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What is the correct putting stroke?
The putting stroke is dominated by the shoulders. A rocking of the shoulders moves the arms and hands together in one unit. The wrists stay solid. Your lower half (hips, legs and feet) should stay completely still throughout the putting stroke. Your weight should remain 50/50 on both feet during the entire movement.
Should you look at hole or ball when putting?
Heads-up putting is exactly that. It’s when you look at the hole, rather than the golf ball, while you putt. Renowned golf biomechanist Sasho Mackenzie published a wide-ranging study on the technique and found it improved most golfers’ putting.
Should you look at the ball when putting?
There is a practice putting technique that many pro golfers use to work on feel and distance control on the greens. It’s a practice technique that a few of them have even taken onto the golf course during tournament play. The technique: Don’t look at the golf ball when putting!
What percentage of 5-foot putts do amateurs make?
That’s why they’re called gimmes. The percentages for amateurs drop drastically, however, at the knee-knocking 4- to 5-foot range. From that distance, the average amateur makes a little over 50 percent of the putts.
Why do curved-line putters aim twice as far off the hole?
When they’re asked to aim at a spot that correlates to the amount of break they read, they usually aim twice as far off the hole than they intended. The reason is, curved-line putters picture the hole, and not a spot along the line, as their target.
How do quarterbacks break putts?
Quarterbacks throw to a moving target, so they tend to be curved-line thinkers. Golfers fall on both sides. But curved-line players have had no system for handling breaking putts. So I developed one. It’s based on picturing the hole as a clock face and focusing on where a putt should enter.
How do you play a breaking putt?
The way we’ve all been taught to play breaking putts will never work for most of us. *Find the high point of the break, and then picture a straight putt to that spot. *That advice, according to my testing of 700 pros and amateurs, works for only 35 percent of golfers.
Why do golfers Miss a foot wide when they aim?
So when you have them aim at a spot — say, a foot outside the hole — they see that spot as their ultimate target, not as their starting line. Unless they make compensations, they’ll aim two feet out, and miss a foot wide. In the late ’90s, I asked a group of clinical and sport psychologists to review my findings.