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The SECRET putting change Jack Nicklaus WISHED he had made to his game!
okay so you've watched the pushing versus pulling you've learned now to move your big muscles in your upper body to move the putter back and forth instead of trying to control it with your arms and hands which is impossible to do consistently so now what was Jack's big secret what was it that he wished he could change in his putting stroke if he could go back and do it all over again well the thing that he said is that he wished he had switched to left hand low now at first when he said that I was kind of like well that's kind of weird why would he say that but now that you've gone through the pushing versus pulling videos and you understand how to rock your shoulder blades to get rid of the yips then it all of a sudden starts to make sense because if the left hand is low it's in a better position to pull right so we know we want to pull the putting the putter through the putting stroke instead of trying to push it because that's what causes this wrist to break down this wrist to flex and that's what causes the yips and you can see as I'm doing this the putter face is closing and going all over the place well we don't want to do that obviously anytime you're pushing from behind it's again like you're trying to back that trailer down the highway at high speed the putter has to be moving very very little and very consistently for you to become a good putter and so when you're doing this kind of stuff on every shot and just a little tiny amount of flinch well that can deflect the putter face one two three four five degrees that's enough to miss the putt miss the hole completely from five feet so we want that putter face to be very quiet and very constant which means we're going to take all of this stuff out of the stroke and we're just going to focus on rocking our shoulder blades back and forth and that's it but to put the arms in a better position to allow for the putter to not be flinchy by not using our arms we want to put the right hand in a passive position and the left hand in a dominant position and what we mean by that is we want to take out as many angles in the left side as we can when you're like this and you're putting with a conventional grip i've got an angle on my left wrist and an angle on my left elbow and both of these things can easily break down in the stroke and even just doing this is going to help shut the face but it can also add loft which is going to cause the ball to hop a little bit as it hops it can start bouncing offline very easily and as you add loft it's going to change how far the ball goes just like with a driver if you have less loft on a driver and you launch it properly the ball is going to go further than if you have a lot of loft so a lot of times when people struggle with distance control it's because i see them popping it with their right wrist and they're literally adding loft to the putter at impact and it's also weakening the quality of the strike and that also leads to inconsistent distance control we want a really solid strike on the ball every time and that putter face loft you can't be adding loft dynamically a lot through the hitting area to do that so to make all of this simple we take all of these angles out we want to get that left arm essentially as straight as we can now it doesn't have to be ramrod straight but you don't want a lot of big angles like this so as we put the left hand into a low position that takes all of these angles out and so now the left hand can just follow the shoulder blade glide back and through and now as the left hand's in this dominant position you can start to feel that you're pulling the putter head through the stroke instead of pushing it through the stroke and it's very very quiet and consistent notice that my left wrist is not breaking down my left elbow is not changing and i'm just focusing on moving my shoulder blades back and forth here so now the right wrist we're going to put into a passive position that's going to have an angle here and an angle here but you're going to hold on to the putter very very lightly so it's not really an issue as your right wrist is not going to be doing anything in the stroke you don't want to be hitting at the ball with the right wrist the left arm relatively straight now my right hand is really just here to help stabilize the putter and keep it more quiet and constant throughout the whole stroke rather than trying to hit the right hand it's just a stabilizer and it's helping keep the putter moving in sequence and in sync with the body as the shoulder blades rock back and through since the right shoulder blades being pulled back we need to have that right hand attached to the club now as far as the grip goes what you really want to try and do is get the left hand into a relatively weak position now why do you want to do that because again it puts this wrist angle in a position where it can't really bend to add loft or shut the club face or open the club face so as you get the left wrist into a little bit of a weak position we kind of want to get this line formed up through the left forearm and the same with this right hand so it's going to be slightly opposed i'm going to exaggerate this but this would be opposed and now the wrists can't fight each other because they can't they're in positions where they just literally can't flex so as you get them opposed it helps take your wrists even further out of the stroke which is again if you struggle with the yips distance control getting the ball to start on line the last thing you want to do is try and use your wrists in the stroke so as we get these hands into a slightly weak position this also helps pull our arms into our rib cage which helps us focus more on pulling our shoulder blades back and through when your arms are out like this it's really easy just to move from your shoulders and then the putter can go all over the place because you have a lot of mobility up here we want to pull our arms down and in so that just our rib cage is rocking that putter back and forth you can see how little movement is involved here versus if i have my arms out like this well now i can kind of do all kinds of goofy stuff once i get my hands into this weaker position left hand into a dominant position all i need to do now pull my right shoulder blade back left shoulder blade through notice how quiet the putter face is here and as we look at this from down the line right shoulder blade back left shoulder blade through right shoulder blade back left shoulder blade through notice that my putter not really doing anything it's just rocking back and forth i'm not trying to make my putter travel on any particular path or plane i am just getting set up correctly and rocking my shoulder blades back and through so if you can get this motion then all of a sudden your putts are going to start dropping they're going to start starting online you're going to start getting consistent solid contact and you are going to have a head start because you're going to change the one thing in your putting stroke that jack nicholas himself wished he'd changed and could have started over from the beginning with
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