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This drill is building a confident three foot stroke.

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Um, so I, I have some students

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who really struggle on the short puts,

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especially the three to four footers.

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Um, those ones, uh, that I think, um,

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you can see the hole out of the corner of your eye.

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So it can be, um, kind of daunting,

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you feel like you should make it.

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Uh, a strategy that I use for these three

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to four foot putts is basically figuring out the shortest

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stroke you can make confidently

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and rehearsing that, um,

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so confidently meaning some good acceleration while

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maintaining my, my overall good structure.

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Um, what I find that a lot

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of golfers do on these short putts, if you struggle with it,

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is either having some body rotation

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or a drag of the putter, which tends to open the face, um,

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or too big of a stroke and then kind of slowing it down.

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And as you do the putter face closes

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and you tend to hit some poles.

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So it boils down to club face control.

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Um, but I find that golfers struggle with club face control,

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um, when their tempo isn't very good

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because they don't have a measured length

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of backswing to go back to.

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So the task is we're gonna try to make the shortest

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but, uh, kind of a confident

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or a assertive stroke without moving my legs

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and without using a whole lot of wrist.

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So I'm basically gonna get here

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and my, I'll rehearse it a couple times.

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So this is my shortest confident stroke.

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And that looks something like that typically goes about, um,

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three feet on a, like a 10 stim green, um,

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slightly uphill like this scenario here.

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So this is gonna be my baseline for more,

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most short put short puts.

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And I'm training that if I make this stroke,

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my start line is gonna be good enough

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that if I aim it right, I should feel like I don't have

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to necessarily look at the hole.

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I just have to make the good confident str stroke

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and the ball's gonna go in.

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Now, it also gives me a reference.

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There will be times where you have a really sneaky downhill

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putt and I still don't want you to decelerate.

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So you have two options. You can either make a shorter than

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comfortable stroke or a slower than normal tempo,

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but still kind of keeping that, that, uh,

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good assertive quality to it.

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So the shorter stroke would look, that's about as small

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as I can do that's not comfortable.

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So it's about half the distance of my comfort stroke

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and that goes about a foot and a half,

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or I could make my comfortable stroke

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and I'm just gonna slow it down just a, a little bit, kind

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of play with the tempo.

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And so they go about the same distance.

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I can't say I love one more than the other.

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Uh, but there are two different ways

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that you can adjust your normal three or four foot stroke.

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Um, cut it in half.

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So basically, if I have a short putt, if I'm anywhere

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around the hole here, I'm just gonna be making,

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I'm gonna trust my aim

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and then I'm gonna make that, that stroke.

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What I find that bad putters do is they tend to get up there

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and they try and kind of guide it in, in some fashion.

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We're trying to take that out by practicing these,

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uh, three footers.

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All right, so now if I want to take that drill

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and apply it here, I'm basically going to place it so

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that the, the yardstick is going to the middle of the hole.

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Um, and I'm gonna back it up just slightly so

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that my putter has about the right amount of room.

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I'm putting it just inside the end.

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So now if I was going to make that short stroke,

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might have aimed a little left

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or might have pulled it for the camera.

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Let's see if we can do a little bit better one. There we go.

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Um, so that was more center face or center path.

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Um, but practicing these and getting really comfortable

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and doing some type of drill, like the ring

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of fire while applying basically the same

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stroke every single time.

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Not trying to change the stroke and guide it,

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but just trying to groove a comfortable three

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to four foot stroke and then applying

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that when you're on, on the course.

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I tend that, uh, helps with a lot of golfers

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who get a little bit shaky on these almost must make putts.