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In this video, PGA Professional Nick Drane talks about how to approach the length of your putting stroke for more consistency on the greens.

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Hi, my name's Nick Drane,

00:06 PGA professional and master fitting specialist

00:08 here at the Titleist Performance Center at Woburn.

00:11 In this video, we're gonna talk about

00:13 backswing and follow through length in putting.

00:16 A lot of common mistakes I see golfers make

00:18 is the misconception that the putter head

00:21 has to be accelerating into the golf ball.

00:24 This can lead to a few problems,

00:25 primarily distance control.

00:28 Secondary can be that face alignment at impact.

00:30 Are you able to start that golf ball

00:32 on your intended target line?

00:33 To give an example of what I see in a short backswing

00:36 and a long follow through to try and propel the ball

00:38 towards the target can also make it difficult

00:41 to maintain a square club face

00:43 towards your intended target line like so.

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00:47 So not only was I struggling for distance control

00:52 in that putt, I actually also pulled it to the left

00:55 as I tried to increase that club head speed into that putt.

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01:01 A couple of key fundamentals to help you improve

01:04 your distance control and your putting

01:06 would be to get a good sound set up

01:08 where you hold the putter nicely in the palms of your hands,

01:11 a nice wide base.

01:12 We wanna eliminate any unnecessary wrist movement

01:17 that's gonna give acceleration to that putter head.

01:19 I then gonna use my feet as a bit of a reference

01:22 for a length of stroke.

01:23 So if you watch my backswing and my follow through

01:25 are gonna be very similar in length.

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01:30 I'm able to maintain that control of that club face

01:35 and also better control my distance.

01:38 Obviously during a game of golf,

01:39 we're gonna be faced with putts of different lengths.

01:41 The key to being successful with the putting from distance

01:44 is maintaining a very similar length, backswing

01:47 and follow through through keeping a good tempo.

01:50 So each of us have our own rhythm or tempo built in,

01:54 finding what's right for you,

01:55 but just focusing on keeping that backswing

01:58 and follow through very similar in length

02:00 is gonna mean that you're gonna hit

02:01 those longer putts closer

02:03 and causing more two putts rather than three putts.

02:06 A really good drill to help you practice

02:07 your distance control would be to place a tee peg

02:10 at 10, 20 and 30 feet.

02:12 Then take a couple of golf balls,

02:14 practice putting to each tee peg,

02:16 see how close you can maintain that grouping.

02:18 This will really enhance your distance control

02:20 and also give you a feel for where your club face is aiming

02:24 at impact.

02:24 A really good visual to help you focus

02:26 on that club face control

02:27 is to think of a three ball window.

02:29 So we like that club face to be nice and square

02:32 through the three ball window

02:33 with the middle ball being the ball

02:35 that you're gonna impact.

02:36 That is gonna help you start that ball

02:38 on your intended target line.

02:40 The middle ball being my impact ball,

02:42 I'm just looking to keep that putter face nice and square

02:45 to those three golf balls.

02:47 A couple of key things to remember then,

02:49 focus on your distance control

02:50 through having a nice even back swing

02:52 and follow through length.

02:54 And you should see your distance control

02:55 and speed be a lot more consistent and lower your scores.

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