RNG
Well-known member
I'm a shoulder rocker on short putts (0-10 ft) but on the longer ones I find I need my hands more involved to get the distance right.
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its definitley (a putter fitting) something I should do again. It's been at least 10 years since, I went through one.When we played together, I was still working through my definition of how my stroke should be. It worked really well with the SeeMore putter line, but I am here openly admitting that I do make some alterations to putt with a plumbers neck (ball back a bit, hands forward a bit, more of a shallow follow through) to promote quality forward roll.
I only added this notation to say that many times, you don't need to change your stroke but rather the putter you are using (and headweight for that matter). That's why there are so many quality options out there! Don't discount the idea of a genuine putter fitting.
I use a shoulder rock and hands are very quiet in my stroke.
The putting stroke will contain some amount of hand/wrist action. It has to. Otherwise if you keep your hands/wrists locked tight, you will make a poor putting stroke.
The problem of course comes in when there's too much hands/wrist or that hand/wrist action is done consciously. Then the putting stroke becomes extremely varied and extremely difficult to repeat with any consistency.
Here's my biggest two putting tips.
1) Get comfortable over the ball. Address the ball in an athletic posture which allows your arms to hang naturally. If you're not able to relax your body, you're doing it wrong.
2) Remove all tension from your stroke (step #1 being extremely important in this). Decide on your line and just let the putter flow squarely down that line without tension. This will also allow your shoulders/arms and hands/wrists to work naturally, with the proper amount of input from each.
The fine folks at SeeMore deserve credit for pointing out #2 to me. It was like a bolt of lighting when I realized how much tension had been in my stroke, and the improvement was immediate and dramatic.
i tend to disagree with the first part, but definitely agree with #2!
Nobody is understanding what I'm saying in that first part, but hey, won't be the last time I'm sure.
So so does anyone else putt with arms more so than hands or shoulders?