Putting Back Swing

Video Transcript

"Okay, many players have a problem when they putt of decelerating the club, which means they take the club head back too far, and then they slow it down when they have, they realize they need to slow it down because they're swinging too hard. So how you correct that, is I have a very short putt here, so I take the club back very, I don't take it back very far at all, and then I just accelerate through it. So that's a much more accurate putt, and if I take a big back swing and then try to stop the putter. So you want to take a small back swing and a larger than your back swing follow-through for a short putt. Now we have a longer putt, so obviously I'm going to have to take the club back a little further, because the putt's longer, and then I'm going to go through it a little further. So that was a decent back swing, a similar follow-through, but I accelerated through it the whole way. So now here's a longer putt. So I'm going to take a bigger of a back swing, and then I just follow through, and that one was the perfect speed right in. And last, but not least, here's our longest putt of this segment. I can't just take a teeny little back swing like that and get the ball to the hole, so I have to take an appropriate back swing, let's say about that far, and, I guess I needed to take it back about that much more. But you want to take an appropriate back swing for the length of the putt, and the only way you're going to determine that is through practicing your putting a lot, but remember, for a shorter putt, a shorter back swing, and they get progressively longer as the putts get longer."