Plumb Bob Putting, How To Use A Pendulum Plumb-Bob Method For Lining Up Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles
Plumb Bob Putting, How To Use A Pendulum Plumb-Bob Method For Lining Up Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now we all know from watching golfers on the TV they have some quirky little habits and this is one of the strangest I find, you see a guy walk up onto a green and he’s surveying his put and then he starts holding his club up like this and looking down. And as a know golfer watching like you think what is he doing here. And I’ll be honest with you, as a golfer, I’m still thinking what is he doing here because I have never seen the benefit of doing this, but I’ve seen a lot of people who use it religiously use it every round of play. So maybe they know something I don’t know, maybe they are using it to help them line puts up. The way the technique is set to work, is that if you can hang something vertically downwards which is a plumb bob putting like this, gravity just pulls it straight down. You can then look to the left side and right side of that vertical line and you can actually start to see the contours of the green a little bit better. Effectively you can see what’s the high side and the low side because you’ve got this vertical axis to look from. So if you are lining up puts and you are really struggling to see the contours of the green and you are hitting puts left let them break further left or hitting puts right then break further right, maybe the plumb bob method will help you. Best way get down low to the surface, hold the club up directly out in front of you, and then just shut one eye look through your dominant eye. Hold the club there, try and see that whole sitting behind the putter up and see which side is high, which side is low and if that vertical axis there can help you identify the high side and the low side it’s then easier to read your putt, hit the ball up the high side, let it break down the hill think about the way water would flow, let the ball curve in towards the hole. And maybe the plumb bob putting method could help you hold more putts.

2014-03-26

Now we all know from watching golfers on the TV they have some quirky little habits and this is one of the strangest I find, you see a guy walk up onto a green and he’s surveying his put and then he starts holding his club up like this and looking down. And as a know golfer watching like you think what is he doing here. And I’ll be honest with you, as a golfer, I’m still thinking what is he doing here because I have never seen the benefit of doing this, but I’ve seen a lot of people who use it religiously use it every round of play. So maybe they know something I don’t know, maybe they are using it to help them line puts up. The way the technique is set to work, is that if you can hang something vertically downwards which is a plumb bob putting like this, gravity just pulls it straight down. You can then look to the left side and right side of that vertical line and you can actually start to see the contours of the green a little bit better. Effectively you can see what’s the high side and the low side because you’ve got this vertical axis to look from. So if you are lining up puts and you are really struggling to see the contours of the green and you are hitting puts left let them break further left or hitting puts right then break further right, maybe the plumb bob method will help you. Best way get down low to the surface, hold the club up directly out in front of you, and then just shut one eye look through your dominant eye. Hold the club there, try and see that whole sitting behind the putter up and see which side is high, which side is low and if that vertical axis there can help you identify the high side and the low side it’s then easier to read your putt, hit the ball up the high side, let it break down the hill think about the way water would flow, let the ball curve in towards the hole. And maybe the plumb bob putting method could help you hold more putts.