Having the yips is the worst feeling in golf.
There truly is nothing worse than standing over the golf ball with zero confidence, no matter the club that’s in your hand. And that’s exactly what happened to Si Woo Kim.
The Korean has never been the strongest on the greens, but at the end of last year and the start of this one, he’d lost all confidence with the putter in his hands.
After months of feeling like his hands were shaking on the greens, Kim turned to YouTube and picked up a piece of advice anyone can follow that cured his yips.
The YouTube tip that cured Si Woo Kim’s yips
Kim said that after playing on Saturday at the Genesis Invitational, he looked for a cure to his yips on YouTube, and found a tip that saved his game on the greens.
Speaking to Dan Rapaport on Dan on Golf, Kim said, “”I think I started the week before Valero. So, Rivera, I had really rough shaking hands on Saturday. So, I didn’t know what to do. I was thinking about going back to long putter
“So, I tried to find a way, and then I searched YouTube, ‘How do I get rid of the yips?’ and some psychologist came out like the only way to like distract the brain, like you look at between the hole and putting face.
So I try on Sunday at Riv. It works. I never shake hands. The day before, I had a like brutal, shaky hands. So I tried that. Never shaky hands. So it just works.”
Focusing on the hole instead of the ball and the putter seems to have cured the putting yips for Kim, so if you’re suffering from the same problem, it might be worth a go!
