What Should I Focus On During My Down Stroke For More Accurate Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Should I Focus On During My Down Stroke For More Accurate Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles

There’s a lot that actually happens in a very small space of time in a putting stroke. But if we look specifically at what happens to the putter face during the down stroke, we want to try and be as consistent as we can with this down stroke. We’ve got to really produce some good accurate lines on these putts; we want the ball to be rolling in this case straight towards the camera. So one of the things you’ve got to focus on, once you’ve got ourselves set up and we’ve created a good back swing is how we can we deliver that club back of that ball in the most consistent fashion?

There’s two things that we got to affect it. We’ve got to affect the path the club is taking, we’ve got to be able to affect the club face angle as well, the club face position. Now the club face position, the angle of the club face is by far the biggest influential factor of where that golf ball goes. So that therefore will be our priority. Now if we’ve made a good back swing, the club should have come back and the line on the back of the putter, therefore the putter face, should still be square to target and aiming straight. As long as we therefore deliver that club through and keep it as square and as straight as possible for as long as possible, then we should get more accurate putts. What we really want to avoid is letting that club head twist or turn too early in the down stroke. As we hit through the putt, we keep it square and straight, try and get it past your left little toe, still aiming in a straight line, as it comes through this area we then might see as a longer putt happens it would start to turn a little putt. You know if you’ve got one of those putts across the length of the green you would expect a little bit of turn in the follow through, but if the great is decks down through the hitting zone we want that club to be aiming as straight in a square as possible. The other consideration there is the path, now we don’t want the path to deviate too much, so we could have a path if I just knock that ball out of the way, we could have a path that comes in too much, or a path that kicks out too much. Now that’s not necessarily changing the face angle, the face angle is still square to target but the path is incorrect, the path is in and the path is out. That would create poled and pushed putts. So putts them as left, putts them as right. So as I’m delivering my club in the down stroke we want straight through to the target line for the aim of the putter, but also for the path of the putter. And if you can produce a good down stroke that produces a straight path on a square club face, you’ll hit a lot more accurate putts. 2014-10-10

There’s a lot that actually happens in a very small space of time in a putting stroke. But if we look specifically at what happens to the putter face during the down stroke, we want to try and be as consistent as we can with this down stroke. We’ve got to really produce some good accurate lines on these putts; we want the ball to be rolling in this case straight towards the camera. So one of the things you’ve got to focus on, once you’ve got ourselves set up and we’ve created a good back swing is how we can we deliver that club back of that ball in the most consistent fashion?

There’s two things that we got to affect it. We’ve got to affect the path the club is taking, we’ve got to be able to affect the club face angle as well, the club face position. Now the club face position, the angle of the club face is by far the biggest influential factor of where that golf ball goes. So that therefore will be our priority.

Now if we’ve made a good back swing, the club should have come back and the line on the back of the putter, therefore the putter face, should still be square to target and aiming straight. As long as we therefore deliver that club through and keep it as square and as straight as possible for as long as possible, then we should get more accurate putts. What we really want to avoid is letting that club head twist or turn too early in the down stroke. As we hit through the putt, we keep it square and straight, try and get it past your left little toe, still aiming in a straight line, as it comes through this area we then might see as a longer putt happens it would start to turn a little putt.

You know if you’ve got one of those putts across the length of the green you would expect a little bit of turn in the follow through, but if the great is decks down through the hitting zone we want that club to be aiming as straight in a square as possible. The other consideration there is the path, now we don’t want the path to deviate too much, so we could have a path if I just knock that ball out of the way, we could have a path that comes in too much, or a path that kicks out too much.

Now that’s not necessarily changing the face angle, the face angle is still square to target but the path is incorrect, the path is in and the path is out. That would create poled and pushed putts. So putts them as left, putts them as right. So as I’m delivering my club in the down stroke we want straight through to the target line for the aim of the putter, but also for the path of the putter. And if you can produce a good down stroke that produces a straight path on a square club face, you’ll hit a lot more accurate putts.