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The drill is full swing with the putter.

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So no, we're not working on the full swing.

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We're actually still working on the putting.

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But I find that a lot of golfers who struggle with distance control with their longer

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puts, it's because they're taking, they're not taking a long enough stroke.

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And so there's two different versions that I'll give people for doing this.

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But this is basically freeing up your brain into what's the furthest I could hit it.

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So you can see the large putting green that I have down below.

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I'll usually do this from one end or I'll do this back up this big hill.

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Because I think you should at least be able to hit it 100 feet or so if you're taking a full

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swing with your putter with good form.

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And that's the part that I stress.

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So good form means I'm not going to overuse my wrists and arms and I'm not going to overuse

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my legs.

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But I can overuse my shoulders and create a bigger stroke.

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I just have to keep my lower body and my wrists out of this power source.

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But I find that a lot of golfers have no idea how far they could hit a put.

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So then it's always a little bit of a guessing game game for the brain to figure out what

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percentage of their full shot would they want to do on any particular put.

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I think of it like if I only hit half wedges and I didn't know how far I could hit my

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50-60° wedge then knowing that well if I hit my 56° wedge 100 yards well about a half

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swing is about here and I tend to hit that somewhere 60-70.

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It helps my brain figure out the math of how big of a swing to take.

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So you're going to make sure that nobody's in your way and you're going to find a large

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section of the green and then you're going to practice taking full strokes.

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And just kind of eyeballing about how far you're able to hit that.

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I had a little bit extra lower body on that one but overall not too bad.

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You will see that these will end up, you know, closeish to each other and then what I'm

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going to do now that my brain has a little bit of a baseline is I'm going to try and do

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not a full swing but I'm going to bring it back maybe a three-quarter swing.

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So how far does my three-quarter putting stroke and that might be my comfortable length

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swing.

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Maybe when I'm doing the full swing it's a little bit outside of my comfort zone but still

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this information helps me figure out how big of a stroke I can comfortably make.

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This will especially help if you play on big greens where you have a lot of 60-70-80

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footers like the greens I grew up playing.

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So the first version is just kind of doing it willingly hitting it as harder comfortable

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as you can.

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The second version is where I work tempo into it and this is a little bit more of a challenge

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but what I want you to do is hit it as far as you can with a short follow-through as

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you can.

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So now I have to really get this feeling of kind of the putter dropping but I'm going

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to feel like there's almost a hard stop when the ball hits or when the club hits the ball.

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So now I'm going to do a long backswing to a short follow-through and the goal is I'm

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going to try and hit this put as far as I can with a short with as long a backswing and

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a short follow-through as I can.

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Not my best stroke will do one more just for my sake.

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Then you can take this phase of the drill.

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You can take this phase of the drill and you can apply it to hitting puts on your green

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which would basically be I want you to take as long a putting stroke with a short of follow-through

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as you can and try to get it to roll an appropriate distance.

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This is a while controlling a guide it while swinging it but also being prepared to stop

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it.

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Your decelerating it just slightly which allows you to have a little bit elevation in your

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touch.

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It's really hard to have touch if you're overexcelerating which is why one of my pet

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pews for people who struggle with distance control is really applying a rapid and especially

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late acceleration.

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I think of it as if I was tossing something underhand.

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It's reaching its maximum acceleration right about there and then it's just kind of coasting

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into the release.

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It would be really hard for me to have a distance control if I was speeding it up right

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to the end.

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So this drill or this kind of experiment of how big of a swing can I take helps you feel

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the weight of the club swinging which is going to ultimately help you improve your ability

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to develop touch.