What is a smooth putter stroke golf drill 3 One handed ghost hands (Video) - by Pete Styles
What is a smooth putter stroke golf drill 3 One handed ghost hands (Video) - by Pete Styles

Here’s another lovely little practice drill for you to practice in front of the mirror. Not necessarily on the golf course, not necessarily hitting putts, but just there in front of a mirror to improve the consistency of your stroke. One of the areas I see with putting why people are inconsistent, is sometimes their hands will argue and fight with each other. So their right hand will do too much work. The left hand will do too much work. And it feels like there’s a constant battle going on between the hands, meaning, that some parts are left or right. Some are long or short. But it depended on which hand won the argument on that given day. Particularly notice will -- what will happen on the pressure. So here’s a great little practice drill for you. So try and get the hands to work together as one unit. And it starts up by just doing one handed putts. So take the putting on right hand, left hand behind my back. And just make a couple of little practice strokes backwards and forwards. And just feel it’s nice and smooth and coming from my shoulder and I’m not utilizing my risk too much.

So, a supporting stroke that comes from my shoulder and I can look up into the mirror where the camera is and just see how that’s rocking backwards and forwards. I then want to bring in my left hand but I’m not touching. She’s going to grip the club with my left hand. I’m just going to place it almost the same, it’s like a ghost hand. I want to call it a ghost hand just sitting in front of the grip here. And you’ll notice that my left hand will sit down quiet low because I actually put myself cross handed when I play. So if I practice this drill, I’d have my left hand down nice and low. If you don’t practice that way, and you normally regularly grip her, right hand goes low on the grip; the left hand will come at the top. But I’m going to do it. How I would do it for now, right hand at the top, left hand down nice and low. And now I’ll make my right hand a putting stroke again and I try and feel how my left hand can just follow the shaft, follow the grip as if it was involved. And I’m not using my left hand to move around too much. I’m letting it hang naturally from my shoulder so I rock backwards and forwards within my shoulder and the left hand stays there. If my right hand is doing too much work, it’ll keep banging into the left hand. And if my left hand is doing too much work, it’ll keep pulling away from my right hand.

So if I was to do it, how you’d be doing it normally if you’re gripping is a right handed golf for right hand, the low left hand high. The left hand goes in front of the club head. I’m sorry, and for another club handle and just stay as nice and even. It’s not touching; it’s not pulling away too much. The gap between the hand and the shaft stay even. Once you’ve done it with the right hand for a while and you feel you’re confident there, swap by with the left hand. The left hand goes at the top, right hand behind your back. Practice one handed putting strokes nice and even there then bring the right hand down and goes down. It’s there again, rocking it evenly backwards and forwards. The right hand not pushing into the shaft or pulling away too much. Again, doing it how I would normally do it. My right hand would be up; my left hand would be down. My right hand is even more even in that position. It’s not accelerating or decelerating. So practice a little bit by watching into a mirror so you can see what your hands are looking like. The gaps shouldn’t increase or decrease and it’s called ghost hands. Practice like that. Then put your hands on together and the hands just feel nice and even and connected without arguing and fighting. That’s a really good drill for smoother putting strokes.

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Here’s another lovely little practice drill for you to practice in front of the mirror. Not necessarily on the golf course, not necessarily hitting putts, but just there in front of a mirror to improve the consistency of your stroke. One of the areas I see with putting why people are inconsistent, is sometimes their hands will argue and fight with each other. So their right hand will do too much work. The left hand will do too much work. And it feels like there’s a constant battle going on between the hands, meaning, that some parts are left or right. Some are long or short. But it depended on which hand won the argument on that given day. Particularly notice will — what will happen on the pressure. So here’s a great little practice drill for you. So try and get the hands to work together as one unit. And it starts up by just doing one handed putts. So take the putting on right hand, left hand behind my back. And just make a couple of little practice strokes backwards and forwards. And just feel it’s nice and smooth and coming from my shoulder and I’m not utilizing my risk too much.

So, a supporting stroke that comes from my shoulder and I can look up into the mirror where the camera is and just see how that’s rocking backwards and forwards. I then want to bring in my left hand but I’m not touching. She’s going to grip the club with my left hand. I’m just going to place it almost the same, it’s like a ghost hand. I want to call it a ghost hand just sitting in front of the grip here. And you’ll notice that my left hand will sit down quiet low because I actually put myself cross handed when I play. So if I practice this drill, I’d have my left hand down nice and low. If you don’t practice that way, and you normally regularly grip her, right hand goes low on the grip; the left hand will come at the top. But I’m going to do it. How I would do it for now, right hand at the top, left hand down nice and low. And now I’ll make my right hand a putting stroke again and I try and feel how my left hand can just follow the shaft, follow the grip as if it was involved. And I’m not using my left hand to move around too much. I’m letting it hang naturally from my shoulder so I rock backwards and forwards within my shoulder and the left hand stays there. If my right hand is doing too much work, it’ll keep banging into the left hand. And if my left hand is doing too much work, it’ll keep pulling away from my right hand.

So if I was to do it, how you’d be doing it normally if you’re gripping is a right handed golf for right hand, the low left hand high. The left hand goes in front of the club head. I’m sorry, and for another club handle and just stay as nice and even. It’s not touching; it’s not pulling away too much. The gap between the hand and the shaft stay even. Once you’ve done it with the right hand for a while and you feel you’re confident there, swap by with the left hand. The left hand goes at the top, right hand behind your back. Practice one handed putting strokes nice and even there then bring the right hand down and goes down. It’s there again, rocking it evenly backwards and forwards. The right hand not pushing into the shaft or pulling away too much. Again, doing it how I would normally do it. My right hand would be up; my left hand would be down. My right hand is even more even in that position. It’s not accelerating or decelerating. So practice a little bit by watching into a mirror so you can see what your hands are looking like. The gaps shouldn’t increase or decrease and it’s called ghost hands. Practice like that. Then put your hands on together and the hands just feel nice and even and connected without arguing and fighting. That’s a really good drill for smoother putting strokes.