They both got putting instruction from the putt doctor, Craig Farnsworth.
Tyler here with a true blog style update. You may have noticed that I have been MIA for the last couple weeks. Let me bring you up to speed on the things I have been attending and working on.
Last Monday I attended a clinic about putting put on by Dr. Craig Farnsworth. It was one of the most impressive and well organized pieces of golf instruction that I have had the pleasure to be apart of. The clinic was about 5 hours and covered everything from set up to stroke mechanics to green reading.
In fact, you could very easily spend an entire putting lesson on: Alignment, Stroke Mechanics, Set Up, Distance Control, and Green Reading. Many players think that one lesson is all it takes to fix their putting but will take entire packages of lessons on the full swing. Doesn’t that seem backwards to you? If you don’t think putting deserves a lot of attention, then you didn’t pay attention this weekend while watching the PGA Championship. Brendon Post, my director of instruction just played in a tournament after attending some of the clinic and shot his career tournament low 63. If you’re curious about what I learned, you can check out Dr. Farnsworth’s new book. It’s a good summary of what he went over in his 5 hour clinic.
Apart from finally learning how to read a green properly, I spent the last week in San Diego taking CHEK exercise coach and learning how to better serve you golfers. Dee and I are big believers in investing in ourselves. I’m pretty much a seminar junky and haven’t made my way to rehab yet.
Anyway, I’m back and smarter than ever and about to film some more videos for the site. I’ve got a couple good requests, but if there is anything you want to hear, send me a message on facebook or contact us here.
Quick tip for you? Try to line the ball up using your dominant eye only (close the other one). You’d be surprised the difference it makes.
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Tyler here adding what I can to the top swing faults. My model for the golf swing is based on likelihood of success. If someone has made a million dollars doing that move, then it probably has some merit and fits into a swing style somewhere.
Here’s my thoughts on the C-Posture. There is no doubt that it will limit rotation in the golf swing. The spine doesn’t like to flex and rotate at the same time (see my example in “What your golf pro isn’t telling you”). The majority of players that I see start in C-Posture will stand up to try to make up to help straighten that spine to make up for the lost rotation.
There is one exception. Putting. I have never seen a good putter who didn’t have more of a rounded posture than his full swing. One prominent putting instructor advises to try and get your upper chest parallel to the ground. I don’t know if I’d go that far – unless you are a straight-back-straight-through style putter – but I do think that you need more of a C-Posture set up than in the full swing. Putting and short game have a different set of requirements. With the full swing you are trying to maximize speed. With the short game you are trying to maximize precision. Different constraints create different responses. In this case it is hard to argue that the best putters in the world don’t at least slightly adapt a more C-Posture set up. Every rule in golf has an exception; at least try and know the ones that apply to you.
By the way, I’ve been promising Dee that I would get a video camera soon so that we can start alternating with more video posts. I’m letting you all know so that I am forced to act on it soon. Stay tuned for more exciting posts and videos from the Golf Fitness Guys.
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