here's a great way to determine if you're releasing the face correctly a lot of times that I'll see players do is they they try to hold this face dead square they make this great putting stroke and they try to guide it into the hole whenever you got it what ends up happening is that face ends up opening up because we're dragging the handle forward and a lot of times the heel will be releasing faster than the the toe of the putter now with all the research out there what they've shown is the face is going to open up slightly in the backstroke four players have more of a straight back and straight through that may not be very much if players have a little bit more of an arc that's going to be slightly more opening but everybody opens it a little bit in the backstroke it squares up the squared impact and then closes a little bit coming through so with all great putters we're seeing that face open and close when that happens the toe of the putter is moving a little bit faster than the heel of the putter so if I hit two balls when I make contact I should see this outside of this toe ball go a little bit farther than this inside ball so if I go ahead and hit one here and I'm gonna hit it toward the hole but I'm actually not going to make any of these probably make any of these but I'm looking to see if that outside ball went just a little bit faster you can see those were pretty even so that means my heel on my toe we're moving pretty similar speed if I grab one and I move with a lot more of the toe so I move the toe much faster we're gonna see that toe ball is going to outrace the heel lie quite a bit so it jumped out another three or four inches in front now if I'm doing it incorrectly then I'm really holding off that release and I'm trying to guide that ball in there that's the worst thing we can do in putting we're gonna see that he'll starts to guide it toward there I'm really holding off on this and my heel kind of outraces my toe that's one of the worst things you can do in putting so in this one we'll notice the inside ball really jumps out in front and we'll see that he'll one just cut out a little bit there so it's just a fine-tuned difference if your balls are even that's completely fine if the toe ball is going a little bit more that's great too but what we don't want to have is that heel ball racing way out in front but we don't want a lot of difference we don't want to see the toe going one time and then the heel ball going one time and then the toe ball going one time I want to get nice and even try to hit 10 or 15 of these putts with even strokes with the toe ball just barely out racing the hill ball now here's another big mistake I see when players are reading their putts are way too close to the golf ball now from here it's almost like I'm looking straight down at the golf ball at a sea of green I really can't see the break if you want to accurately read the break we got to go farther back you'll notice as we start to look at some pictures from 30 or even 40 feet behind this golf ball it becomes much more apparent which way this overall green is sloping now I can easily see this putts gonna break to the right whereas when I was closer it's a little tougher to see the plumb-bob one of my favorite surefire hacks to read putts correctly the cool thing about this is it's based on cold hard science it's the same way you would plumb up a house you hold that string down to see if your frame is perfectly straight up and down we're doing the same thing for putting if we do this correctly it's going to be perfectly accurate to telling us if the putts going to break to the right or to the left if we do it incorrectly that's when the problems are going to come up so the first thing I need to do is I mean you step behind this putt I need to have the center of my feet the golf ball on the hole all in one perfectly straight line if I'm standing over to the side one way or the other this isn't gonna work then I'm going to grab the putter really loosely in my two fingers so it can swivel freely and I'm going to put the bottom of the shaft completely covering the golf ball then the top of the shaft is either going to be the left of the hole or to the right of the hole if it's a breaking putt now here the putter shaft is to the left of the hole that means this putt is going to break to the right that's due to the slope of the green so when you hold up this putter it's not going to be even with the slope of this if I came over to the other side of the hole then it would be going the opposite way the shaft would be to the right side of the hole and the putt would break to the left from that way if I have a dead straight putt both the ball and the hole are going to be in a straight line so this is really cool when you're trying to figure out does a putt break to the right right does it break to the left I'm not really sure now we've got a surefire way based on science to know without a shadow of it out all right so take these five budding hacks you're gonna get the riskiness out of your stroke you're gonna feel a lot more confident and you're going to be able to better read the Greens most importantly we're going to drain a lot more putts now if you want to be a great putter we have to groove that putting stroke in this video we talked about how to get rid of that wrist enos but how do we get a stroke that happens the same way over and over again that way when the pressure is on it holds up under the gun that's exactly what I'm gonna show you in this next video I'm gonna play a preview of one of my best videos to groove your putting stroke go ahead and click the card that pops up on your screen or a link down below in the description let's go ahead and get to work that way you become automatic let's get started hi guys and welcome to the top speed golf puttin system in this video we're going to talk about the stroke itself it's one of the first fundamentals I think to have a really good consistent struggles we have to set up to the ball in the same way every time what I like to do is I like to have my eyes directly over top of the ball over top of the target line and I have a great little putting mirror here made by eye line that I use a lot to help me get lined up and it's simply got a black line going down the center off so what I'm looking down I want to see my eyes directly on this black line and I want my lead eye almost on the back of the ball all the way down the shaft to be in one straight line so if you're looking at this as I set up if you look draw a line up from the shaft that should be splitting my forearms and they're gonna be lined up with that shaft and what that's going to allow me to do is take a lot of wrist out of the stroke you

Channel: Top Speed Golf - Clay Ballard

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Length: 8min 46sec (526 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 11 2019