Many golfers overlook their posture. Rather than take the time to see that their weight is properly distributed at address, or that they have the right amount of forward tilt, they set up to the ball quickly and carelessly and simply let it fly.
If this is your preshot pattern, slow down! You need to pay more attention to your posture. If you don’t, you’ll have a hard time maintaining your balance and keeping the club on the desired swing path. On the other hand, the better your posture is, the more likely you are to move everything properly during the swing, and thus build clubhead speed and power.
Proper posture and good eye alignment are two of the most important elements of a consistent putting stroke.
Eye exercises can immediately benefit the everyday golfer and widespread performance breakthrough in putting.
The phenomenon of poor eye convergence affects nine out of ten people, and comes into play primarily in putting and chipping because your eyes look straight down at the ball. When you line up a putt from behind the ball, your eyes level to the horizon, you’re fine.
Naturally, the tendency is to help your weaker eye, you do that by adjusting your head to bring it more into play.
The problem is worse late in the day when your eyes begin to tire, and for tour players it’s almost always worse on Sunday, after a long week of eye strain.
If you’re like most people, your head will move downward as the pen moves toward you, an instinctive movement that makes sighting the tip of the pen easier. By the way, this is proof that we adjust our posture to accommodate our eyes. It is important to keep your head absolutely steady as you conduct the test. When the tip of the pen nears your face, one eye is apt to turn slightly inward to follow the pen, and the other will stop moving or even turn outward in a Marty Feldman-like position. That proves your eyes aren’t converging properly, and chances are you’re misaligning your shoulders when you putt.
When you’re under stress, you experience a limbic brain response. The fight-or-flight mechanism that results just takes over, and you forget how to execute. Eye exercise heightens cognitive brain function and calms you down. A painless exercise with no heavy lifting, the promise of more putts holed and better control over your emotions. Now that’s the kind of workout routine golfers have been looking for!
The Posturepro Team
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