Jimmy Stanger in September on the Simmons Bank Open.
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Q-School, closing stage.
Portland Open.
Jimmy Stanger says 2018 was “fun,” however these two occasions had been most decidedly not. They had been tortuous. At Q-School, he says he missed a putt to miss his card by a shot. At the Portland Open, he says he missed a 6-footer that will have stored his card.
“I was like, I need to become a better putter,” he mentioned. “I need to know what’s going on.”
He was talking just lately in front of a Korn Ferry Tour social media person, and close to him had been an alignment rod, some tees and a ball. Here, you in all probability know what occurred. Yeah, he grew to become a greater putter, and yeah, he found out what was happening. After all, they don’t shoot movies of dudes who don’t.
Here’s how Stanger did it, although, must you be excited about such a factor your self.
Putting, we all know, is a recreation of variables. We haven’t any management over the velocity of the inexperienced. The slope of the inexperienced. The wind. But some issues we are able to corral. Feet place. Ball place. Putter place.
So Stanger went to work there. Below is the video. Below which can be some phrases.
As advised within the video:
— He locations an alignment rod two putter heads away from the within of his ball.
— He locations his toes to the sting of the alignment rod.
— He marks the place of his ft with tees.
— He additionally units up a “tee gate” on either side of the ball to dial in his stroke.
“So what that does is every single day you have a baseline,” Stanger mentioned on the video. “You’re doing the exact same thing every single day and you can figure out what’s wrong then if you’re missing putts and it’s not in your setup.”
At that time, he can work on inexperienced studying. Or velocity gauging. Of course, he can even alter his setup, then lock it again in.
Notably, you’ve possibly seen different gamers with comparable setups, with varied levels of alignment, and the idea will not be precisely new. But all of it has been fantastic to Stanger.
He completed fifteenth on the Korn Ferry Tour’s season-long factors race. Next 12 months, he’ll play on the PGA Tour.
“When you get nervous and you don’t know what’s going on,” he mentioned on the video, “you got to have something rock solid to lean back on.”
