Proper Putting Grip, Key to Straight-Back-Straight-Through Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles
Proper Putting Grip, Key to Straight-Back-Straight-Through Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles

We are often told that when we are trying to hold clubs we want to try and make the club come straight-back and-straight through as much as possible. Although that might be factually correct it’s actually incredibly difficult to get the club to come perfectly straight back and perfectly straight through and unless we were to start like a croquet player and swing the club this way, there will always be a little element of the inside, outside in the putting stroke. But we are trying to make the stroke a straight-back and straight-through if that’s the way you want to play that’s the stroke you have and the putter that you have. If you have a face balance putter, generally that would indicate that you should making more of a straight through a stroke. So straight- back, straight-through we look at the cross here. A place may come nicely over the cross I’d like the club to come relatively straight back and relatively straight-through. Now along the stroke you might have a little bit of inside but we don’t really want to make him too much of a gated action here. And to encourage a straight-back straight-through action, it’s important till we get the proper putting grip in the right position. And ideally we got the risk in a down cupped position or an un-cupped position.

So an un-cupped position made famous and I really by the way Steve Striker puts in and he has very high hands laid in a cup position puts right now and said, “The easiest way I can encourage you to make this position its just a little simple exercise. Take your hands put them on chest high and point your fingers like a kid would make a pistol and then point your fingers on the floor, try and point them downwards. And that’s a down cupped or an un-cupped wrist position. That way we suggest he is cupped up. That would be a down cup position. So if I keep my left wrist in this down cup position, and then place on the putter right wrist like a pistol down cupped and then on the putter . Push my hands quite a high position that would encourage more of a straight-back and straight-through stroke as opposed to a lower hand in an up cup position that would encourage more of a turn around the line. So I want to make a straight-back and straight-through along that line. If you’re a straight back and straight-through putter, you got to face balance putter which you think is helping you take the club straight-back and straight-through try the down cup wrist position shooting the pistol into that position make sure your proper putting grip is that way and that would hopefully encourage you to make a more of a straight-back and straight- through putting stroke. 2014-01-20

We are often told that when we are trying to hold clubs we want to try and make the club come straight-back and-straight through as much as possible. Although that might be factually correct it’s actually incredibly difficult to get the club to come perfectly straight back and perfectly straight through and unless we were to start like a croquet player and swing the club this way, there will always be a little element of the inside, outside in the putting stroke. But we are trying to make the stroke a straight-back and straight-through if that’s the way you want to play that’s the stroke you have and the putter that you have. If you have a face balance putter, generally that would indicate that you should making more of a straight through a stroke. So straight- back, straight-through we look at the cross here. A place may come nicely over the cross I’d like the club to come relatively straight back and relatively straight-through. Now along the stroke you might have a little bit of inside but we don’t really want to make him too much of a gated action here. And to encourage a straight-back straight-through action, it’s important till we get the proper putting grip in the right position. And ideally we got the risk in a down cupped position or an un-cupped position.

So an un-cupped position made famous and I really by the way Steve Striker puts in and he has very high hands laid in a cup position puts right now and said, “The easiest way I can encourage you to make this position its just a little simple exercise. Take your hands put them on chest high and point your fingers like a kid would make a pistol and then point your fingers on the floor, try and point them downwards. And that’s a down cupped or an un-cupped wrist position. That way we suggest he is cupped up. That would be a down cup position. So if I keep my left wrist in this down cup position, and then place on the putter right wrist like a pistol down cupped and then on the putter . Push my hands quite a high position that would encourage more of a straight-back and straight-through stroke as opposed to a lower hand in an up cup position that would encourage more of a turn around the line. So I want to make a straight-back and straight-through along that line. If you’re a straight back and straight-through putter, you got to face balance putter which you think is helping you take the club straight-back and straight-through try the down cup wrist position shooting the pistol into that position make sure your proper putting grip is that way and that would hopefully encourage you to make a more of a straight-back and straight- through putting stroke.