Trying to Clean-up Puttings.....Grip, Start, Power Source

[300Drive]

Right Hand Grip-Is the putter in your palm (as is the case with the left hand), or in the fingers? Which fingers? I feel in primarily in the finger next to the index finger, although others are gripping the handle as well. Dont really feel in in the index finger, it is barely touching the handle.

What Starts the Stroke-Left Shoulder, right shoulder, hips, hands, arms? I feel the left shoulder starts the stroke.

What Starts the Forward Stroke-Left shoulder, right shoulder, hands, hips, arms, gravity? I feel the left side pull the putterhead through.

Arc of course.

Doees any of this need cleaning up?

Thanks for any reply.

[Martee]

I didn't know it until the other day, but my putting style follows Stan Utley's.

My forearms move my putter, but a week ago I would have sworn in was my shoulders.

Arc putting

Also I changed putters this year after using one for three years with less than good results. Turns out that the Face Balancd Putter isn't a good choice for Arc Putting, go for the Toe Balanced Putter. I pulled out my putter from the 70s, a old bullseye, plain, simple and ugly but it works.

If you get a chance read Stan Utley's 'The Art of Putting', I found it a good read and makes a lot of sense. Much better than Pelz's books IMO.

[rprevost]

I have recently gone to a cross-handed, push putting stroke with virtually no shoulder movement. It is hitting, not swinging, with the putter, using the basic motion pattern; modeled after the old Nicklaus method. So far it has worked well. Putting is so much about touch and confidence that I would say if your putts are going in with your grip, it does not need cleaning up.

[300Drive]

I didn't know it until the other day, but my putting style follows Stan Utley's.

My forearms move my putter, but a week ago I would have sworn in was my shoulders.

Arc putting

Also I changed putters this year after using one for three years with less than good results. Turns out that the Face Balancd Putter isn't a good choice for Arc Putting, go for the Toe Balanced Putter. I pulled out my putter from the 70s, a old bullseye, plain, simple and ugly but it works.

If you get a chance read Stan Utley's 'The Art of Putting', I found it a good read and makes a lot of sense. Much better than Pelz's books IMO.

Thanks Martee-

I did pull out the Utley book last night. In one area of the book he talks about the shoulders controlling the stroke, and shoulders rotating around the spine (I think this is a gross exaggeration) but then he spends most of his time talking about the stroke being controlled "below the elbows".....

Grip in both palms (yet he talks about feel in the fingers). Pictures show the grip in both palms.

Seems to advocate powering the backstroke by the left forearm, and the forward stroke by the right forearm. Not real clear whether he advocates hinging...he says he doesent, but then says you must have "soft" hands and forearms to allow the putterhead to swing and give you more feel (sounds like hinging to me [not TGM hinging].