Release Drill will Get Your Putts Rolling on Line (Video) - by Pete Styles
Release Drill will Get Your Putts Rolling on Line (Video) - by Pete Styles

You often find that with bad putters and people that miss a lot of putts they almost know they’re going to miss the putt before they’ve even hit it. And sadly as soon as they’ve hit it they know it’s going to miss. They kind of tap and they look up almost ashamed and embarrassed as if one does often get. Part of the problem here is they’re not hitting the putt with any confidence, they’re not releasing the golf club correctly, they’re not rolling the ball smoothly enough. Different with a good putter; a good putter makes a nice stroke, stays down, knows he’s hit it well, looks up and tracks the ball straight into the middle of the whole.

So, here’s a great drill to help you with releasing the club on line when you’re putting, making sure you get the ball rolling smoothly end over end at the right speed. Simply going to take the club in the right hand if you’re a right handed golfer, place your left hand over your right bicep. This is a great way of just making sure that you’re right hand just releases the club around here and stops it from either slowing down or blocking an opening in the club face up. So, if I was to that that would mean the club handle was leading the club head. But if I have my right hand – sorry, my left hand in my right bicep and then just turn through, that’s really going to let the club head release nicely past the right hand. Now this is different from a full swing release where we’re turning the hands, there’s no real excessive turning force here. This is just letting the club head swing nice and smoothly, nice and freely down the target line. So, you can go ahead and practice that a few times in the mirror at home making sure the knees, the hips, the head, the chest, everything’s nice and still and just let the right hand release the club then go ahead and roll a few putts down there with the same thing. And just notice how in the finish the club head has gone past the handle and we haven’t forced it this way, which with my hand in here is a very awkward feeling, it’s just naturally releasing that I think would make you a better putter and get more putts rolling nicely in the whole. 2014-01-20

You often find that with bad putters and people that miss a lot of putts they almost know they’re going to miss the putt before they’ve even hit it. And sadly as soon as they’ve hit it they know it’s going to miss. They kind of tap and they look up almost ashamed and embarrassed as if one does often get. Part of the problem here is they’re not hitting the putt with any confidence, they’re not releasing the golf club correctly, they’re not rolling the ball smoothly enough. Different with a good putter; a good putter makes a nice stroke, stays down, knows he’s hit it well, looks up and tracks the ball straight into the middle of the whole.

So, here’s a great drill to help you with releasing the club on line when you’re putting, making sure you get the ball rolling smoothly end over end at the right speed. Simply going to take the club in the right hand if you’re a right handed golfer, place your left hand over your right bicep. This is a great way of just making sure that you’re right hand just releases the club around here and stops it from either slowing down or blocking an opening in the club face up. So, if I was to that that would mean the club handle was leading the club head. But if I have my right hand – sorry, my left hand in my right bicep and then just turn through, that’s really going to let the club head release nicely past the right hand.

Now this is different from a full swing release where we’re turning the hands, there’s no real excessive turning force here. This is just letting the club head swing nice and smoothly, nice and freely down the target line. So, you can go ahead and practice that a few times in the mirror at home making sure the knees, the hips, the head, the chest, everything’s nice and still and just let the right hand release the club then go ahead and roll a few putts down there with the same thing. And just notice how in the finish the club head has gone past the handle and we haven’t forced it this way, which with my hand in here is a very awkward feeling, it’s just naturally releasing that I think would make you a better putter and get more putts rolling nicely in the whole.