What you should know before you buy your next putter.

This is great information if you want to improve your putting.

Putter Fitting is a no-brainer. Putting with an off-the-rack putter is like competing in the high jump from a ditch. You first step to better putting is to get on a level playing field.

Your Putting Stroke:

1- Straight Back and Through Stroke

2- Inside to Inside Stroke – Ark Stroke

Prior to deciding on a putter, determine what you putting stroke style is.  Every golf putting stroke is going to fall into one of two categories: either straight back and through, always keeping the putter face square to the ball, or inside to inside motion, or an abbreviated adaptation of the full golf swing.  These two different putting strokes will determine the type of putter that is best for you.

Now that you have determine your putting stroke, make sure your putter is the correct lenght.

Putter lenght: 

First let’s make sure your putter is the right lenght. This way, your eyes will be over the ball and your arms will be in a vertical position for you to make your stroke.

Lenght: 

• Very important to keep ball close to your feet, eyes over the ball and arms hanging down to a vertical position.

Too Long:

You will stand further from the ball and your eyes will be well inside the ball. The toe of your putter will be off the ground causing it to aim to the left. (Right Handed Player)

Too Short:

You will stand closer to the ball and your eyes will be beyond the ball. The heel of your putter will tend to lift off the ground causing it to aim to the right. (Right Handed Player)

Types of Putters- What’s Best for You

Left: Toe-down balanced.

Center: 45 degree balanced.

Right: Face Balanced

The results of offset and non-offset putters:

Think of it as this: (If your missing your putts to the left- Right Handed Player)

1- If you putt with a toe weighted putter, the club face will stay open longer during the stroke because the heal is lighter and will pass slightly quicker then the toe of the club. Helping pull shots to stay online.

2- If you putt with a 45 degree balanced putter, the club face will stay open not as long as the toe weighted putter but slightly longer then the face balanced putter during the stroke because the heal is slightly lighter and will pass slightly quicker then the toe of the club. Helping pull shots to stay online.

3- If you putt with a face balanced putter, the club face should go straight back to straight through.

Offset or Non-Offset Putters

The more offset your putter, the less left you will hit your shots. (Right handed player) The offset helps the putter face to stay behind a little more helping the average player to hit to the right. So if you are always missing your shots to the left, consider using a offset putter.

No matter what level of golfer you are, finding the best putter for your putting stroke will be your first step to improved putting.  The types of putters you choose from is significant, as it is the single club which you will utilize much more than every other during a round of golf. Becoming a decent or even great putter involves a putter that is exact for you.

Heal and Center Shaft Putter:

Think of it:

A center shafted putter will stay straight during:
1- Straight Back and Through Stroke

A heal shafted putter will help players that has a tendency to pull their shots to the left. 2- Inside to Inside Stroke – Ark Stroke

 

From what I’ve read, if you have a straight back and thru putting stroke then a center shafted putter is better suited for you.

If putting stroke has a bit of an arc, then heel shafted is possibly a better choice.

Go see your Golf Professional and try many putters with different offsets and different shaft position to help your game.

By the way: If you ten to always push to the right, what kind of putter are you using??, is it a toe weighted putter????

Hope this helped!

Good golfing!

 

The players will be aiming at red wicker-topped pins at this year’s US Open !

Every pin on the East Course, opened in 1912 and the shortest used for a major since 2004, is topped with a wicker basket rather than a flag.

The exact origin of the idea remains a bit of a mystery and the identity of the person who makes them is kept a secret.

The origin of the baskets remains a mystery, but one story involves Hugh Wilson, the designer of the East Course in Ardmore, Pa. Wilson, a fine player, had never designed a course so he took a seven-month trip to Scotland and England. One day, he came upon sheep herders and their flocks and noticed the staffs the herders held all had wicker baskets at one end. Further investigation revealed that the herders kept their lunch in the wicker baskets as a convenience — and to keep their food away from animals.

Wilson liked the idea for the top of his flag sticks at the course he had yet to build. The look is unique, the maker of the baskets unknown (the club tightly guards that secret) and the impact will be measured on windy days.

“The most interesting aspect of Merion is the wicker basket flags,” said Peter Jacobson, who played in the 1981 U.S. Open, the last time Merion hosted, and is now an NBC golf analyst. “I was surprised and excited to see that, but also disappointed because you can’t really see the direction that the wind is blowing. And on a tight golf course like Merion, you need to know where the wind is coming from.”

The wicker baskets — which are removed at the end of each day to thwart any theft — set atop heavy metal flag sticks, so they won’t give off any indication of wind, either. And with players being creatures of habit, doing the same thing over and over again such as checking the flag atop the flag stick to sense the wind strength and direction, it could throw off many players.

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Rory McIlroy walks off at 7 over

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Rory McIlroy walked off the course on his ninth hole Friday and straight to his car, withdrawing from the Honda Classic after going 7-over par.

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Proposed Ban of Anchored Putting

PGA Tour Made the Right Decision in Opposing the USGA’s Proposed Ban of Anchored Putting

This is a article from Chris King, I had to send this out, I use this type of putter and would not like to see this putter become illegal.

The PGA Tour has announced its opposition to the USGA and R&A’s ban on anchored putting strokes, a position that has outraged some of the game’s traditionalists.
Make no mistake, the Tour, along with the PGA of America and the National Golf Course Owners Association, made the right decision in their opposition to the ban.
Forms of anchoring have been around for decades and no great harm has come to the game. Nor will it going forward.
If the USGA and R&A were so offended by an anchored putting stroke, they should’ve acted years ago.
The hybrid putting stroke wasn’t a problem until Ernie Els used it to win the British Open and Webb Simpson anchored his way to the U.S. Open championship. At that point it became more than the game’s superiors could stand.
If the USGA and R&A have evidence that anchoring makes the game fundamentally easier, they should present it. The vast majority will then oppose anchored strokes the way they do the Polara golf ball.
That evidence has yet to emerge, and I’m not holding my breath awaiting its arrival. Neither should you.
This isn’t about “cheating,” it’s about perception and a pair of organizations that embrace new trends about as readily as North Korea. The proposed ban has its roots in the same type of decision making that got Michael Jordan banned from a private course for wearing cargo shorts.
Jordan didn’t wear proper golf apparel. Anchored putting isn’t a real stroke.
Get real.
All that aside, the plight of professional golfers shouldn’t be the concern, in this case, of a pair of organizations that are at least superficially interested in growing the game.
It’s the amateur player that should be the focus. Do 20 percent of players use an anchored putting stroke, as Finchem asserted? The number almost surely isn’t that high, but what if it’s 7 percent?
A struggling industry shouldn’t risk alienating a not-so-insignificant portion of its customer base over a “stroke” that has yet to harm the game, despite a few anguished cries.
If the ban causes anyone to leave the game or play less (and I believe it will), golf’s governing bodies are committing a crime against the game they are entrusted to protect.

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