- Well hello, Adam Bazalgette here.
Founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
PGA Teacher Of The Year.
Today's subject, golf long putting tips.
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So, golf long putting tips.
I'm gonna give you three tips
that if you'll follow these and work on these a little bit,
you'll have much better distance control
on those all-important long putts.
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Okay, as my first tip for really long putts,
sort of two-fold tip, if you like.
One, stand a little bit taller
and two, soften those wrists up a bit.
Let me make a stroke here.
Now, certainly, I am not advocating being wristy
with this stroke.
Putter is heavy, though.
And if you wanna have some energy coming off the club,
soften your wrists enough that you can just feel the weight
of the club playing a little bit
with no active wrist movement.
And I think you'll find that standing a little bit taller
creates more freedom of motion.
Just easier to make a big stroke when you do that.
Now, the second one is relative to contact.
Let's have a close-up and listen to these two putts.
How many times have I been playing golf with someone
or giving them golf lessons probably
and they hit a putt that's way way short
from a long distance.
They say, "I don't think I hit it hard enough."
And I'm thinking I don't know if you hit it hard enough
because you hit it so unsolidly.
I mean the ball just bounced off the club.
There's no way the ball's gonna get to the holes
hitting it like that.
But you know what, they don't typically notice it.
Now let me tell you,
I knocked that a little bit by the hole.
Don't take it for granted
when you make a great big putting stroke
that you're gonna hit it solidly.
You heard the sound of those two putts?
Educate yourself.
Just go to the green and hit some long putts
without a target, let's say.
Educate yourself as to what the sound
of your putter sounds like.
Just practice hitting it solidly.
It isn't that difficult
but you've gotta pay a little bit of attention
and even though the ball may just bounce
a fraction on a long putt coming off the club,
it really shouldn't have any great big bunnyhop or hurdle.
Let's try one more here.
And if you can make consistently solid contact,
your odds of getting good distance control
or developing it go way up.
Okay, number three.
Never think of how hard should I hit this putt.
That is a very poor way to go about it
and I doubt you'll get any consistency there
unless you have a lot of talent and practice.
Certainly in a certain sense of the word
it's how hard to hit the putt
but your feeling is always stay on a rhythmical pendulum
and match the size of that pendulum
to the size of the job at hand
and that's what determines how far it goes.
Not so much how you hit it.
Now big misunderstanding.
Hang with me for a sec.
Accelerating through the putt.
How many times have you heard that?
That is not what should happen.
A true pendulum does have acceleration
but the acceleration is back here.
It reaches top speed and then it's decelerating.
That's a natural thing in physics.
That's what you want here
because if you do that you're hitting the putt at top speed
and most stability.
You do not wanna be gaining pace
and accelerating through the putt.
You won't have much touch.
So practice these three things.
Let me give you one other tip here.
Let me hit a putt.
I've got my height.
I can tell I'm hitting it solidly.
My wrist feels soft.
And practice sometimes without a target.
I promise you.
Just stand there and make some putts.
Relax.
Get a little rhythm.
Listen to the sound.
Have the poise to do that.
Most people, it's always target.
They're so distracted by outcome
they really don't build anything into the system
once you like your stroke
it feels rhythmical,
then go to the targets and see how you do.
Well I hope that helps you with golf long cutting tips.
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