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15. April 2009

Fix the putt yips

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Ein legendärer Artikel erschien im März 2001 im GolfDigest Magazine geschrieben von Butch Harmon und Ed Weathers.
Wir möchten diesen Artikel archivieren und Dir bereitstellen, falls Du ihn einmal brauchen solltest.

I can fix your yips :
‚Knee putting‘ breaks the rules, but it’s foolproof‘.
Golf Digest , March, 2001 by Butch Harmon, Ed Weathers
 
I first saw „knee putting“ back when I was on tour in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Jim Colbert introduced me to it. For people that have the yips–who have a nervous twitch and so have a hard time starting the club back and controlling the blade of the putter throughout the stroke–it’s a foolproof putting method. Why? Because it takes the hands completely out of the stroke.
 
Knee putting goes against the traditional „rules“ of putting. We’ve been taught to stay completely still, not to move anything but the shoulders when we putt. But with knee putting, almost everything is in motion–your knees, your shoulders, your arms, even your head a little bit. But not your hands. They’re locked in perfectly. And that means even if you’ve got the yips, you can make a ton of putts.
 

knee_putting

The basics of knee putting:1. Lock the elbows.
2. Left knee rocks.
3. Right knee rocks.
Foto: Stephen Szurlej
Lock your elbows, rock your knees
 
Basically, there are two parts to knee putting:
 
First, totally lock your elbows against your sides.
 
Second, just rock your knees. On the backswing, your left knee kicks out and back a little. On the throughswing, the right knee goes out and forward a little. Don’t move your hands at all. Don’t worry about your head moving some–it will. So will your hips and shoulders. No problem, as long as your elbows stay locked in and you don’t use your hands.
 
Try it first without a club. Just put your hands together in front of you and make the knee-rocking motion. Watch how your hands move. It’s a perfect pendulum movement–just what you want when you putt.
 
Let ‚rocking‘ speed control distance
 
On longer putts, knee putting can be a little tricky at first, because you have to get used to the new motion. The key is to let the speed of your knee motion dictate the length of the putt. After you do it for a while, you’ll putt long putts just fine.
 
But it’s on short putts that people with the yips have the most problems, and for short putts, knee putting is fantastic. Just lock the elbows and rock the knees, and–well, from 10 feet in, to me it’s so good it’s like stealing. (Editor’s note: When Butch Harmon first showed us this cure for the yips, it looked so ugly, we laughed. Then he proceeded to make two out of three 20-footers, lipping out the third. Asked why he doesn’t use the method himself, he replied, „I don’t need it. I already putt great.“)
 
The Mayo Clinic study: Jack the yipper
 
OK, you’re standing over a three-footer. Doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to save par to win your club championship or just looking to finish off a 98 in front of your wife and kids before the sun sets. Suddenly your brain starts racing, your heart starts thumping and you’re squeezing the glue out of your putter. Snatch! Jab! Miss. Welcome to the world of the yips. Now it’s also the world of modern medicine.
 
In the December 2000 issue of the journal Sports Medicine, researchers from the Mayo Clinic, of all places, have published a major study of the yips. It tells us, among other things, that between 32.5 percent and 47.7 percent of better golfers have the problem, that the „most troublesome“ putts for yippers are (in order) three, four and two feet and that, according to a prior study, the yips cost the average yipper 4.7 strokes per round. Yippers also have increased muscle activity, heart rate and grip pressure when they putt, compared to good putters, who actually have decreased muscle activity and heart rate. Oh yeah, and fast, downhill left-to-right putts are most likely to make a yipper’s knees knock.
 
If you have the yips, there’s only one response to all this: So tell me something I didn’t know–like how to get rid of them.
 
Sadly, the Mayo Clinic study, whose principal author is Dr. Aynsley M. Smith, offers no neat solutions. In fact, the study says that it’s still not clear what causes the yips: Are they a physical problem aggravated by anxiety, or an anxiety problem that results in a stabby stroke? In the end, the researchers say, „We believe the yips represents a continuum on which ‚choking‘ (anxiety-related) and dystonia symptoms anchor the extremes.“ Translation: Some yippers miss little putts because they choke, some miss because they’ve got a physical disorder, and a lot miss because of some combination of both. (Interestingly, the study indicates that yippers differ little from non-yippers in their consumption of soda, coffee, cigarettes, or alcohol, or in their years of tournament play or frequency of play.)
 
Why is the Mayo Clinic interested in the yips? „Golf is good exercise and should be a stress-reliever, but the yips just cause more frustration. We want to help people keep playing,“ says Dr. Smith, an occasional golfer (yip-free) whose fellow researchers on the study are mostly low-handicappers. „Besides, the neuroscience, biomechanics and psychology of the yips are all medically fascinating.“ The Mayo Clinic researchers hope to further test yippers at a putting tournament in August at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla. This will include a test of beta-blockers–drugs said to help some golfers. (For more information, visit www.mayo.edu/research/yips.) Future studies may include tests of grip changes and other possible cures.

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15. April 2009

Unusual Putting Grips

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GolfDigest schreibt in seiner Ausgabe vom April 2008 über Unusual Putting Grips
 
Einige der unten angeführten Puttstile sind ab 1. Jänner 2016 verboten.
Lies den Artikel über Verbot und Erlaubt hier.

Grip It Like The Pros
 
Looking to improve your putting this year?
Try one of these proven styles.

 
Illustrations By Gluekit

image001* This is the best putter on tour last year. Scroll down to see who it is (It is Tim Clark!!)

 
image002TRADITIONAL
TIGER WOODS
„My grip is conventional. The handle runs under the butt of my left hand, and the back of my right hand is parallel to my left. I position both thumbs directly down the top of the handle, and my left forefinger lies across the fingers of my right hand, to provide unity.“

 
image003CROSS-HANDED
JIM FURYK
„My father taught me to grip it with my left hand lower than my right, and my right index finger down the back of the shaft. He said Arnold Palmer and Gary Player told him they wished they had learned that way. It’s easier to use the shoulders and not slap at it.“

 
image004HANDS BACK
ZACH JOHNSON
„I used to have a major forward press, but my hands have moved progressively back — I think because I’m right-eye dominant. It might look to me like my hands are in the middle, when they’re really not. Other than that, my grip is pretty standard.“

 
image005SPLIT-HANDED
DANIEL CHOPRA
„I change between left-hand low and right-hand low. It depends on how I feel over a putt. I separate my hands because I’m trying to get my right hand’s fingers to touch my left forearm to keep everything working together.“

 

image006THE PSYCHO
CHRIS DIMARCO
„I’ve been doing this for 12 years. I started because I was missing short putts. You put your right hand on the grip as if you were gently holding a handle, and your left hand grips the club conventionally. It helps keep the right hand from being overactive.“

 
image007PALMS FACING
VIJAY SINGH
„I vary my putter lengths, but my grip is usually the same. My right hand is only slightly farther down the club than my left, so my palms are almost facing. My thumbs are resting partially on the side of the club. This puts me in a neutral-hand position.“

 
image008THE CLAW
MARK CALCAVECCHIA
„I call it the ‚Reverse DiMarco,‘ and I’ve been holding the putter this way since 2000. I grip my belly putter like this because it keeps my right hand from yipping. It allows my left hand to control the stroke and my right hand to simply go along for the ride.“

 
image009THE PENCIL
TIM CLARK
„I came up with it when I first picked up a long putter, in college. The length determines how my left hand sits on the grip. Because I was born without the ability to rotate my forearms outward, I can’t hold it fully in my right hand. I have to hold it like a pencil.“

 
* Led 2007 pga tour with 1.727 putts per hole

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15. April 2009

Putt á la Z. Johnson

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Es gibt sehr viele Spieler, die die Handgelenke beim Putten nicht stabilisieren können, wo sich das linke Handgelenk beim Stroke winkelt, wobei dann meist der Putterkopf eine falsche Richtung nimmt. Falls Du zu dieser Sorte gehörst. Warum nicht gleich mit einem gewinkeltem Handgelenk starten und putten.
Probiere mal Zach Johnson’s Technik.
 
Zach Johnson hat einen sehr unkonventionellen Puttstil entwickelt, der auf Payne Stewart zurückgeht.
 
putting_grip_johnson01Die Putt-Basic wird grundsätzlich eingehalten; er hält den Putter in der Handfläche der linken Hand, seine Unterarme sind square zum Ziel. Eigentlich könnte man zur Haltung der Handgelenke sagen, er sei „pre-released“.
Er setzt mit seinen gewinkelten Handgelenk den Putterkopf hinter den Ball.
Damit fügt er dem Putterkopf Loft hinzu.

Photo by J.D. Cuban
 
putting_grip_johnson02Während er puttet behält er den linken Handgelenkwinkel bei und hält so seine Hände sehr ruhig.
Eigentlich sieht seine Endstellung so aus, als habe er schlecht geputtet und das Handgelenk hätte überholt.

 
Dass man mit dieser Technik Erfolg haben kann, bewies Z. J. in Augusta 2007, wo er das Green Jacket als U.S. Master-Sieger erringen konnte. Er birdied 11 von 16 Par 5 Löcher und dagegen kann man schließlich nichts sagen. 
Manchmal übertreibt er sogar bei abwärts zu spieltenden Putts die Ansprechposition, damit der Ball noch mehr Backspin erhält und weicher, kontrollierter rollt.
 

Der Schlüssel ist also die Hände hinter dem Putterkopf aufzusetzen und das gewinkelte linke Handgelenk von der Ansprechposition über den Stroke hinaus beizubehalten.
Dieser Stil ist besonders bei super schnellen Grüns von Erfolg gekrönt.
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