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5 Disc Golf Putting Tips to Help Find Your Style
These 5 Disc Golf Putting Tips have been used by the worlds best for decades to develop a strong disc golf putting technique. Read along as I walk y'all through how to find, develop, and perfect your putting styles that will help lead to more birdies and tournament victories in the years to come.
Step 1: Find Your Grip
Let your hand naturally caress the disc. Find a comfortable position, focusing on maintaining a slight bit of pressure between the middle finger and the thumb. Your hand should naturally close around the putter from there. When the disc is able to spin in between your fingers as you grab it, you have found a good, repeatable grip. Make sure to keep your disc golf putting grip consistent, as it is the crucial foundation for the next disc golf putting steps to follow.
Step 2: Find Your Stance
Get in a athletic stance with the dominant foot leading, and your feet spaced a couple feet apart. The key is to be relaxed through the entire duration of the disc golf putt, so keep an emphasis on comfort for now if you are a beginner. If your hips are square to the basket, you need to get them closed in relation to the basket (push the right hip out and left). This allows the arm to swing consistently on a straight plane to the basket. If your hips are square to the disc golf basket you will yank the shots, and push them if your stance is too open. Some people prefer to be lower, some higher, just pick what is comfortable for now and as long as the athletic stance is in place then everything else will follow.
Step 3: Find Your Aim
Pretend the disc golf basket is a shooting target and the disc golf disc you are holding is a rifle. Next find your grip and engage in your new and improved stance from step 2. Now pretend the knuckle of your index finger on your throwing hand is the reticle you are going to use to aim the rifle and hit a bullseye. You want to see your dominant eye line up your knuckle to the pole. Use the natural motion of your arm to swing the disc and knuckle up along the pole. It will take practice to find your release point but do not get discouraged, as this will eliminate many misses left and right, practice will take care of the rest.
Step 4: Find Your Release
Okay so here's where things get interesting. We are going to want to try and carry as much energy from our swing to the disc as possible, which is honestly in my opinion the hardest part about putting. The word to focus on here is COMPACT. The longer your swing the longer you are going to have to maintain your momentum on line, leading to more missed putts. Get the disc golf disc out of your hand quick and FOLLOW THROUGH! The disc should leave your hand before the elbow is extended and PULL THE PUTT to the basket. It does not matter if you spin putt or push putt, pull that disc to the basket! During practice focus on the last point of contact and work backwards from there.
Step 5: Finding Consistency
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!!!
The key to learning any new skill in this life is practice. Trust me I wish I could walk to the green and nail every putt I took, but that's not possible. All the worlds best disc golf players constantly talk about practice being the one thing that separates them from the crowd and that is true with disc golf putting too. I hope these 5 disc golf putting tips have helped all develop a unique and controllable putting motion to be refined and repeated for years to come.
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