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Arm connection - set up at waist height with arms on rib cage and practice strokes at this height - this will give you a better feeling of swinging the club with your big muscles rather than your arms and hands. Start by resting your upper arms on your rib cage so that your arms are soft but connected to your body. Keeping minimal tension in your arms, rotate your upper body back and forth. As you get a feeling for the muscles in- involved in this movement, lower your arms by bending at the hips. Make sure to keep the connection between your upper arms and your ribs. You should feel the same muscles working when you are standing tall as when you are bent in your normal set up posture.
Tags: Putt, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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Okay, the first drill for building a proper putter face and putter path control, I call finding
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the right connection or finding connection between your body and the club.
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So one of the biggest problems that I see is that most amateurs tend to put with just their
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arm and shoulder muscles or so they just kind of swing their arms and everything else
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moves around.
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What we want to do is we want the rotation to actually occur more or less in the middle of
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your body or sorry in the middle of your rib cage.
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So kind of above the belly button below the neck right and there that's where we want
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most movements to come from.
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So one way to figure this out is if you hold the putter up and you just let your forearms
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or you just let your elbows kind of rest on your rib cage, if you were to rotate in this
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position flexing your knees so that you can keep your lower body stable, you'll feel a lot
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more of your kind of upper and mid back and you'll feel a lot more of your abdominals
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working.
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And the reason for this is because the weight is so far away from me I have to use the
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big muscles to control it where in the golf swing because the putter is so close to my
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center when I'm turning I don't need to use these big muscles.
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I can just rely on my small muscles and my arms and shoulders but that's not very efficient
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for building a proper art.
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So again one way just kind of rest those forearms there and as you rotate back and forth you'll
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start to get a feeling of what it's like to have the larger muscles control the putting
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stroke and then you can slowly work your way down until the putter is resting on the ground
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trying to feel the same movement and the same muscles controlling the stroke.
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So I call that one arms connection.
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I hope you enjoy it.
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I hope you feel which muscles should control the majority of your putting stroke.
