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🎯 0:00 – The PASS test introduction: putting posture, alignment, speed, and strike
⚖️ 0:41 – Why proper putting posture is more important than eyes over ball
🏌️ 1:22 – Perfect shoulder alignment with toes for athletic balance
🎯 2:16 – Ball position at heel of putter for optimal putting posture
🧠 2:36 – Why your brain must be quiet for consistent putting speed control
💪 3:56 – Athletic posture setup for fluid side-to-side motion
🤝 4:43 – Proper grip technique with palms facing each other
⬆️ 5:17 – Left shoulder higher setup for natural upstroke through ball
📏 6:38 – The 10-10 drill for perfect putting speed control
👓 8:16 – Proper eyewear positioning for no more 3 putts

Learn the PASS system that guarantees no more 3 putts through proper putting posture and putting speed control. This proven method focuses on athletic posture over traditional “eyes over ball” setup, creating the foundation for consistent distance control and accurate putting.

What You’ll Learn:
-Why putting posture with shoulders aligned to toes beats eyes over ball setup
-The athletic stance that allows natural side-to-side chest movement
-How proper putting posture keeps your brain and body quiet during stroke
-The 10-10 drill for mastering putting speed control on any green
-Why left shoulder higher position creates optimal upstroke through ball
-Ball positioning at heel of putter for consistent putting speed control
-How to achieve perfect balance between toes and heels for stability
-The connection between driver swing and putting stroke mechanics
-Proper eyewear positioning for golfers who wear glasses
-No more 3 putts system through consistent speed and posture fundamentals

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Does your putting hold up to the pass test? So, what is the pass? Well, ultimately the pass is all about posture, alignment, speed, and strike. The four baseline fundamentals for your putting, for your short game, any other shot. Ultimately, the pass is the only way that you can test yourself. I’m Andy Gorman, the pass, the putting and short game specialist, and I’m going to introduce you to the putting and short game skills test so that you can go and test your game from the postural position from set up. How do we go about it? Bottom line is you’ve got to get yourself into good posture. This is not good posture for putting tucked up over the top of the ball, eyes over the ball. This is not what it is all about. The pass is all about posture. Getting good posture first. Number one, good posture. Number two, good posture. Number three, good posture in that order. Essentially, I want you to understand that posture has to change if you want to improve your putting. The most essential part of posture is alignment of the body relative to itself, not the target at this stage. Okay. Firstly, number one, the shoulders, they will stay in line with the toes. Well, they’ve moved from slightly behind the toes to in line with the toes. How do we know? Drop the arms. Allow the arms to hang. Get that those forearms hanging straight the way down. The palms are pointing towards my thighs. My fingers are pointing at my toes. I’m in good balance. I’m not in the balls of my feet. I’m not in the heels of my body. Right. I am essentially well balanced and only balanced when my fingers are pointed at my toes. My shoulders are in line. Another test. Let the shoulders be dictating where they hang down. Use the putter to determine that. We don’t drop golf balls on top of golf balls and then have to reset our body up. I mean, criy, whoever does that. But if we wanted to do that, it wouldn’t be a problem because ultimately what we’re going to be doing is dropping our golf ball inside the golf ball around about the heel of the putter. Why would we do that, Andy? Well, real simple. When we do that, essentially what we’re doing is setting our body in good posture first. Why is that more important than getting your eyes over the golf ball? Number one, balance. If your brain isn’t comfortable in position, your body and your brain will not go quiet. Let that sink in. Your body and your brain will not go quiet. Why does it need to be quiet? Essentially, it needs to be quiet because we need to be relaxed. We need to be capable of making a motion from side to side that keeps the fluidity of the stroke moving forward. If the the body doesn’t feel free to move from side to side, if it gets locked in position, we’ll have a reaction down here. The hands are going to end up flicking. And as a consequence to that, then we’ll end up with all sorts of issues. I’m out of balance. My eyes are over the golf ball. That might be great. From here, I can probably rock my shoulders. The trouble is I can’t keep my head still. So, the relationship of my head, the center of my body, the original position of where I started has now been compromised. Are we getting to understand why we would want to change good posture, athletic, it may not require a lot of speed. That’s not what athleticism is about. It is all about the ability to move. So, the first things first, making sure that I can I can now move my chest from side to side. That’s the first thing about being able to get into good posture and make a good stroke. My chest can move from side to side. The last thing I want is for my chest to be moving in an up and down manner with the shoulders rocking and not be able to move my hands freely from side to side. So essentially from here what I’m doing is now I’m into good posture, athletic. My fingers are pointing down at my toes. My shoulders are in line with my toes. I’m in perfect balance. I’m going to allow my arms to hang from here. Notice that from palms facing my thighs, the palms now will face each other. That’s changed the angle in this in the forearm. Now the shaft can peel out, pour out of the fingertips down the forearms. And you can see I’m maintaining a nice shaft plane relative to my forearms from here. Now with my left arm on the club, left hand on the club, my right hand on the club at differing heights, there is going to be an adjustment to the shoulder. Because of that, the left shoulder will have to go up in this postural position. My left hand is higher. My right hand is lower. My right left shoulder is higher. My right shoulder is lower. That’s really important. And why would we do that? Why, Andy, would you not want the palm, the left hand to be lower, the shoulders to be level? Do we want an upstroke? Do we want the putter to go up through the ball? We do, by the way. So, if we’re working the putter up through the ball and have the left shoulder higher, the same as we do with our driver, which also has an upstroke. Did you know you’re driving swing is more closely aligned to your putting stroke than any other shot you will play? Just throwing that one out there. All right. So, from here in my setup, got good posture. My left shoulder’s higher than my right shoulder. My shoulders are in line with my toes. My balance is perfectly set between my toes and my heels. I’m absolutely anchored in position here. And then from here, I can allow the arms to hang. Step in. just a fraction closer. We want to hit the sweet spot. Left shoulder up. Slight movement into the left left hip. And then from there, back and through. What I’m doing here is my 10 drill. It’s my ability to be able to find the speed of the green on any given day. Take the putter back 10 in and through 10 in. That’s going to give me a speed for the green surface that I’m playing on. Good posture. Shoulders in line with the toes. Left hand higher than the right on the club. Left shoulder higher than the right in the setup. Slight bump into that left side. Back 10 through 10. Good tempo. First ball went left. Obviously wasn’t aiming correctly, but that’s not that’s not what this drill is about to start with, by the way. It’s all about speed. Left shoulders up. Nicely balanced. Back and through. 10. 10. There we go. pretty good speed control. It’s less than six inches between those three golf balls, which means that I’ve absolutely conquered my speed test. So, my 1010 is going to find the speed. I know the speed of this carpet is 10 ft and 3 in. Don’t ask me where the 3 in came from, but that’s not important. From here, all we’re doing is making a 10 stroke. Nice and free, nice and relaxed with good tempo. And that will get the golf ball rolling very comfortably into that 10 foot 3-in category for the speed of the green on any given day. So that’s a great drill for you to test yourself with, but a great posture to be getting into. Make sure we’re looking nice little tilt back with the hips, forward with the shoulders, but keeping the chest up nice and tall, keeping their head up. Guys, girls, if you wear these things, and some of us have to because our eyes aren’t quite what they used to be, or maybe never have been, but still. If you are using a very focal lens, your reading portion will be in the bottom. Your visual for longer distances will be in the top. Sad to say, you’ve got the wrong spectacles or the wrong lenses in your spectacles to play golf. You need to be looking out the bottom portion. You need to have your chin up. You need to have good posture. This is all part of your athletic posture. So, if we can get into an athletic posture, you’re good to go. And from there, you can hit your 10-10 drill and send that golf ball on its way consistently. Thank you for watching. Like and subscribe. Remember, posture, alignment, speed, and strike are the fundamentals that you need to be able to start the process of improving your putting so that you can putt better than any tour player. My promise to you. See you next time.

31 Comments

  1. Are your hands over your toes when the putter is in your hands and ready to stroke the ball? It looks loke your hands are between toes and ball.

  2. Andy I want to engage you in a putting challenge in London. Can you organise this? 36 putts competition. Different standardised distances. Winner gets good money too as companies will sponsor.

  3. Some of the greatest putters like Seve Ballesteros, Bobby Locke and Jack Nicklaus all bent way over. It used to be taught that way. Look at Michelle Wie, they called her putting position "table-top".

  4. perfect posture can be achieved with eyes over the ball! I teach eyes over the ball first, but then adjust the body for max balance, which alows lower body stability with a still head but full chest and shoulder mobility. need to see that putter face placed perfectly square to the starting line and consistently close to the ball👍

  5. I suppose that you think that the greatest golfer of all time had terrible posture while putting. His name is Jack Nicklaus. He was the best putter in golf on greens that weren't even close to being as immaculate as they are today. The proof is in the pudd(tt)ing and it's what works best for each individual.

  6. Great video Andy.
    Having worked with you, changing my posture and putter shaft length to fit that perfect posture has transformed my putting. Saving 5 or 6 shots a round, minimising those dreaded 3 putts.

  7. For me if I am not looking straight down at the ball my line to the cup is often off 2" by the time it gets there. So I already know if I drop a ball as noted here and it drops inside where my ball is I'm already at risk of a missed shot.

  8. Can you explain the posture of Johnny Miller and Jack Nicholas?
    I am pretty sure Jack had his eyes inside the ball

  9. Nope…Eyes inside the target line allows poor aim (Aim a rifle with your eyes inside the target line?)…Andy's swinging door stroke is open face to close face, meaning the Putter face square for milliseconds..otherwise great point toward posture

  10. The best advice you gave me (on your original putting course) was to practice 7 foot putts on the practice green before starting my round. Dials in the speed of the green and I'm generally sinking the makeable putts out on the course.

  11. That’s awesome to hear. Applying the practice methods will always see positive results. Even Tour Pros fail to do this and wonder why their form drops off. Justin Thomas was a good example of this and we he went back to his back practice routine on the greens he won the week after the Masters. 🤦🏼‍♂️

  12. 10” x 10” drill only works for 100% balanced green.
    How many greens are 100% balanced? NONE! 😊

  13. So the very first point he makes is that Jack Nicklaus's posture was bad! Could not watch all the way thru.

  14. Andy, I'm coming back to the game after a 20 year Sabbatical. My putting and short game used to be a strength but now are gone. I'm currently wearing a strong prescription which makes me feel like I'm in a fish bowl when looking down. Any ideas on fixes?

  15. Every putting tip I have ever heard has a square stance, eyes over the ball, etc. I tried that for years with poor results. I putt with an open stance and eyes inside the ball and my touch and feel are incredibly better and I sink way more putts that way. Thanks for the video anyway.

  16. Well, I tried the PASS system yesterday and, whilst I still did miss some putts, I was much closer and much more accurate.

  17. This is a much more comfortable stance than bending over the ball. That means I can practice longer and my lower back doesn't get sore. The feel is better and my distance control is more repeatable. Thanks Andy!

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