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Comment ‘ROLL’ and I’ll send you 3 PUTTING drills as well as give you first access to my new series The Art Of Putting!

Your putting grip could be ruining your stroke. 👀

One of the biggest mistakes I see is holding the putter too much in the fingers.

Instead, we want the grip to run through the lifelines of the palms, allowing the putter to sit more naturally into the hands.

Why?

Because this helps set the wrists in a more neutral position and allows the shaft to sit more naturally in line with the forearms.

When the hands, wrists and forearms are organized correctly, we make it much easier for the putter to:

⛳️ Travel on the correct arc
🎯 Keep the face square to that arc
🔄 Return to the ball consistently

Great putting isn’t about manipulating the putter face through impact.

Set it up correctly in your hands, and let the structure of your grip do the work.

Try this next time you practice and see how different your stroke feels.

Save this for your next putting session.

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Your backswing might be getting ruined before you even move the club. 👀

One of the most important details in the lead-hand grip is getting the heel pad of the hand on top of the grip.

This allows the lead-hand thumb to cross over toward the opposite side of the target, creating the leverage we need to hinge the club properly.

Why does that matter?

Because the right amount of hinge makes it much easier to keep the club in front of your body as it travels back.

When the grip sits too much in the lifeline/palm of the hand, the player often loses that leverage. The club becomes harder to hinge — and the result can be a club that works too far inside in the backswing.

👉 Better grip → better leverage → easier hinge → better club path in the backswing.

Sometimes the problem isn’t your swing.

It’s where you put your hand on the club.

Save this and check your lead-hand grip before your next practice session. ⛳️

Expectations were sky high coming into this spot, but it honestly blew me away on every level. This is going to be tough to beat!

Before and After with my guy Carl Bergstrom

Who knows what course this hole is on?

Watch me play the 7th at Pebble Beach Resorts for my first time ever in the DGDG Does Good Invitational.

Watch Wardell Curry tee off on the final 3 holes at Pebble Beach Resorts during the DGDG Does Good Invitational.

Comment ‘CRUSH’ and I’ll send you 3 DRILL VIDEOS to PERFECT your DOWSWING! 👇

This is a great example of why feel vs real in the golf swing.

During this lesson with a long-time remote coaching student, we worked on a feel of keeping his chest down and “covering” the ball.

The feel was good… but there was a problem.

When he took that feel into his practice swing, he was keeping his arms back for too long. That can leave the arms trapped behind the torso and contribute to the dreaded over-draw miss.

The solution?

👉 Let the arms fall and unload earlier in the downswing, so they can work more in front of the torso.

The coolest part was that he immediately connected this feeling to an old swing feel from when he was younger.

Sometimes the best swing change isn’t creating something completely new.

It’s rediscovering something you already had.

🎯 Want my 3 favorite drills for building a better downswing?

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Alignment shouldn’t feel like a checklist. It should feel like a 3-foot putt.

When you stand over a short putt, you’re not consciously checking your shoulders, hips, and feet — you just feel square. You trust it and go. That’s the target for full-swing alignment too: not a mechanical routine you run through every time, but an intuitive sense of “this is neutral” that fires automatically.

Here’s the catch — that intuition isn’t born, it’s built. If you never train your setup with real feedback (mirrors, alignment sticks, a coach’s eye), your “feels square” can quietly drift into “feels comfortable but is actually 5° open.” The putt only feels automatic because you’ve rolled thousands of them and your brain calibrated the feel against the actual result.

So simplify the thought — one cue, one feeling, just like the putt. But don’t skip the reps that make that feeling trustworthy. Train it until your intuition and your intention are telling you the same thing.

Simple isn’t the same as untrained. It’s what training earns you. ⛳