Funny little revelation on the putting green yesterday, my shoulder stroke for years has been plagued by a small but noticeable OTT move. Going back, it gets inside, then an OTT move to correct it on the forward stroke. Ball positioning, grip changes, stance line changes, all of them could not correct this. But then I remembered that in the book the shoulder turn takeaway was always too low and to the inside, making a plane shift necessary, I just assumed that this only pertained to the full swing though.
I decided to put my "mind in my hands" and keep conscious monitoring of my hands during the stroke instead, and the putts were going in from everywhere. I do not feel any real independent hand or wrist movement, just a different awareness during the stroke, and all of a sudden, tracing became incredibly easy instead of a far-away goal. Its like what Lynn talks about, the body reacts to what the hands tell them to do (correct me if I am wrong). I want to trace a straight line with pp#3, so the shoulders respond to the hands' directions, and thats it. Do you guys think that this is how many of the pros putt, where they are using a shoulder stroke, but give the hands full control, but the only visible movement we see in their stroke are the shoulders moving in response? More of a conceptual question I guess, but it helped me immensely yesterday so I was just looking for some confirmation.
Thanks as always guys, have at it
