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Full Swing · Drill

Feel clubface at the top with a putter flat spot

The instructor describes a top-of-backswing drill using a putter. With the thumbs down the shaft, at the top of the swing an open clubface makes the flat spot of the putter grip point straight down to the ground; twisting your hands so the flat spot points a little more up to the sky lets you see and feel the putter face.

Channel: Mark Immelman

Watch official source at 12:37

Try it

  1. so your thumbs go down the shaft
  2. when you go up to the top of your swing if you have an open club face
  3. the flat spot of the club of the putter grip is pointing straight down to the ground
  4. twist your hands and you twist the flat spot a little more up to the sky

Why this context matters

Uses a putter as a training tool because the flat spot on the grip makes clubface orientation easy to feel.