Hi – I am here with Henrik Jentsch He is a well known golf pro in Southern Germany but who has just recently come to Chalampé to this very nice golf club "Golf du Rhin" which is on an island between France and Germany The members here come, I think, from Germany, France, Switzerland, And I have heard quite a lot of this fantastic short game training facility; I have not seen something similar in the region. And now you will show us some short-game tricks? Well, I will first explain what we have here. We have a 3-hole short game facility So you can use this to hone your short game, practice chipping, pitching, bunker shorts, from varying distances Someone who wishes to play only 3 holes can come and do that, and then practice other things, So let us see what this looks like.
Thanks. So what is the idea of this putting training. The first thing one should do upon arriving on a golf course is to find out how fast the greens are. There are several ways to do this. One is with a stimpmeter let the ball roll, measure the distance, know the speed But hardly anyone has a stimpmeter. So we need to be our own personal stimpmeter. To do that we play three putts.
Same backswing, same timing, without watching the ball. And when I have made the three putts, alll in the same way, All three balls should be close together. Then I turn the head the tendons are stretched and I will see the speed of the green today. And the next step? The second exercise we set up around 15 meters (45 ft) away from the flag, we turn the head towards the flag swing back as far as our instinct allows us – – and humans are not capable of putting too far because humans have an instinct that tells them: "too far could be dangerous".
If I stand on a high-rise and make one step forward too many then I'll fall and hurt myself or I'll be dead. I set uo, turn the head towards the target, go back, swing back as far as my instinct, and will note that the ball is short. Humans are not capable of putting too far. Turn the head swing, and I am a short distance ahead of the hole. Turn head, swing, and the ball stops in front of the hole. So these are three balls and now I am aware of the speed of the green. The third exercise is "putting too far" Just try to overcome your gut feeling swing back a little more So again, the third exercise ahead of a round is I turn the head to the target and try to overcome my gut feeling/instinct a little bit so that the ball rolls just a little bit too far. Well that worked quite nicely.
And the last exercise? The last thing is:What is actually the correct length when the ball tolls towards the flag. Most people say 10. 20 cm, 50 – that is impossible. Because: why does the ball fall into the hole? The ball falls as gravity takes over and pulls the ball in like an aspirator. That is: When the ball arrives at the hole, we have three factors. The first is: at the center of the hole: "how fast do you want to roll"? And the ball says: I'd like to have a speed of . zero rotation per second at the center of the hole. The second ball says: If I roll too far, I'd like to have a speed of one rotation per second. Now comes the third and he has uneven terrain in front of the hole And when he rolls past the hole he says I'd like to have four rotations per second, and if there is a small stone in front of the hole, I'll roll past it anyway.
That means: when I putt, how do I manage to always have the perefect speed? That is relaively easy …. Well : Henrik will probably explain this in some of his own clips, or you can take a lesson from him. I certainly intend to learn a few more tricks this summer After all: most points are lost in the short game. And now a few additional impressions of the Golf du Rhin in Chalampé, located to the East of Mulhouse, North of Basel and South of Freiburg..