Why You Need This: Are you tired of missing the big putt and going home frustrated? In this Jordan Spieth putting analysis, you'll learn how to drain big putts!

Jordan Spieth is one of the best putters in the world.

In just the last year he has holed more clutch putts than most pros will in their entire careers.

So how does he do it time and time again?

It comes down to 4 key moves...

Move #1: Alignment

Spieth does a great job with his putting alignment.

In the video, you'll see how he lines up his feet, hips, and shoulders using an alignment stick.

I use an excellent training aid called the EyeLine Putting Mirror to help my alignment.

Many top pros use that training aid as well, including Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, Adam Scott, and Jason Day to name a few.

Nailing your alignment from the start is crucial for your consistency.

Move #2: Stable Lower Body

Your lower body should remain stable throughout the putt.

Spieth's lower body doesn't move much at all.

Your weight should be distributed evenly in your legs.

You shouldn't feel any pressure change in your feet during your putts.

Move #3: Left Hand Low Grip

Spieth putts with a left hand low grip.

If you tend to over power your putts with your right hand, try putting with your left hand low.

That'll help you make a smoother stroke.

Move #4: Soft Wrists

Spieth gets a little bit of wrist cock with his right hand as he takes the putter back.

From there, notice how he allows the momentum of the putter to swing a bit forward.

Now, I'm talking about a really small amount of movement from his wrists.

Most players believe that they can't have any wrist movement, so it's interesting to see Spieth let his wrists move a bit.

Watch this Jordan Spieth putting analysis to learn the 4 key putting moves that he uses to drain big putts!

Golf Pros Featured: Jordan Spieth    

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:52

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. I’m Clay Ballard with Top Speed Golf. Today we’re going to take a look at Jordan Spieth’s putting stroke. We all know how unbelievably solid he is, especially from that 8 to 12 foot range.

He drains everything, and he’s just running away with tournaments on the PGA Tour the last couple years. Really playing great.

We’re going to take a look at four keys to his putting mechanics that you can emulate to start rolling the ball to your best ability, start making more birdies and drain those putts to take some more money off your friends. So good luck guys, let’s go ahead and get started.

OK, so the first thing we’ll talk about here is alignment. We’ll see that he has an alignment stick on the ground. I use something called a putting mirror made by EyeLine Golf. It does basically the same thing where you can check your alignment.

What I always try to do is I try to find a dead straight putt, get my feet, my hips, my shoulders, my eyes, everything lined up with that putt, and then roll some nice and straight to make sure my fundamentals are good I’m starting the ball on the correct line before I really do anything else.

That’s what I always recommend for people to do. Get lined up right from the bat, and then roll a few putts to make sure that you’re starting it on the correct line, finding that dead straight putt.

Now the second thing we can really key in on here is how stable he is with his entire body. I’ll go ahead and mark both ankles, both knees, and both hips.

Everything that’s happening from the belt down should be very, very stable. Watch as he goes through this putting stroke just how little any of these joints move.

We saw the camera move there a little bit, but he’s completely stable with his entire lower body. I’ll go ahead and get rid of these dots, let’s watch one more stroke. You’re going to see almost absolutely no movement from the waist down.

Now a good way to practice this is to feel the pressure in your feet. You want to feel like the balance in between your feet is 50/50. As you make your stroke, you shouldn’t feel any shift in weight at all in your feet.

That’s something that will give you immediate feedback. If you’re feeling any pressure change at all with your feet, that means you’re moving around a bit on the ball and you’re not going to get the true stroke just like we’re seeing here with Jordan Spieth.

Now something he does that’s a little bit unique, I know there’s a lot of other players that use a left hand low putting style.

But one of the things that I like a lot with his left hand low – let’s go ahead and watch as he starts back – notice how the left wrist, because he gets a little bit of wrist cock in the right wrist, and that putter kind of swings back, notice how this left wrist is nice and flat.

If we go through the entire stroke here, as he’s coming through, notice how flat that left wrist stays all the way on through to the finish.

For those of you that want to try out a left-hand low technique, it’s a great technique. You’re going to feel like your entire forearm, all the way to the wrist is dead flat. All the way into your follow through as you hold that follow through, that’s going to stay nice and flat like that.

You don’t want that left wrist to break down at all.

Now the right wrist can get a little bit of a hinge in it. Let’s go ahead and go back to address here, and let’s measure the angle in the right wrist to the club shaft.

So here at address – let’s actually go right before he’s about to take it back, because he does get a little bit of forward shaft lean at the last second. There he’s got his full amount of forward shaft lean.

Now I’m going to measure going down the club shaft, there we go, about 145°. He’s got a slight bend in the right wrist. The left wrist is going to have less bend because he does have some forward shaft lean.

We’re at 145° right as he begins to take it back. Let’s go back to the end of the backstroke, and as he’s very starting down. Now, actually a little bit before that, right here, we’re going to see that he actually sharpens this angle up very, very slightly.

Again, I want to take this, and we’ll go all the way around, center of the elbow. Now you can see there’s 140° in this. Now what that means is that he’s taken 5° in that right wrist bend as he’s going back.

What all that sounds a little bit too technical, and it is a little too technical, I don’t want you to get that technical with it. What’s happening, and what I want you to feel here, is that as we go back to address, the angle that’s in the right forearm and the right wrist, so if we look at this right wrist, should be loose.

The hands should be loose and relaxed. As the momentum of the putter head starts going back this way, that’s going to allow that to hinge in his wrist as he completes his back stroke and starts his through stroke.

So as he starts right here, that putter head has swing back a little bit, and he’s let the momentum of that bend his right wrist a little bit more, just because his wrists are so soft.

In conjunction with that, the left wrist is going to even feel like it’s slightly bowed or slightly out like this for those of you guys that want to feel that in your left wrist.

Then as he starts forward, we’ll go ahead and go to the finish and now he’s let that swing on through, and he’s gotten rid of a little bit of that angle.

We’re talking small amounts here, I’m not trying to get technical and say oh you need to have X amount of degrees in your wrist angle here, and X amount there. I just want to show you guys that the wrist is nice and soft, and that’s allowing that wrist to move around a little bit.

A lot of times people have this idea, they’ve been coached that you want to have the wrist dead locked in there, and we’re seeing slight changes in the wrist angles and that’s completely fine.

We don’t ever want to feel like we’re locked up or we’re tight with the wrist. There will be a little bit of a flow to the putter head.

We’re creating a little bit more angle as we go back, and releasing that angle slightly as we go through, and that’s why you can see four or five difference in degrees of angle as he’s coming back and through.

It’s a small amount, but I’m not a big fan of trying to lock everything in, get tight, and control the putter face. I want that putter to flow nice and easy.

You can see just how loose the hands are, how those wrists have a very small amount of flow to them, and that allows him to get a great roll on the ball.

So focus in on those four things, you guys are going to putt great. I’ve got a great drill for you now, what I’d like for you to do is get lined up.

Use an alignment device, and I want you to make 20 putts to start out using your alignment device, just focused in on your lower body, your feet, your knees, your hips being dead stable.

I want you to make 20 putts with that, making those putts, and then you’re ready to move on to the second piece. If you’re going to try left hand low, I want you to hold in the finish as we get through to our full release point.

I want that left wrist to be nice and flat as you’re coming through there. 20 more putts doing that. Then finally, go ahead and do 20 putts where you feel a little bit of a flow in the hands and the wrist, and the momentum of the putter head swings the hands back and through.

So total you’re going to have 80, or excuse me, 60 reps in total. You’re going to make a lot of putts. Again, go to that 8 to 12-foot range, that’s the range you’re really going to pick up a lot of strokes.

Work hard, guys. Try out these drills, and I’ll see you guys soon.