Sink 8 foot Putts with Kellie Stenzel

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• Instructor: Kellie Stenzel
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Putting

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I am going to teach you how to make your 8-foot putts and in. Because isn't it a shame when you get up here and you've hit beautiful shots and you don't convert? The most important thing you're going to do when making your short putts is aim your putter face properly. The distance is a little bit off, that's lesser important. And my favorite way to practice that is to use a chalk line. So I've snapped a chalk line down on the ground here, and I'm going to use it to really work on my setup and make that perfect, because it has to be exact.. So as I set up here to my golf ball, I'm gonna take my putter and I'm gonna make sure that the line on my putter matches the line on the ground exactly. And if you don't have a line on your putter, that's completely fine. Just be careful to set your putter face completely perpendicular. So I set the putter and I'll place my hands on to stabilize the face so that while I'm building my setup around my putter, that it doesn't twist at all. I want to keep it stable the entire setup. I'll take one last look so that I don't need to look during, and then make my stroke. And I'm gonna be very careful to keep my lower body completely still and listen for it to go in. So once I feel like I'm pretty confident aiming my putter face well, now let's talk about how you would put that into play on the golf course, because how many straight putts are there? There aren't a lot, are there? We're lucky to find one, and we're almost shocked when we do. So as I go out…