What The Yips Look Like When Missing Short Golf Putts (Video) - by Peter Finch
What The Yips Look Like When Missing Short Golf Putts (Video) - by Peter Finch

Now a lot of people when they do miss short putts, they convince themselves and they convince others generally that they have the yips. Now the yips are something which is common in pretty much every single sport, but golf really does identify the yips because it’s such a close situation. It's only a short putt. Everyone's watching you There's no other players running around you trying to put you off like there are in team sports. So it does seem to draw a lot more attention. But what are the yips? Now people describe the yips in lots of different ways. They describe it as freezing over the ball. They describe as having no control over the club when it's in their hands. But what you do need to realize is that the yips are actually quite a rare occurrence.

The physical action of the yips, of a real yipping putt is something that people who miss many three foot putt don't actually do. But there is an overdramatization of the situation. Yips are a very, very different thing to just missing short putts. Just missing short putts and having the yips, they are completely contrasting things. If you are doing this over the short putts and you're getting set up and this is something that I have seen happen before. Someone moving into the ball hitting the ground before bumping the club over, and then missing the ball on the other side. That is a yip. That is something where the body has reacted to a mental stimulus that says I just do not want to be here. If you stood over a three foot putt and you're just nervous about the result, and you end up pulling or pushing a little bit that is not an extreme case of the yips. The yips is a very different animal altogether. If you have the yips that can be much more difficult to solve, and generally speaking it goes down to the player having anxiety generally around golf as a whole, not just in putting. So we will have a look about how you can ease anxiety, but missing short putts is nothing like the yips. The yips are a horrible affliction which can cause all types of footing movements. So don't think you've got the yips if you're just pulling or pushing your three foot putts very slightly. 2016-10-31

Now a lot of people when they do miss short putts, they convince themselves and they convince others generally that they have the yips. Now the yips are something which is common in pretty much every single sport, but golf really does identify the yips because it’s such a close situation. It's only a short putt. Everyone's watching you There's no other players running around you trying to put you off like there are in team sports. So it does seem to draw a lot more attention. But what are the yips? Now people describe the yips in lots of different ways. They describe it as freezing over the ball. They describe as having no control over the club when it's in their hands. But what you do need to realize is that the yips are actually quite a rare occurrence.

The physical action of the yips, of a real yipping putt is something that people who miss many three foot putt don't actually do. But there is an overdramatization of the situation. Yips are a very, very different thing to just missing short putts. Just missing short putts and having the yips, they are completely contrasting things. If you are doing this over the short putts and you're getting set up and this is something that I have seen happen before. Someone moving into the ball hitting the ground before bumping the club over, and then missing the ball on the other side. That is a yip. That is something where the body has reacted to a mental stimulus that says I just do not want to be here. If you stood over a three foot putt and you're just nervous about the result, and you end up pulling or pushing a little bit that is not an extreme case of the yips.

The yips is a very different animal altogether. If you have the yips that can be much more difficult to solve, and generally speaking it goes down to the player having anxiety generally around golf as a whole, not just in putting. So we will have a look about how you can ease anxiety, but missing short putts is nothing like the yips. The yips are a horrible affliction which can cause all types of footing movements. So don't think you've got the yips if you're just pulling or pushing your three foot putts very slightly.