How To Perfect Your Distance Control With Your Backswing And Follow Through

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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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00:00Hi, my name is Nick Drane, PGA professional and master fitting specialist here at the

00:09Titleist Performance Center at Woburn.

00:11In this video, we're going to talk about backswing and follow through length in putting.

00:16A lot of common mistakes I see golfers make is the misconception that the putter head

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

00:24This can lead to a few problems, primarily distance control.

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

00:30Are you able to start that golf ball on your intended target line?

00:33To give an example of what I see in a short backswing and a long follow through to try

00:38and propel the ball towards the target can also make it difficult to maintain a square

00:42club face towards your intended target line like so.

00:50So not only was I struggling for distance control in that putt, I actually also pulled

00:54it to the left as I tried to increase that club head speed into that putt.

01:02A couple of key fundamentals to help you improve your distance control and your putting would

01:06be to get a good sound set up where you hold the putter nicely in the palms of your hands,

01:11a nice wide base.

01:14You want to eliminate any unnecessary wrist movement that's going to give acceleration

01:18to that putter head.

01:19I'm then going to use my feet as a bit of a reference for a length of stroke.

01:23So if you watch, my backswing and my follow through are going to be very similar in length.

01:32I'm able to maintain that control of that club face and also better control my distance.

01:37Obviously, during a game of golf, we're going to be faced with putts of different lengths.

01:41The key to being successful with the putting from distance is maintaining a very similar

01:46length backswing and follow through through keeping a good tempo.

01:50So each of us have our own rhythm or tempo built in, finding what's right for you, but

01:55just focusing on keeping that backswing and follow through very similar in length is going

02:00to mean that you're going to hit those longer putts closer and causing more two putts rather

02:04than three putts.

02:05A really good drill to help you practice your distance control would be to place a tee peg

02:10at 10, 20 and 30 feet.

02:12Then take a couple of golf balls, practice putting to each tee peg, see how close you

02:16can maintain that grouping.

02:18This will really enhance your distance control and also give you a feel for where your club

02:22face is aiming at impact.

02:24A really good visual to help you focus on that club face control is to think of a three

02:28ball window.

02:29So we like that club face to be nice and square through the three ball window with the middle

02:34ball being the ball that you're going to impact.

02:36That is going to help you start that ball on your intended target line.

02:40The middle ball being my impact ball.

02:42I'm just looking to keep that putter face nice and square for those three golf balls.

02:47A lot of key things to remember then, focus on your distance control through having a

02:51nice even backswing and follow through length and you should see your distance control and

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

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