Golf Life | Chuck Cook How to Solve Yips When Putting

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• Instructor: Chuck Cook
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Putting

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You may be missing putts by moving the putter handle. Here's Hall of Fame golf teacher Chuck Cook with a stick trick to a better putting arc. What we find is a common problem with people is that the head end and the head end of the club don't move correctly. With really bad putters, what we see is the head end of the putter moving too much without the handle end moving a corresponding amount. With good players, we'll see them a lot of times get to moving the handle end of the putter too much, as not letting the head end release. The best way to develop the correct movement, or the correct correlation of the head and the handle of the putter, is to take this hibachi stick. There's a hole in the grip end of your putter, and just stick this hibachi stick in there. Take your setup position so that you can adjust the stick either up and down to make it fit to where it's just touching your body, so that as you swing through. Now, if you use your wrist too much, in other words, make the head of the putter swing too much, you can feel the hibachi stick leave your body. Or if you move the handle in too far, you can feel the same thing. So the goal is, when you're using this, is to try to keep the hibachi stick touching your body at all times, and this gives you the perfect arc to your stroke. So I'm going to ask Lane to come in and demonstrate that process again, showing you how he'll take the hibachi stick to stick it in the hole in the grip end of the putter, and then he'll measure how long that needs…