Nice, thanks.
Just bought a putting mirror, realised that when I aligned my eyes they were well behind the ball, feels weird having my head over the ball.
Sunk 25 3 footers in a row and went home.
Nice, thanks.
Just bought a putting mirror, realised that when I aligned my eyes they were well behind the ball, feels weird having my head over the ball.
Sunk 25 3 footers in a row and went home.
The thing that worked for me is to focus on a spot two or three inches ahead of the ball and concentrate on watching the putt roll over it. Stops me lifting my head, moving, watching the putter on the takeaway etc and gives me something positive to focus on. It works.
You never get rid of the yips, you only manage them.......
True, left a 2 foot birdie putt short today. Putter like an idiot first 11 holes and was 3 down. Managed to lose on the last once I returned to how I was putting before having a lesson last week.
Putting is a week to week thing still.
Hi,
Totally agree with your statement.
I've sufferred from the FULL SWING YIPS, it's when you can't take the club away in a controlled way, my legs and body would move up/down violently with the club bouncing along the ground, nasty.
It's takes conviction to control the yips, I did it with visualisation and a counting routine with every club.
It's very much under control now, thank god, if it wasn't, I wouldn't be playing golf now due to embarrassment and anxiety.
BTW, due to my repeatable and rock solid setup and routine, my h'cap has dropped from 5 to 8 down to 2 to 5, chappy.
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Ooh, I'm home!
I struggle with chipping yips and what's been helping me lately is chipping toe down. A lot easier to avoid a duff and impossible to blade chipping this way.
Get a putting mirror and practice with a clowns nose and wig on.
Loving the freeze!
I just returned from yipsville, worse than it ever was. 14 years ago I thought 37 putts was bad, I eclipsed 40 a few times in September!
A new putter helped this time, better than the past 75 of them
3od, switch to a left handed putter for a bit. It feels weird at first but you get used to it after a while. You can always switch back to rh once you get your confidence back up
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Being the worst right-hander in the world at anything sounds bad until you think of the alternative.
3od don’t ever voluntarily do anything left-handed. Left-handedness is both a physical and psychological deformity and should be avoided at all costs.
My love.
I was close to trying left handed, but stuck with righty.
More points than putts is my new mantra
Im sorry but the only real thing that nips it in the butt is putting the other way. Sometimes you gotta just swallow the ego and break the correlation patterns in your brain
Im yet to miss a short putt right handed, I miss plenty putting my normal left hand. Still getting used to the lag putts but the short ones are easy holeouts. I don't plan for it to be a permanent move but I have tried everything and this is the only thing that really works
Bear in mind I play tennis right handed and played hockey for years.
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What Toxic described in his Yips thread wasn't really 'the yips', it was just bad putting. Similar, and the cause (and solution) might be similar, but what I'm about to describe is different.
I'm bumping this thread because I played with a guy today who had them, and he was in full pain.
This guy had a putting stroke with a big loop in it (Furyk putting stroke!), which was OK on putts of any length, but he totally went to water from 4 feet in. Not only did he sort of flick his putter at the ball rather than stroke it, he did so while lifting his head and shoulders. He couldn't keep still. It was painful to watch, and frankly I didn't know what to do or say.
I'm posting this because I wasn't sure what to do. I know you can't provide advice, and I'm sure he has received plenty. But what is the etiquette? Do you say nothing? Be sympathetic? Try to help anyway?
"There are 50 things to remember in the golf swing. Trouble is that I can only remember 49 of them" - Bob Hope.
As someone who suffers them, I feel best when no one says a thing. I know I missed it, they know I missed it, and no amount of words changes the head noises of feeling like you can't make a 10cm.putt.
Sometimes having them earlier in a round is better than late, as your score already sucks and you know there isn't much chance of having a decent one.
Golf sucks
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