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Watch me walk you through a short warm up session of how to check your distances for the day. A week of doing this at your home course will have you pretty dialed in, and then you can make adjustments on the practice green when playing at other courses.
Tags: Putt, Backswing, Transition, Beginner
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Alright, so now I'm going to go through a brief demonstration of how we control or learn
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to dial in your speed.
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So right now I'm doing the first position, which is basically each putting stroke.
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I'm taking my hands back to the inside of my right thigh from my perspective.
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Now, you'll notice I am not looking up in between these balls.
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The reason being, I don't want to see where they go.
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So I don't want to have my brain adjust.
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I took my normal grip, I took the stroke, and then I just replaced the ball and did
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three of them bang bang, trying to have the same amount of acceleration.
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If you remember from the other videos or from the manual, I talked about finding gravity,
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which is finding your unique acceleration rate, which is basically using the best form
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you can to create acceleration as aggressively as you can.
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So that was my demonstration there.
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And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to pace from where I struck those puts to pretty
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much the average of where they finished.
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Okay?
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So two, three, four, inside thigh on this green was about a five-paste put.
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Now my home course, that's a seven-paste put, so I know these greens are going to be playing
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slow.
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And now what you'll see is I'm going to do the exact same thing.
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I'm going to go back to the other direction.
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Now I intentionally picked a flat put to test this on, but because of things like green,
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it is possible that my readings would be a little off.
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So I always double check and go one direction of the flat put and then the second direction
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of the flat put.
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And they should be about the same distance.
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So we got one, two, three, four, and a half.
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So four and a half, five.
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I'm pretty comfortable that those are in the same ballpark.
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So that would be how you would calibrate the distance.
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Now you want to do that for if you're using body landmarks, you're going to use inside
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thigh, outside thigh, right pocket.
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If you're using the putter head, you're going to go big toe, pinky toe, six inches outside
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toe, foot outside toe somewhere in there.
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Or if you're not very spatially aware, you can put t's on the ground.
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Just one putter head with back and you can go one putter head back, two putter head back,
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three putter head back for et cetera.
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And that'll help you dial in your distance control.
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So that you have a few stock distances.
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Those are going to be the big green lights when you're walking on the course or when you're
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on a hole and you know, hey, I've got a five-paste putt.
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I know exactly how hard to hit it.
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All I have to do is get the read right and it will go in.
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So that's how you do the pacing of the distance control.
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Just make sure you don't look up in between these shots and check both sides to make sure
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that grain and slope are not affecting your distance.