I Can't Putt..

Why can't I Putt?????

Everyone has these moments and believe me, I mean everyone.  However, if you step back and look at your stroke, you usually can see what is going on.  First you have to know what the stroke should look like.  A very steady body with a pendulum motion like a clock will get you the best results.  You cannot guide the ball, move forward and wish the ball in or even turn your hands/wrist to turn it in with any kind of consistency.  Bend at the hips with your feet approximately shoulder width apart and let your arms hang down.  Your eyes should be above the ball.  The muscles in your arms should feel relaxed.  Tension causes you to start using other parts of the body for the stroke and that isn't correct.  The stroke is made with the shoulders.  Keep everything else still.  Take the putter straight back and straight through is the best way to thinks about it.  The wrist, the hands or the body is not part of the stroke.  All other motions of the stroke will happen naturally.

That is the easiest way to describe it.  In all honesty, if you can make putts standing on your head, first I will sign you up as a trick shot artist and second I will applaud you with that ability.  But the above approach will yield the best stroke.  Click Here to get a visual for what I have described. Notice the lack of motion in the body and the turn of the shoulders.



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