Lee Trevino final December in the course of the PNC Championship.
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Lee Trevino had simply laid out three items of his putting strategy, all in slightly below a minute, when an observer requested a query.
Is that it? Follow these three, and your ball will discover the opening?
The man’s phrases had simply left his mouth when Trevino opened his in response.
“I’m going to putt good and I’m going to win [if I followed them],” he stated.
“If I’m doing two, I’ll end fairly near the highest.
“If I’m doing all three poorly, then I’m way down at the bottom.”
Trevino was speaking through a video just lately posted to the Lee Trevino Fans Instagram account, and you may watch the video here and find other videos from the account here. It additionally serves as introduction to the legendary six-time main winner, although you’re very doubtless already conversant in the now-84-year-old.
Trevino, smart and a giver of his knowledge, shares with utmost confidence, which has made him a lot adored by his many followers.
As to why Trevino would make this daring declare? In the video, Trevino additionally defined the three items of his putting strategy. First, you need to watch the video, and it’s beneath. Below that, we’ll discuss it.
3 items of Lee Trevino’s putting strategy
1. ‘The position of the left hand’
In the video, Trevino stated he typically sees gamers holding a putter with their left palm going through outward.
But he believed you shouldn’t, and right here was why.
“The one thing that I want to talk about here is the left hand, the position of the left hand,” he stated within the video. “Lots of people get down and they get the left hand and it’s too weak. [He demonstrated by holding the putter with the left palm facing the camera.] You discover how the again of the left hand is definitely pointed away from the road. In the stroke, this left hand will need to work again up. Which what occurs to the face of the membership that opens?
“The ball goes to the right.”
2. ‘Left shoulder up’
In the video, Trevino stated he additionally typically sees gamers taking the putter again and breaking their wrists — “instead of the right hand taking the club back smoothly.”
He had a thought on tips on how to right issues.
“To do that,” he stated within the video, “you must have the left shoulder up, you see what I’m saying. It’s got to be up, in this position.”
3. ‘Your hands have to be forward’
In the video, Trevino additionally urged a slight putter lean ahead.
He additionally had a thought on how far it ought to go.
“Almost to the point to where if you close your left eye, look down at the top of your left shoe [and] that [putter] shaft should be center of the left shoe,” he stated.
In the video, Trevino then dropped about an 8-footer that broke left to proper.
Like he stated he would.
