Should I Try To Accelerate During My Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles
Should I Try To Accelerate During My Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles

Should you try and accelerate when you’re making a putting stroke? Simple answer is absolutely yes. I think when you consider how other sports are played and how we use our body to make other sporting actions, it’s quite obvious that we’re more consistent, more accurate, when we accelerate. If we look at somebody throwing a dart for example, we throw a dart with a short back lift and then a long positive throw towards the board. We wouldn’t throw a dart with a big backs stroke and a lot of tap. Like when playing pool or snooker, it’s there and then it’s got a positive push through to the target same needs to apply to a golf putting stroke.

First thing is, we want to get this putt to the hole, we want to get it rolling up to or past the hole. We want to be nice and positive. And if we have a long back stroke and then we get scared of it and decelerate, that’s not going to happen. And also the decelerating here is going to change the angle of the club face and make the club face aim left or right. So we want to be more positive. Shot back and then push the putter through to the hole. If I roll a putt down here, you’ll see my putter will be shot back and then be very positive push through. It really rolls towards the hole quite nicely. You look at the length of that follow through, that’s a massive follow through for what’s only a 10 or 12 foot putt, but if my back swing was as long as my follow through, probably go way too far. So it’s very much one third back accelerate through. And if you feel you are negative putter but you’re too passive that the putts always finishing shot of the hole, well it’s not been a lot more positive one third back, to two thirds through. Feel like you accelerate, feel like you are throwing darts into the middle of the hole, and you too will hold more golf putts. 2014-10-07

Should you try and accelerate when you’re making a putting stroke? Simple answer is absolutely yes. I think when you consider how other sports are played and how we use our body to make other sporting actions, it’s quite obvious that we’re more consistent, more accurate, when we accelerate. If we look at somebody throwing a dart for example, we throw a dart with a short back lift and then a long positive throw towards the board. We wouldn’t throw a dart with a big backs stroke and a lot of tap. Like when playing pool or snooker, it’s there and then it’s got a positive push through to the target same needs to apply to a golf putting stroke.

First thing is, we want to get this putt to the hole, we want to get it rolling up to or past the hole. We want to be nice and positive. And if we have a long back stroke and then we get scared of it and decelerate, that’s not going to happen. And also the decelerating here is going to change the angle of the club face and make the club face aim left or right. So we want to be more positive. Shot back and then push the putter through to the hole. If I roll a putt down here, you’ll see my putter will be shot back and then be very positive push through. It really rolls towards the hole quite nicely.

You look at the length of that follow through, that’s a massive follow through for what’s only a 10 or 12 foot putt, but if my back swing was as long as my follow through, probably go way too far. So it’s very much one third back accelerate through. And if you feel you are negative putter but you’re too passive that the putts always finishing shot of the hole, well it’s not been a lot more positive one third back, to two thirds through. Feel like you accelerate, feel like you are throwing darts into the middle of the hole, and you too will hold more golf putts.