How to Do Golf Putting - The Yips

How to Do Golf Putting - The Yips Mizuno Denis Pugh PGA Master Professional Practice Drills-How to Cure the Yips Putting But it wouldn’t be proper and it wouldn’t be possible to talk about parting without discussing yips. The yips are those nervous little twitches in the wrist that cause players usually have some experience to this seemingly short and impossible to miss putts. What has really happened is a combination of poor technique and then a poor memory reservoir too many bad putts missed under too many important circumstances and the golfer literally becomes paralyzed with fear. For the root cause, too much wrist action and it’s usually the left wrist that’s been overtaken by the right wrist surge to hit the putt or vice versa. The left wrist doing too much work either way the wrist are causing the problem. The player gets over the ball and is frozen in fear and then in panic makes an involuntary sort of hit at the ball and usually the miss is quite dramatic and goes further away even though he or she started. Now solution is not easy because you’re trying cure two things bad technique and bad memory bank and it’s very difficult to erase the memory bank of misses but you have to make a dramatic change in the technique. Now I have seen Bernhard Langer use many different techniques to overcome his problems with the yips. He’s not the only one that’s been successful but it’s interesting to look at how he went about changing. He put the shaft through the left arm detaching the inside of the left arm there and assembled a grip like so and by doing this he was able to stroke putts without the wrist breaking down so that when he had a putt he would make the putt and keep the left wrist very firm as he went through. Now that seem to work for awhile but even he got overtaken again and he went for a longer part where he was the chest starter putting and uses the right hand away from the left that’s a viable option. So he’s using a different style of grip using a sore or claw. These techniques promote a movement at the shoulder where the shoulders are doing the work. The arms are doing the work but not the wrist. Now it’s your choice on how to beat these yips. Usually it’s best done with the help of PGA professional who will look at your own courses and say to you the solution that he would recommend but ultimately you’re on your own. You have to go out there and make technical changes but you also have to learn a whole new way of thinking and by doing so you can beat that dreaded disease called yips.