Putting Lesson, Keep Left Wrist Firm During The Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles
Putting Lesson, Keep Left Wrist Firm During The Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now this is an absolutely easy question for me to answer should you keep your left wrist firm when you are in your golf putting stroke absolutely yes. It’s a putting lesson that I probably give three times every single day when I’m teaching putting is people breaking their left wrist down, lets define that as the front wrist. So for the left handers out there we will call it the front wrist. So when we are setting up to the ball putting there will be a small little cup in that front wrist and it’s important that cup is maintained throughout the whole stroke.

We don’t want to therefore flatten that cup out and then we don’t want to re-hinge it on the way through. The problem with that is as massively inconsistent in terms of the pace of the putt but also the direction of the putt. It goes left and right because the club swings around to the left and the right but it also goes long and short because this changes the speed that we are making our putting stroke. So we want to make sure that the angle that we have set in the start of the putting stroke is maintained throughout. So what I would suggest you do here is have a good look at that left wrist that front wrist there. Make the stroke back and through and then stop again and check it. So if I have a putt here and I’m going to do this one deliberately badly I’m setting up there looking at my left wrist I can see how much flex it has, I make my putt, I flick my wrist the ball racing too far past, I look and I think that’s changed. If I bring that back down to the start look how much that wrist is flicked and hinged and that definitely a good thing --. If I was to make this putt slightly better this time I set up my front wrist I check the angle on it, I go ahead and make my stroke rolling it down towards the hole little bit bubbly that one. But I look at my wrist and I think that’s the same position it started if I bring my arms and shoulders back down the club then comes back to its perfect position. So I know that my front wrist didn’t change angle, didn’t change shape. And that’s really important putting lesson if you want to be a consistent putter don’t let that front wrist change shape or change angle at all. 2014-10-07

Now this is an absolutely easy question for me to answer should you keep your left wrist firm when you are in your golf putting stroke absolutely yes. It’s a putting lesson that I probably give three times every single day when I’m teaching putting is people breaking their left wrist down, lets define that as the front wrist. So for the left handers out there we will call it the front wrist. So when we are setting up to the ball putting there will be a small little cup in that front wrist and it’s important that cup is maintained throughout the whole stroke.

We don’t want to therefore flatten that cup out and then we don’t want to re-hinge it on the way through. The problem with that is as massively inconsistent in terms of the pace of the putt but also the direction of the putt. It goes left and right because the club swings around to the left and the right but it also goes long and short because this changes the speed that we are making our putting stroke.

So we want to make sure that the angle that we have set in the start of the putting stroke is maintained throughout. So what I would suggest you do here is have a good look at that left wrist that front wrist there. Make the stroke back and through and then stop again and check it. So if I have a putt here and I’m going to do this one deliberately badly I’m setting up there looking at my left wrist I can see how much flex it has, I make my putt, I flick my wrist the ball racing too far past, I look and I think that’s changed.

If I bring that back down to the start look how much that wrist is flicked and hinged and that definitely a good thing –. If I was to make this putt slightly better this time I set up my front wrist I check the angle on it, I go ahead and make my stroke rolling it down towards the hole little bit bubbly that one. But I look at my wrist and I think that’s the same position it started if I bring my arms and shoulders back down the club then comes back to its perfect position. So I know that my front wrist didn’t change angle, didn’t change shape. And that’s really important putting lesson if you want to be a consistent putter don’t let that front wrist change shape or change angle at all.