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Tom's Featured Tip: Putting - Line Lockedness
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
Many golfers can fall prey to "Line Lockedness".
That's a phrase I heard many years ago that described the putting malady of falling in love with the line of a putt so much that the player forgets about the speed, usually resulting in a putt that falls short of the target.
Here's a simple way to nail down the line of the putt without having the process interfere with the speed that you want to roll the ball.
First of all, if you are a pure instinct putter - a player that only concentrates on the speed and lets the line take care of itself by subconscious instinct - this tip doesn't apply. The reason is that there's not much conscious decision making on the aimline at address with pure instinct putting. A pure instinct putter stares at the target and lets the brain make the stroke alignment automatically.
For those that can putt that way, more power to you - but I really can't recall any professional player that does that all the time in the modern era. When you see Jordan Speith look at the hole while executing a short putt, that's what he's doing, and I've seen a few senior players execute long lag putts that way also. Instinct putting is also a hallmark of the "face on" putting style, and interestingly, rookie PGA Tour Player Bryson DeChambeau is considering switching back to that method. He used it successfully for a period of time for all of his putting when he played college golf.
Every time I mention the "face on" putting style, it makes me want to pull out one of my many long putters and work on it again, but I'm resisting the urge.
This tip applies to vast majority of players that take the time to aim the putt along some aimline before making the distance calculation in their pre shot routine.
Here's a way to get the line and the speed without getting "line lockedness".
- During you pre-shot routine, after considering the break of the putt, decide on the aimline that you want to
start your putt on.
- From behind the ball looking at the hole, pick a very specific spot 16 inches in front of the ball on that aimline.
- Next, from behind the ball while still facing the hole and looking at the hole, make three practice strokes with what
you feel would be the right
stroke length and power for the putt.
- Then get alongside the ball several inches away from it, and while looking at the hole take three more practice strokes
feeling the correct stroke length and power for the stroke you want to execute.
- Now set up over the ball and carefully align your putterface behind the ball aimed at the spot 16 inches ahead of the ball
on your aimline.
- After the putterface is lined up perfectly with the aimpoint 16 inches ahead of the ball, take care to not twist the
putterhead and
then forget about your aimline. You heard me correctly, your aimline is now set so forget about it.
- Next,
- Stare at the spot that represents the distance you want the putt to roll out to for three seconds,
- Glance down at the ball for one second,
- Stare again at the spot that represents the distance you want the putt to roll out to for three seconds,
- Glance down at the ball and execute your stroke in 1.5 seconds, no longer than that.
- Make sure that you stay in posture for a second or two after impact to get the full rollout distance value from your stroke.
Follow this routine and you won't have "line lockedness" again.
Try it, you'll like it.
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Tom
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Tom's Bonus Tip: Short Game Quick Tip
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
"Handsy" swings pretty much guarantee poor results.
Try to keep the strong muscles of the forearms, wrists, and hands out of your short game swings as much as possible.
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