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This drill is using an alignment stick for lower body stability.

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So one of the ten insup really good putters is very little to no movement from the belly

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button down.

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So for those who are a little bit more visual, you can't quite feel if your lower body

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is moving.

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I use this drill a lot.

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I'm going to take an alignment stick and place it through the belt loops.

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I've got a stick on the ground just to help my visual awareness.

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So now I'm going to get into my normal setup position.

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And my goal is to make a stroke and then I'm going to check to make sure that the stick

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stayed parallel to the stick on the ground.

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What I commonly see and I'm not going to the whole, I tend to do this on two different

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length putts.

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I'll tend to do this on longer putts and I'll tend to do this on really short putts.

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Some golfers use too much hips for speed.

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So they do kind of a shorter stroke and then they'll turn their whole body kind of like

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this.

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Usually you have more of a pronounced follow through like that.

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So that will be more of a speed issue.

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And that's where I want to get comfortable making a really big stroke and having minimal

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lower body movement.

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The other one is it's more of a rhythm thing.

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So on short putts golfers will tend to get set up and then it's just kind of a sloppiness

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where the lower body is helping create the rhythm of bringing the hands through.

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Instead of doing it more from the shoulder blades, the shoulder girdle and the ribs.

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So for those I will try to do more of a short stroke and focus on the finished position

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where I'm really getting myself kind of feeling that my upper body is almost turned

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past my lower body as opposed to my upper body and my lower body turning together.

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I may also feel that my shoulders have turned more down on a plane closer to at the golf

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ball as opposed to turning more level.

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So if you are analyzing your putting stroke and you're seeing on video a lot of knee and

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lower body action, this is a really simple but powerfully effective drill for helping

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quiet down your lower body.