Like all golf clubs your putter has a sweet spot and its as important to hit the putter sweet spot as it is with any other club and that’s often overlooked, when golfers are taking their putts they don’t really notice how they strike it on the face, they don’t really generate the feedback of whether they hit the middle of toe or the hill. The issues relating to not hitting the middle of toe or the heel are the fact that the club can twist and can change your distance control.

A ball that hits nicely in the center of the face will roll truer and straighter and possibly further, a ball that hits the toe or the hill will twist the club and wont roll as far. So sometimes you’ll hit a putt and it will just come up through three or four feet short and you blame the slow green or a bad stroke, but actually it was probably just a bad contact. So for the most of the time the biggest majority of putts you want to strike that ball exactly out of the middle and the sweet spots, so about the size of a small coin right in the middle of a putter and focus on hitting that area every time if you can.

The only time that some people would aim to deliberately not hit the middle of the club face is if they have very fast greens, very fast downhill putts. So if you got a putt that you think, “I just need to tickle it, I just need to breathe on it.” You can actually deliberately aim to hit that putt from the toe side. And hitting from the toe will just kill the putter a little bit like I mentioned, it wont hit it quite so far, but if that’s a good thing for you, you just hit on the toe side and it just trickles and rolls down gently to the hole, sometimes deliberately aiming for off center is a good thing.

But you need to understand where you are hitting it and how hitting it off center affects your putts. Most of the time aim for the red center it will give you more accurate putts or more accurate distance on your putts as well.