Switch hands on your putter to sink more putts

Is your putting a weak area in your game? Utilze this putting drill to really solidify your putting game, take several strokes per round off your score and stop mishitting the ball.

It’s called “left-hand-low”. Both Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer felt they would have been better on the green if they had learned this way and it’s not too late for you to experiment with it.

If you’re serious about winning, you need to roll the ball in the hole consistently. The pros never leave anything to chance. They understand that the relationship between pace and line is crucial and by experimenting with this putting drill you may just get a better handle on both pace and keeping your ball in line.

If you miss a lot to the left or the right, chances are you’re not thinking much about how you grip the putter or, if you’re like me, you’ve been gripping your putter the same since your dad showed you how all those years ago.

If you grip your putter like most people do, the same or similar to how you grip your woods and irons, than its just far too easy to let the clubface rotate open or closed and push the ball right or left.

Follow this popular technique used by many pros and you’ll notice the difference in control right away.

Take your normal grip with your left hand on top and now reverse it so that your left hand is now on the bottom. It may not seem it at first but this is most ergonomically correct and natural way to grip the putter.

Now do the following to set up and put correctly every time:

1. Get your feet at least shoulders-width apart, knees pointed slightly out. Bend from your hips, relax your arms and make sure your head is just inside the ball. The ball should be about an inch in front of center with your putter in the center of your stance.

2. Your forearms should make a triangle and your wrists should never move. Your grip should be tense but low on the tension scale – don’t choke it to death! Pressure chokes off feel.

3. Locate a spot a couple of feet in front of you on your line – a bleached spot perhaps. Now follow this exact routine every time - look at the spot, the hole, the spot and now…stroke.

4. Understand that the putting stroke is one complete movement. Bring the putter back ¼ and forward through the ball ¾ for a nice, sooth roll with good feel. Obviously, bring the putter back farther on longer shots and try to maintain that 3-1 ratio.

Now you have a great set-up and by utilizing the “left-hand-low” grip, your lead hand will do the work, keeping yourself from “pushing” the putter into the ball or “stabbing” at it which will make the ball skip around.

Try it on the practice green or in the hallway or kitchen at your home until you get as comfortable with this hold as you are with your full-swing grip, then go and putt the lights out.

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Thanks for reading. Good luck, good hustling.

Big Freddy

Setup your golf shots like a pro Hustler

To make money hustling golf, you need to be consistent. The number one step you can take to achieve this goal is to setup correctly each and every time you address the ball. Make more money golfing with this step-by-step primer on how to setup correctly every time you go to swing your golf club.

One thing I always notice when golfing is that no matter how good or bad someone golfs, very few take the necessary steps to prepare for hitting the ball. This is a short but important golf lesson and one of the best golf tips I have ever written.

If you have any desire to hustle golf or even gamble for fun, you will dramatically increase your chances if you have an effective, step-by-step pre-hot routine.

So many golfers take very little time in setting up and addressing the ball. They just get up, get in a stance, and swing away. it is impossible to be a real gof hustler or to gamble at golf sucessfully without a pre-shot routine!

When I'm playing golf, whether I'm gambling and hustling or just playing for fun, one thing that I always do before each and every shot is very simple but effective and this lesson will have you doing it too. It's a short, consistent setup drill.

Think for a minute about what you do when you approach the golf ball. If you have no consistent routine for addressing the ball but still wonder why you don’t have consistent ball striking, I have one question for you.

What the heck do you expect?!!

I laugh at golfers who set up haphazardly and wonder why they hit their irons fat or thin and have no consistency in their ball striking.

Listen to what Jack Nicklaus has to say on the matter:

“If you set up correctly, there’s a good chance you’ll hit a reasonable shot, even if you make a mediocre swing. If you set up the ball poorly, you’ll hit a lousy shot even if you make the greatest swing in the world.”

So, clearly we need to set up with some consistency and correctly each and every time we want to hit the ball.

Here are 6 easy steps to take to set up every time you address the ball in order to get into a consistent groove and hit solid shots that the pros use and for some reason almost no professional teacher will teach you while taking your money for lessons.

I guess they figure if they teach you enough to get a little better but not enough to truly get better on your own, you’ll have to keep paying them.

Anyway, here we go. I execute this set-up plan each and every time I get ready to hit the ball.

It may seem time consuming at first but after a few times at the driving range or rounds on the course, it’ll be second nature.

Besides, it takes a heck of a lot less time to set up this way than it does to look for your ball in the woods 4-5 times per round!

Let’s get started:

1. Get your feet in position first. Stand the right distance for you away from the ball with your feet together and with your elbows bent at your sides, arms in front of you and holding the club in the air. The club should be perpendicular to the ground with the head in the air.

2. Open your feet to shoulder width, make sure the ball is in the proper position in your stance, depending on which club you are going to use. The club head should still be in the air in front of you.

3. Now, without moving the club yet, you want to lock your knees stiff.

4. Bend down, lowering the club head behind the ball. Keep your knees straight, bend down from your hips and keep your back, shoulder blades and spine straight.

5. Now you can bend your knees, relaxing them slightly but not too much. Always feel like your leg muscles are “engaged”.

6. Lastly, tilt the upper body to the right so that your head is just behind the ball. Guess what? You’re ready to hit!

I cannot stress enough how much your game will improve if you are consistently following this set up approach.

You can get a free newsletter at my website if you want, where I’ll be blowing the lid off of more things the “driving range pro” won’t teach you in future lessons, so keep your eyes peeled!


Until then, thanks for reading. Good luck.

Big Freddy Kaboot

“As long as there’s been golf, there’s been gambling. And where there is gambling, there will be hustling.”