7 Drills For BETTER PUTTING

what's up welcome back to channel my name's Andrew I'm trying to get my game back in shape and I'm putting the ball so poorly in the last couple money games that I've played at my course we're gonna have a little pudding day and we're gonna try to fix this and hopefully help your party [Music] like I was saying back in the garage we've got a weekly game here now on Fridays at Southampton which is awesome because I'm trying to get my game back in competitive shape it's it's no surprise that I lost the plot I may have worked really hard on my physical game after the injury but my mental game is terrible and I just struggle to play golf competitively in the focus and to think so I've been doing a lot of work in 2020 so far on my routine on my focus on my my thought process out there but what's kind of fallen down by the wayside is my putting I'm putting like cuttings usually one of the strongest parts of my game so today's video I'm gonna take you through just a bunch of the drills and games and things that I do throughout the year when my putting is getting a little bit wonky if you will so this is a bit of like a putting boot camp first thing I'm doing right now is I'm actually putting my old putter in the bag for my practice maybe I'll play with it on Friday I'm not sure I love spider X but I'm putting my old putter in the bag right now for all of my work for a few reasons one it's really nice to just look at something different I've been missing a lot of putts I'm just making bad strokes of Spider X so looking at something different that's obviously a good thing the way that this putter works it's a little more upright and it just keeps my hands a little bit higher and what's been happening with Spider X I noticed my hands have been getting a little bit low the putter has been getting a little off track and way inside so now I've got a different putter in the bag that keeps the hands a little bit higher which is what I want and it helps me get the putter tracking back a little more straight than this little bad stroke that I'm making and this is something that I always use when I'm struggling with my putting is I'm gonna get on some sort of training aids some people use a mirror some people use alignment sticks like really it doesn't really matter which one you're using but I love the Visio cutting template it keeps my stroke in the proper arc and there's a lot of check points on here that are really gonna give me feedback if I'm doing things wrong I'm getting it kind of yanked a little on the inside so I have T's on the inside of the arc so if I make a bad stroke I hit these T's and then i'ma hit them coming back and then got a gate right here to make sure I'm starting the putt online and there's a lot of instant feedback if I don't make a good stroke try to make let's say 20 of these let's see there I hit the tee I hit this tee right here kind of on on the back so it's just a little this is the stroke just isn't pure is a little jerky a real good key for this it's much like on a golf course it's about like clearing your mind and just letting it happen if you're thinking too much about the technical things about missing the tea or start online you're getting in your own head and then you're just gonna make bad strokes and that's oftentimes what happens out on the golf course that's kind of what I've been doing on the golf course is thinking about my stroke and just making bad strokes but that's why the next one is really gonna get us away from thinking about our stroke and just just make it happen q time-lapse 420 that's 20 and I mean it's hard to have seen it in the time-lapse but what doing this over a bit of time does is it advertently makes you stop moving stop thinking because the minute you're moving trying to look at it you're missing these putts and it's it's testing your patience but when you start executing it feels really really good now then move into something that's a lot more feel based and hardly technical whatsoever so the next little drill or setup I'll do when I'm really struggling with my pudding is notice how I'm just making strokes looking at you and they're pretty free-flowing not even paying attention to them just letting them happen so that's why I move from here I'm just going to take some strokes hit some putts looking at the hole and just let my natural athletic instinct take over not think about stroke not think about anything but just kind of set it up and then and your field becomes really really good like I hit that one off the heel and I could tell right away when you're not looking at the putter head you can really feel it I think that one was dead off the center that felt so good so this is not necessarily about how many makes this is just maybe hit X amount of putts while looking at the hole just to get a feel of solid contact seeing the puck go in if it goes in and just not thinking about your putting stroke that one was great it didn't go in but I felt like I made a really really good stroke so hitting putts looking at the hole it's very Bob Rotella but it's it's very very good it just gets you thinking about everything but your stroke maybe 50 of these just to get a feel of all those good things and one thing that say if I were to take video of this or look at this video my stroke ends up getting a lot shorter and more accelerating whereas sometimes when I start putting poorly I get really long back and just really kind of out of sync stroke if that felt so good whatever a little high on the line now we've moved on to drill and number four I'm a left-hand dominant putter so I'm gonna hit a handful of putts left-handed when I am cutting really bad I can't control the putter just with one hand it starts going like this it just gets really really nasty so I'm gonna hit one hand putts and again it kind of calms me down the stroke get some better rhythm to it I stay a lot stiller and surprise surprise seem to make a lot of putts so whatever hand you are dominant in this one hand drill Tiger is a right-handed putter and you've seen over the years he's always come back to hitting putts one-handed just to kind of get things in order I like it obviously with my left hand then throw the ball the roll just seems so good I'll put my hand behind my back or I'll put on my shoulder just to make sure I'm not kind of tipping up I don't do all of these on any given day but I'll do a selection of them because I think if I were to do a full day of all of these drills it would just get kind of convoluted and what you gain from one particular drill over another just gets all mixed together so typically I'll do like a nade like the putty mat or a tea gate and one-handed for sure because I know my miss I know when I get going that is when I stop stroking it well so I need that left hand to get back in control and this drill is probably one of my favorites drill or game number five this one is like to call the Nick Faldo anyone's a little bit older or more my age or remembers Nick Faldo when he was really in his prime he used to hit putts and like hold it for the longest longest time so this is one right stretch it out a little closer to ten feet and I'm basically not looking up until I hear that puck go in didn't do it but this is something that again gets the body really really quiet there's a lot to gain from it but we're not paying too much attention to whether or not they go in so whether you want to pick a spot you're looking at or just stay super cognizant of staying still I like to think of keeping my buttons on my shirt still whatever works for you you just want to stay super still and then and then not move after impact this one you can kind of do it by how many makes where not paying attention to the mix but like in terms of how long you want to do it for X amount of balls or maybe 10 makes 20 makes what-have-you just whatever length of time that keeps you really focused on what you're doing and that you'll gain something from doing this drill this drill we'll call it the stick drill it's called whatever you want a little bit more on the technical side but there's a lot of feel to gain from it I'm gonna take an alignment stick and I'm gonna hold it alongside of my putter because what I want when i putt I want the butt end of my grip pointing at my bellybutton like I said earlier my hands start getting kind of low when I get a little sloppy and when my hands get low it's easy for the putter head to get on the inside and just the rhythm to get out of whack and all kinds of bad stuff happens so what I'll do is I'll take an alignment stick just hold it here essentially an extension of the grip I'm not gonna put it in my bellybutton I'm just gonna point it at my bellybutton because what I want feel like the grip essentially points at my bellybutton the whole time not like a belly putter I never used a belly putter but what Dan and I have done to my stroke over the last couple of years keeping the hands a little more upright and allowing me to feel like I'm almost like you're gonna push draw with putts and that's it comes back to pointing at the belly button so I'll hit putts like this and if I get out of whack the alignment sticks gonna hit the stick if the rhythm gets all jerky so there's just a few things that are really good really good to gain from this drill you didn't hear anything you just heard the strike but now if I get a little jerky or a little poor rhythm you should hear the the stick hit the shot or not I guess I'm just making good strokes that's a good sign because when I was doing this like a week ago you would hear this stick hit this stroke right at impact so it means I was doing something at impact whereas now things are a lot calmer and yes this is how exactly how I want to finish I understand the grips not pointing at my belly button anymore it's a feel I don't want it obviously like this but it's just a good feel of keep it points at the belly button and then you release it so this is technical but it's also a feel thing and I I've really fallen in love with this drill of lately it's just helped me feel exactly what I want I could do it just the left hand it just gets the putter moving the way I want it to move final thing for our cutting bootcamp is grab your putter grab one ball and essentially all I'm doing is I'm just throwing the golf ball down random spa kind of inside like a 25 foot circle from the hole hit the putt go through my routine hit the putt and I want to make 10 whatever happens with that first putt go up to the hole pick it up knock it away boom some other direction 10 feet 20 feet whatever it is I just want to end my putting work real golf simulation so sometimes I might get myself a shorter one sometimes a longer one but I want to end with 10 makes and that's exactly what I'm going to do [Music] one thing I forgot to mention about that drill is it is a test for your mental because if you're hitting good putts and they're not going in it's very easy to get frustrated and once you get frustrated you're gonna start hitting bad putts and you're gonna be there for a long time to hit the number you set alright that's it I hope you enjoyed this video give it a thumbs up if you did subscribe if you're not subscribed hit that notification bell so you never miss a video and I'll see you in the next video peace [Music]