What Should I Focus On At Impact For More Accurate Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Should I Focus On At Impact For More Accurate Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles

So here is the moment of truth, this is the important bit, this is what everything else is building up to; what should we do at impact as we are striking the golf putt? Now the crucial thing here is to actually do very little and not to overthink the situation about how the club should actually strike the ball. If you’ve done everything right in the prelude to this, so you’ve got yourself a good setup, you’ve read the green, you’ve aimed correctly, you’ve taken a backswing, and you’re on your way through to a good follow through; the impact position you can just stay nice and passive and just let everything else happen.

The only issue that I would ever see anybody have here at impact is when they start to influence the club by almost hitting the ball. They come towards impact they think, oh I’m nearly there, I’ll hit it now. And that hit almost becomes the yips where people start to change the angle of the face, the speed of the face, or even the position of the face therefore they get a bad strike. So if we’ve lined everything else up – lined up everything up correctly, read it correctly, we’ve got a nice smooth stroke as soon as the club starts moving down, it’s on its way to its finish position, just switch your brain off and get out of the way. Don’t try and influence what’s going on here and try to steer the ball to the hole or hit the ball into the hole. Your only job at impact is to keep looking down at the golf ball to keep your head still, focus on a nice smooth impact position where you hit the sweet spot of the golf club apart from that don’t try and influence what’s going on. Everything’s is going to happen because you’ve step it up in the right place, you’ve read it correctly, and you are on its way to a nice finish position don’t try and change too much. If you over think impact you start to incorporate a hit or a reflex and you start to end up with a yips. So for impact position switch your brain off, step to the side and just let the club come through nicely. 2014-10-13

So here is the moment of truth, this is the important bit, this is what everything else is building up to; what should we do at impact as we are striking the golf putt? Now the crucial thing here is to actually do very little and not to overthink the situation about how the club should actually strike the ball. If you’ve done everything right in the prelude to this, so you’ve got yourself a good setup, you’ve read the green, you’ve aimed correctly, you’ve taken a backswing, and you’re on your way through to a good follow through; the impact position you can just stay nice and passive and just let everything else happen.

The only issue that I would ever see anybody have here at impact is when they start to influence the club by almost hitting the ball. They come towards impact they think, oh I’m nearly there, I’ll hit it now. And that hit almost becomes the yips where people start to change the angle of the face, the speed of the face, or even the position of the face therefore they get a bad strike. So if we’ve lined everything else up – lined up everything up correctly, read it correctly, we’ve got a nice smooth stroke as soon as the club starts moving down, it’s on its way to its finish position, just switch your brain off and get out of the way.

Don’t try and influence what’s going on here and try to steer the ball to the hole or hit the ball into the hole. Your only job at impact is to keep looking down at the golf ball to keep your head still, focus on a nice smooth impact position where you hit the sweet spot of the golf club apart from that don’t try and influence what’s going on. Everything’s is going to happen because you’ve step it up in the right place, you’ve read it correctly, and you are on its way to a nice finish position don’t try and change too much.

If you over think impact you start to incorporate a hit or a reflex and you start to end up with a yips. So for impact position switch your brain off, step to the side and just let the club come through nicely.