Are their any cures for the yips?

Question

Are their any cures for the yips?

Answer 1

Nope - you are toast.  Think about fishing or tennis as a pastime.  Oh you can spend a lot of money on belly putters, or the really long putter up to your chest, but you're just prolonging the agony, it's over.

Answer 2

Just shoot yourself.

Answer 3

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Good luck

Understanding the basic structure of thought provides a crystal clear, laser like awareness into what you need to do to eliminate the yips from your game. What we want to do is deconstruct this state and free your attention to be available for memories and images of when you putted your best.

This is easily achieved, believe it or not. To master your mind and continue the development of your mental game is the surest way to cure the yips or any other "ailment" in your golf game. Here's a few things to use to begin to change your experience:

Break your typical routine - now this seems strange to recommend to a golfer, to break your routine, but in this case it's critical. The sequence of behaviors that lead to the experience of the yips must be altered at first. You want to break the pattern that set things up.

Stand behind your ball - looking at the hole, visualize the line the ball will roll on, and see it drop in the hole at the perfect speed. Move into address position and get comfortable over the ball.

Recall the last time - (and it doesn't matter if it was a year ago) that you made a smooth putting stroke. This means to see, hear and feel these memories intensely. Settle into this memory for a few seconds. Make your stroke.

Needless to say you will want to practice this process on the putting green prior to your rounds or at times when you are not standing over a putt on the course. At least until you have made this process a bit more automatic.

This approach to cure the yips is very likely out of your comfort zone, which is great. Repeat this process for a little while, perhaps a few rounds, and then reintegrate your pre-putt routine with these new additions.

Answer 4

Take your normal grip and line up behind the ball. Relax. and then relax again properly this time.

Just before you want to start your back-swing, press your hands forward (forward press). This should get the momentum for the club to start going backwards.

Have a loose grip on the club at all times, don't try and strangle the grip.

Answer 5

Definitely. Yips are caused when your hands don't work together such that you may have a square to square backswing but your putterhead opens or closes at impact.

The cure is to prevent one hand from getting more active than the other. The solution is to get a large putter grip. I replaced my putter grip with a Golf Pride 2 Thumb. Check out www.golfputting.com.

Answer 6

Keep youe head DOWN untill you hear the ball go into the hole

Answer 7

I can only assume you are referring  to putting. Two things that have helped me. Concentrating on what you are doing, not what might happen. Also, take your time in lining up your putt. Once you are lined up and over the ball, grip lightly and take your stroke. The longer you stand over the ball to putt, I can pretty much promise you the more tense you will get causing you to jerk or yip.