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Okay, so the first key to starting a put online is having a stable anchor having lower

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body stability.

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And basically what I mean by that is I don't want your hips or your pelvis or anything

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below your waist to move during the putting stroke.

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If you take a look at YouTube and you look at some of the best putters in the world, what

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you'll see is that they're going to keep their hips relatively square or relatively stable

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during the entire putting stroke.

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But I typically see with a lot of amateurs as they take the putt in the follow-through,

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sorry, in the thru stroke or the down stroke, the lower body is actually going to lead

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or open up.

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What that will do and what that is akin to is if I had this putters swinging and here's

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my stable center that it's swinging around.

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If this stable center is rotating as it's swinging, I'm going to have a lot of kind of inherent

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variability to where the face is going to be pointed.

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That's why it makes it so difficult to get the ball to start online.

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So most of the time I have players who can resolve this issue simply by increasing the amount

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of feedback because you may not be aware that your lower body is moving.

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So the first thing you want to do is you want to check in a mirror.

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So I'm going to pretend this camera is my mirror and I'm going to get this out of here.

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I'm going to get set up so that I would be facing and putting towards the mirror.

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You can do this if you have a full length mirror either in your bedroom or a hotel room.

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What you're going to do is you're going to take notice of something in the background and

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you're going to see what your thighs are pointing at.

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In this case from the camera's point of view, they're pointing more or less at this black

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line.

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Then after I take my stroke, I'm going to check in this follow-through position that they're

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still pointing at that same place because if they're rotating open either in the backswing

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or in the follow-through, again, that's going to cause some of this inherent inconsistency.

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Some other ways that you can practice it are to increase the level of sensitivity for

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your feet.

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So any unstable object is going to make you more aware of when you shift weight.

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So here I have a couple of these dynodisks that you can get at perform better or any other

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sporting good store.

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So you would stand on here.

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It's going to be very difficult for me to have perfectly stable lower body but in the follow-through,

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if I were to shift, I would have to have a much major adjustment and so therefore you would

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see and you would feel that your lower body was moving.

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You can also use either a half foam roller to stand on or one of these swim noodles works

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pretty well.

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I love these because they fit in your golf bag and they're just about the right density

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that if you place them under your arch, you will feel if you go heel toe or if you have

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any type of forward and backward movement, a little bit less sensitive on the side

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to side.

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So you can put this in your bag and you can practice either when you're on the road or

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beforehand.

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Just try to find a stable position to put from and then go ahead and take practice strokes,

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making sure that you're not feeling any weight shift.

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Another option that you can do is you can take shoe boxes and fill them with golf balls

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and stand in practice in your bare feet because then you get a lot of sensitivity.

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But because you can't really do that one on the golf course, I tend to prefer these two.

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So give that a try.

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Double check your lower body stability and don't move on until the next step until you

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can consistently, at least half the time, we'll call that consistently.

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Until you can consistently keep your lower body stable during the pungs rope.