I putt with a relatively short putter (33") that I also have bent upright a few degrees. My arms hang straight down. Right forearm 'slap' motion back and through, like tossing a ball underhand.
Yep, the easiest way to putt IMO.
Like you have a racquet in your right hand. A bent right wrist 'slap', kind of a heel punch at 'underhand toss' tempo. Racquet face angled slightly forward (grip leads)
Hands slightly ahead. Angled hinge action, no roll feel.
Andy North putted with an old Spalding Cash In... He is a very tall man,
and would choke down on that putter, making it a short putter. He won two U.S. Opens like that.
I putt left hand low with the butt run up to the middle of the left forearm arm. My right hand then grip on top of the left hand with the heel pushing the butt. The stroke is mostly right hand back and pushing forward. In this case, the right arm is always bent and will never be straight. Is this ok?
I putt with a relatively short putter (33") that I also have bent upright a few degrees. My arms hang straight down. Right forearm 'slap' motion back and through, like tossing a ball underhand.
Yep, the easiest way to putt IMO.
Like you have a racquet in your right hand. A bent right wrist 'slap', kind of a heel punch at 'underhand toss' tempo. Racquet face angled slightly forward (grip leads)
Hands slightly ahead. Angled hinge action, no roll feel.
Would you use the tripod technique (head centered between the feet) and apply the three imperatives and the three essentials and perfect your alignments at the three stations?
Putting to me is the left arm rhythm of #3 accumulator with a zeroed out right shoulder. An arm motion. I do feel #1 pp of the right hand. I like to putt with my fingers (pressure points) and arms, not hands and shoulders, if that “seems as if” makes sense. I rarely do.
I totally agree with mgjorden in that most of us use a putter that is way too long. At 6'3 I use a 33 inch putter so my left arm can let #3accum swing. I also release the putter face that will slightly (slightly- see Tiger and Els) bend the left wrist the way the left wrist bends into follow through before it re-positions itself at the end of a full swing.
I also have a long pendulum swing- even on short putts using thrust control - ala, Lynn’s example of a fielder throwing the ball from the outfield to various bases, as the means of distance control.
I hope I didn't "trash" Homer Kelly. What I said was that he was not a good writer. If anyone really disagrees with that, I'm sorry. Actually, I read Homer's book many times to try to sort out "what the duck" he was trying to communicate, and I wore out the book flipping from one section to another trying to get his definitions pieced together. Once finished, I understaood he refers to the putting stroke as a vertical hinge action, and as a Ferris Wheel action. That's fine, but there's not much else, is there? Maybe I missed it.
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