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A good David Orr video:

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I know this is somewhat back from the dead, but I think it's a good thread and it seems like the right place to post this. I saw a video on youtube today of James Nicholas working on his putting with Darrell Kestner. Video here: 

 

At 13:31 he produces a heavy weight ball and says "if your follow through is too long you'll double hit it". It seems to me like a pretty good way to train out the instinct to reaccelerate the putter after impact, but my google fu seems to be weak today. Does anyone know where to get one?

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Generally not at all a fan of heavy balls. I haven’t watched the video so maybe it is only a tiny bit heavier or something but the heavy balls I’ve used encourage acceleration or they go almost nowhere.

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43 minutes ago, iacas said:

Generally not at all a fan of heavy balls. I haven’t watched the video so maybe it is only a tiny bit heavier or something but the heavy balls I’ve used encourage acceleration or they go almost nowhere.

I think it's pretty heavy but he's only trying to hit it maybe 3 feet.

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On 1/23/2026 at 4:14 PM, Ty_Webb said:

I think it's pretty heavy but he's only trying to hit it maybe 3 feet.

Regardless, I don't like the heavy balls. They often have people doing something different. You have to REALLY accelerate to double-hit it.

Much bigger fan of taking a fast, long backswing and… hitting the ball five feet. Things like that.

I watched the video. Nothing all that new. Too much focus on the head movement, IMO. Tons of great putters have some head movement.

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16 hours ago, iacas said:

Regardless, I don't like the heavy balls. They often have people doing something different. You have to REALLY accelerate to double-hit it.

Much bigger fan of taking a fast, long backswing and… hitting the ball five feet. Things like that.

I watched the video. Nothing all that new. Too much focus on the head movement, IMO. Tons of great putters have some head movement.

Thanks - will give that a try and stop worrying about the head movement. 🙂

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      Thanks - will give that a try and stop worrying about the head movement. 🙂
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