CHARPTER 12

IMPROVE YOUR STROKE MECHANICS (如何提高推杆技术)(2)

12.3 Groove Your Impact Point (触球点)

If making solid contact between putter and ball is a problem, you can improve if you are willing to do some careful work. I say work because it will take about 20000 solid practice strokes to make solid contact a habit. And I say careful because many golfers who try to change their stroke search of more solid contact find themselves missing every putt to the right or left with their new solid contact, because they practiced carelessly, and you don’t want that.

It involves finding and marking your putter sweet-spot, documenting your improvement progress, and maintaining a good stroke path while you improve your impact pattern.

如果扎实触球对你来说有点问题，这个可以通过细心的工作来纠正。说是一项“工作”，因为扎实触球的习惯需要大概2万次的重复，才能成为习惯。至于细心，许多球手在用他们所习得的扎实触球推杆时，发现球的滚动轨迹出了问题，而这源于练习时的粗心，细心造就成功。

这项改善击球模式的练习包括找到自己推杆的甜点，记录自己的进步，保持正确的挥杆路径。

If your putter has a mark on its top line, don’t assume that is where you should address and strike your putts. Finding your putter’s true sweet-spot is one of the easiest chores in golf. You must hold the grip in your fingers so the shaft is angled to the ground the same way it is when you putt with it. This is the key because it keeps the putter properly balanced to the way you actually use it. Then tap-tap-tap across the face with a hard metal object such as a car key. When taping away form the sweet-spot, the putter head will wobble and you’ll feel the vibrations in your fingers. There will be only one spot along the horizontal axis of the putter-face that will produce zero wobble and the vibrations are minimized. That is your putter’s sweep-spot.

推杆上会有一些标记，但是不要断定那一定就是甜点位置。找到甜点并不难。用手指固定住杆身，让杆身与地面的角度与推杆时的角度一样，这非常关键。然后用一把车钥匙或是其他的金属小棒敲击整个杆面，如果敲击点不是甜点，杆头就会摇晃，手指就会感到震动，杆面上只有沿着水平轴线的一点，当敲击的时候，杆面不会晃动，手指感到的震动也是最少的，这点就是甜点。

*** Mark Your Putter （标记甜点）

Once you’ve found the proper sweet-spot, mark it along the top line of your putter with a permanent-ink, then tap-tap again to confirm your findings. When you are confident of the location, mark it permanently by filing in a small groove, which you can fill with paint. This will give you a permanent identification of where to address and hit your putts.

找到了甜点，用防水墨水在推杆顶上做上标记，然后重新测试再次确认。认定了，就在推杆顶上挫一条小槽，填入颜料。这样永久的甜点标记做成了。

*** Test Your Pattern First （测试触球模式）

Start you test by attaching a piece of Teacher Putter Tape on your putter-face, being careful to position the center of the tape over the sweet-spot. Also be sure to keep the bottom edge of the tape parallel to and just above the bottom edge of the putter-face. Take 3 balls and hit 10 putts from each of three different distances – 3 feet, 10 feet, and 30 feet. At each distance, putt from several different directions so this is a balanced test of uphill right to left, left to right, and down hill putts.

把测试用胶条贴在推杆杆面上，胶条中心在甜点位置。胶条的底部与杆头的底部密合。三种不同的距离，3英尺，10英尺，30英尺，每种距离进行上坡左线，上坡右线，下坡等不同坡度的练习。每种距离推10个球。

Remove the tape and place it in the booklet supplied with the tape, which allows you to keep an accurate record of your test results and progress. Repeat this 30-putt test once a month, always placing the test tape in your booklet for a long-term record. After a number of months, you’ll see the evidence of your improvement in grooving your impact pattern to your putter sweet-spot and decreasing it size. But you’ll improve only if you do the drill below.

然后揭下测试胶条，贴在专门为保存胶条的小册子上。每个月重复一次测试，保留并比较自己的测试结果，看看自己是否进步了。几个月后，从所保留的测试胶条渐渐趋小的击球区域，你会看到自己的甜点击球模式得到了改善。但是这需要同时坚持下面的一种练习。

*** Sweep-spot Practice （甜点触球练习）

The best feedback device for teaching sweet-spot impact is the Teacher Putting Clip. Teacher Clips are small, aluminum plates that stick to your putter-face (using replaceable double-faced tape) with protruding prongs that bracket the sweet-spot. Clips come in three tolerance sizes (standard, pro, and super-pro), allowing less and less margin of error for missing the sweet-spot before deflecting the putt severely off-line.

Start with the standard-size-clip, taking care to attach it to the correct location on the face. Align Elk’s Key at a target can, place a pillow or book to keep balls from hitting the can, and turn on your metronome to beep at your natural body rhythm.

学习甜点触球最好的反馈设备是小小的由铝片制成的贴在杆头上的教师推杆夹。两边凸起，中间点对应推杆的甜点。三种型号，标准型，职业型，超级型，不等的偏离甜点击球容错率。

从标准型开始，把夹子粘在正确的位置，Elk’s Key置于地上，瞄准可乐罐，可乐罐前放物品挡住，以免撞到作为目标的可乐罐而导致移动，开启节拍器。

1、  With a ball in Elk’s Key, address the putt parallel-left and four inches from the ball, as you do during your putting routine.

2、  Make your preview stroke (whatever length stroke you intend to practice in this session), hold your finish as you commit to repeating that exact stroke, then move into your final address position for the putt (just the way you do on the course).

3、  Look once down your Aim-line to verify that you have moved in properly, start your ritual, and stroke your putt with your perfect-rhythm stroke.

4、  Hold your finish for five metronome beats, and see and feel if you make solid contact with your putt-face, or if you pronged the putt. If you pronged the putt, it doesn’t count. Each practice session requires stroking at least 30 solid (no-prong) putts.

1、  球放在Elk’s Key的中间，杆头离开球四英寸，瞄准，就像在场上做routine一样。

2、  试挥，确定上杆高度，hold住送杆，如同真实击球；然后上前把杆头放到球后。

3、  再看一眼瞄准线，确认自己的瞄准没有问题；做完仪式，以最合适的节奏完成击球。

4、  Hold住送杆，感觉是否完成了扎实的甜点触球，还是球撞到了夹子的凸起。如果撞到了，这个球不算数，每组练习需要累计30次没有碰到夹子凸起的扎实甜点触球。

*** Choose the Correct-Size Clip (选择合适的夹子)

After you’ve been practicing for 5 or 10session, count the number of solid versus pronged putts in one session. When you begin making about 80percent solid contact, move to the next-small clip which should reduce your solid contacts to about 50 percent.

It may sound strange to hear me say this, but don’t overdo this drill. One session every other day, 30 solid putts per session, is perfect. On the days between clip sessions, practice with your Putting Track to keep grooving your pure-in-line stroke path. This will prevent your subconscious from creating solid contact with the clips by making unacceptable correction to your stroke path.

在练习了5-10组后，计算每组扎实甜蜜点触球占所有击球的比例。如果达到了80%，那就要选用小一号的夹子了，让扎实甜蜜点触球占所有击球的比例下降到50%左右。

不要连续做这项练习，隔天一组，每组30次扎实甜蜜点触球，这是最好的，这样能防止下意识做出无益的挥杆路径调整。不做夹子练习的那天，用练习轨道练习直上直下的推杆路径。

When practicing with Teacher Putting Clips, keep a rational perspective on the point of you practice. Don’t get discouraged when you prong five consecutive putts, and don’t try to force or guide your putter to make a solid contact. Always try to make good putting strokes in your natural body rhythm. You are trying to develop subconscious control of a solid-contact stroke that won’t require thinking on the golf course. What you should think about is getting into a good setup with perfect shoulder flow line position, standing a perfect distance from the ball, with perfect alignment to your Aim-line. Once in this starting position, don’t think your way through the putting stroke, just let it swing back and through to the beat of your metronome, the hold your finish squarely down the Aim-line for five counts. The rest will come with time and practice.

用教师推杆夹子进行练习时，不要对自己的期望太高，不要因为连续五次撞到夹子凸起而灰心，不要设法去引导杆面，总是以身体的自然节奏进行钟摆式挥动，我们所期待的是在场上不假思索的推杆。在练习时要想的事情是站姿站位，身体平行与瞄准线，一旦这一切都做好了，那就不需要想挥杆动作，只要按着节拍器的节奏钟摆挥动，hold住送杆，检查杆面是否依然与瞄准线垂直。所期待的进步会随着时间和练习而来的。

*** The Final Groove Drill（高级触球练习）

Several months down the road, when you are making 80 percent solid contact using the pro-size Teacher Putting Clip, you will have to make a choice about your next step. You can either move to the super-pro clip or begin using the pro clip inside the Putting Track. Both will help you groove a Tour-quality impact pattern.

几个月的正确练习，使用职业夹的甜蜜点扎实触球率达到了80%，那么接下来，有两步可走，可以使用超级夹，也可以在推杆轨道中使用职业夹。这两种方法都能让你的推杆水平上升到巡回赛球员的水平。