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Putt to the Beat of a Drum to Improve Your Speed Control on the Greens
By Tony | June 19, 2008
Australian High Peformance Golf Academy AHPGA student Philip Tan has been training with us here at the Australian High Performance Golf Academy for the past 9 weeks.
Philip is an excellent putter from short distances (inside 6 feet) and mid length putts, but struggles some what with judging the speed control on his longer putts, say outside 35 feet.
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SPEED IS KING ON THE GREENS
We have been working with various drills to improve Philip`s speed control on the greens, and whilst he was improving, he was still three putting a little too often. Back home in Malaysia Philips `day job` is a musician, more precisely he plays the drums. So I suggested to him the other day to try to putt to the beat of a drum. What does this mean?
The putting stroke can be either fast or slow, but it must be rhythmical, and work to a one, two musical type beat. So that`s where the link with the drums come into play! I suggested Philip experiment on a one, two beat and discover what rhythm worked best for him. One beat on the takeaway and one at the point of impact. One, two, one, two…. So with some more experimentation and training Philip will start mastering the speed on the greens, and being a professional musician he was able to relate to this almost immediately.
So if you are struggling with speed control on your putts, give this a go… I recommend the use of a metronome as used by most musicians to improve your rhythm on not only putts but all shots that require less than a full swing.
NOTE: I find that short game shots work best with a one second beat between takaway and impact. So set that metronome to 60 beats per minute rhythm. One, two, one two………
Good golfing and let me know how you go with this one.
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