Golf putting yips is the term for a dreaded putting condition that afflicts many golfers. For some golfers just hearing the name makes you start to shiver. Don’t be fooled. The yips are not a nervous condition as we have been led to believe.
Golf putting yips is actually the manipulation of the putter at the point of impact. This is normally based around the players inability to aim. If a players eyesight changes, then their perception of a straight line changes. Even though the player thinks that they are aimed perfect, they are a little off in that aim. Even if the player makes a good stroke that ball’s not going to go into the cup.
As a result the player starts to manipulate the putter during the stroke. Now eventually over a period of weeks, months, maybe even years , this manipulation of the putter will settle in the dominant hand, and as it does, as the putter starts to come into the ball, then the hands are going to try to manipulate the putter back on line.
That’s what we call golf putting yips. So when a player has the yips the first thing you want to do is neutralize the dominant hand, you may want to do a role reversal of the hands.
To correct golf putting yips there are a lot of different grips that can be used. First of all, if a players dominant hand, is his right hand, you could take the left hand, put in on the grip, then take the right hand and put it over the left hand, so that none of the fingers of the right hand is touching the grip.
What the right hand can do now is supply power, but it is really not in a position to try to change the face of that putter as we get into that impact area. The player will now get a feeling that the left hand is in control, not the right hand ant longer.
Other grips used to correct putting yip, the original “claw” where you take the shaft of the putter and you put it in-between the first to fingers of the right hand. Or you may take the conventional grip and slide not just one, not two, but you may slide three fingers up.
All of these grips neutralize the dominant hand, which allows the non-dominant hand to control the putter during the stroke.
Over a few weeks, if a player works at getting their non-dominant hand to control the putter, then there is a good chance he is going to see the golf putting yips disappear.
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