Should My Rear Hand Release During The Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles
Should My Rear Hand Release During The Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles

Should your rear hand release during your golf putting stroke? Well a simple answer to this is no. And the slightly more complicated answer is yes but only occasionally and very rarely. So the answer is no when we’re setting up to a putt, we’ve talked a lot about how we don’t want the wrist to have too much influence it should be a straight back and a straight through, therefore the rear hand isn’t releasing and isn’t hinging. The angle of the right hand for me is a right handed golfer, the angle of the right hand sets with the start is maintained throughout the whole stroke and it doesn’t release or flick that angle. But the caveat with this is very occasional when we’ve got very long putts we’re putting the length to the green. We might feel it’s too hard or too far to hit it just with the shoulders and we might actually include a little bit of wrist hinge just to get the putter moving a little bit more quickly.

This might be very long putts or even putts from the fringe of the green where we just feel like we need to accelerate the putter head. The important thing to appreciate here is the right hand doesn’t release in an over motion like it would do in a normal golf stroke or drive it releases almost and under motion. So looking towards the camera here the right hand releases more under rather than over to the right hand would come under this way. It’s not a technique you would necessarily need to practice if your right hand needs to release and the stroke is long enough that it requires that it will kind of be able to do it on its own, you’ll feel that the right hand wants to release on the longer strokes yet shouldn’t on the shorter strokes. If you feel like your consciously flicking your putter, there’s probably too much of a flick creeping into all of your putting action. So your rear hand only needs to release very, very infrequently on very long putts and quite often you won’t need to think about doing it, you’ll just think about swinging in the club longer and that will find its own way to help the club release on those longer putts. 2014-10-13

Should your rear hand release during your golf putting stroke? Well a simple answer to this is no. And the slightly more complicated answer is yes but only occasionally and very rarely. So the answer is no when we’re setting up to a putt, we’ve talked a lot about how we don’t want the wrist to have too much influence it should be a straight back and a straight through, therefore the rear hand isn’t releasing and isn’t hinging. The angle of the right hand for me is a right handed golfer, the angle of the right hand sets with the start is maintained throughout the whole stroke and it doesn’t release or flick that angle. But the caveat with this is very occasional when we’ve got very long putts we’re putting the length to the green. We might feel it’s too hard or too far to hit it just with the shoulders and we might actually include a little bit of wrist hinge just to get the putter moving a little bit more quickly.

This might be very long putts or even putts from the fringe of the green where we just feel like we need to accelerate the putter head. The important thing to appreciate here is the right hand doesn’t release in an over motion like it would do in a normal golf stroke or drive it releases almost and under motion. So looking towards the camera here the right hand releases more under rather than over to the right hand would come under this way. It’s not a technique you would necessarily need to practice if your right hand needs to release and the stroke is long enough that it requires that it will kind of be able to do it on its own, you’ll feel that the right hand wants to release on the longer strokes yet shouldn’t on the shorter strokes. If you feel like your consciously flicking your putter, there’s probably too much of a flick creeping into all of your putting action. So your rear hand only needs to release very, very infrequently on very long putts and quite often you won’t need to think about doing it, you’ll just think about swinging in the club longer and that will find its own way to help the club release on those longer putts.