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Single Arm Putting Releases (my View)

The myview video for the single arm release drills for putting.

Tags: Putt, Release, Drill, Advanced, Intermediate

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Alright, so now we're going to do the first person view of the single arm releases.

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I think it's important to see how to actually practice this.

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And I always use my lead hand as my guide hand because it is superior to my right and pretty much every

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who I when it comes to putting.

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So here I'm taking my putting stroke and changing my hand position in the follow through.

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So that felt a little different when I changed positions for where my right hand would want to go on its own.

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I noticed I didn't take a, notice that I didn't take a practice swing or a backswing on that last one because I had an image in my brain that was very vivid of where I wanted the putter to go.

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So I just imagine I was pushing my hand there from the setup position.

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Now I'm going to check the backswing to figure out what I would have done differently on the backswing.

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Now for me that feels like my right hand pretty much stayed in place as it rotated back instead of swinging back.

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So that was a little better one right there.

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I think this was the best of all where I really got the right peck involved and

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checked my hand position and it looked like they were about the same.

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So that's a quick way to go through the right hand versus left hand release.

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So that's the right hand versus left hand release.

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Basically it's just practicing your putting stroke with one hand at a time.

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Trying to make both hands trace the same path is the best way to put it.

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So whatever my left hand is doing my right hand should do if I want to be a good putter.

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And so I have to notice the subtle differences between the two.

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Takes a little bit of practice but it can be very, very valuable for smoothing out your stroke.

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So here I am going through again checking right hand versus left hand.

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Notice that right hand that time the risk got a little bit involved.

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So I'm using the left hand and saying okay that's where I want my shoulder to go.

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Now you'll notice as you watch this clip that I only hit three balls at a time.

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I'm not a big fan of hitting ball after ball after ball because you'll pretty much it's almost like cheating for a test.

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This force forces me to have a little bit more time in between each shot to kind of think about things and let my body imagine

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or replay what's going on so that I can do it first or do it correctly the first time the next time.

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So you'll see I just go back and forth working on pretty much not really worried about aiming at a hole.

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I'm just working on getting my hands to make the same movement.

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And for me I always use my left hand as the guide but that's my personal tendency.

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You may want to start by experimenting with both and then you may find that your right hand is a better guide for the left hand.

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Like one of my friends back home.

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So here's a great demonstration on how to do the single arm releases.

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I hope that gives you a little bit of insight into how you can practice that when you're working on your own game.