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This is a Dr. Paul Hurrion inspired drill that is excellent for golfers who have a tendency to putt with overactive wrists and/or forearms. Specifically, this drill works on creating proper arm connection & promotes a more pendulum style motion. If you struggle to power your stroke with the larger muscles, this should quickly give you a feel for the proper "putting pivot" and hopefully, improve your consistency (especially in "pressure" situations).
Tags: Putt, Drill, Intermediate
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This is the chopstick drill for putting.
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So one of the big concepts in putting is kind of feeling more of the arm connection and
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basically avoiding putting it with too much wrists and putting it more with either your shoulders
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or your body.
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And a good way to feel your shoulders or your upper body involved in the putting stroke is
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I believe the original inventor was Paul Hurian, but you basically take two alignment sticks
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and then you rubber band them together, you know, a footer so down on the one end.
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And then you're going to take the alignment sticks and stick them in your armpits.
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And what this little lousy to do is this is going to allow us to feel some connection between
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my arms.
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And now the main version I'll use is you're going to put your hands on the outside here,
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but you can also do it with your hands a little bit more on the inside, depending on what
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you like to feel in your arms, more of a kind of a pushing activation or more of a pulling
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activation or more of a pushing activation.
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Now I like to have an alignment stick here.
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So if I get the club in my armpits and I find kind of a good comfortable length of arm
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bend, so not too straight and not behind my body, but comfortable length of arm bend.
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And then I bend and point this down at the alignment stick.
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This will just make sure that I can see kind of a symmetrical amount of curve.
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And this will allow me to feel what it's like to rotate my body on more of a stable axis
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pointing down at the golf ball.
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Couple common problems would be doing more of like a lateral movement like this or doing
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too much rotation, basically almost rotating around a vertical axis instead of my spine.
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So if I'm rotating my shoulders more around my spine or rotating my upper body around
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my spine, it will tend to have a symmetric slight curve compared to this stick on the
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ground.
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Or basically if I had a laser projecting out of this, that would follow the stick.
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And so the two short ends of the chopstick are arching just slightly similar to how the
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putter face will arc if I just make a stroke that is on plane or close to on plane.
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So once I have a feeling here, the neat thing about if you've got the rubber band together
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instead of holding them together is you can actually hit putts while feeling, hopefully
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this is even pretty close.
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So you can actually hit putts while feeling the chopstick connection.
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Kind of like that.
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So it's a good bridge drill that you can do at home for feeling the arms and the shoulders
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working together.
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But you can actually double with it making putts.
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It also helps with the visual ideas of what of the shoulder plane and the shoulder tilt
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and how your body is going to rotate more on plane instead of getting any funky either
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too much side bend, not an offer rotation or rotating at the wrong angle.
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So if you're struggling with feeling a little bit too much arms and especially wrists
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in your golf stroke, try the Paul Hurian's chopstick drill for improving your putter pivot.
