What Should I Focus On During My Follow Through For More Accurate Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Should I Focus On During My Follow Through For More Accurate Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles

So similar to the follow-through of a full golf swing, the follow-through when you are putting is still quite important. A lot of people would consider that well, once I’ve the putt surely it doesn’t matter what I do. But it does matter what you do because your body is preparing for its follow-through during the downswing and the impact phase. So if we have a good follow-through we hit the putt and we hold the finish. The club has traveled the right distance past the ball in the right direction, and that controls the distance and the direction of the ball I’ve just hit.

If my follow-through hit the ball and stopped immediately there’s a big risk that the club would slow down before it gets to the golf ball. If I hit the ball and then have an excessively long follow-through, chances are it’s accelerating too much as it hits the ball, ball goes too far. If my follow-through is to the left or to the right, that could have an impact of affecting where that ball rolls too as well, because my club is doing the wrong thing as it hits the ball in preparation for the wrong thing in the finish. So the putting stroke is a nice even backswing, and then through the ball we want to keep even speed and even line. So as we get through to that finish position we haven’t adversely affected where the golf ball is gone or how the stroke was. So as I setup to this ball here I am going to step back take a couple of practice strokes. My practice stroke, I hold my follow-through just for the count of two, back down again look at the hole, stroke through, hold for the count of two; one more time back through hold for the count of two. Now when I strike this putt everything is lined up nicely, back and through, and hold my follow-through for the count of two there and the ball goes in; it’s nice to see. What was happening there was through the ball my follow-through was consistent, it wasn’t adversely affecting what my putting stroke was doing through the impact area. One other key thing to focus on when you are taking your putts is don’t be too quick to look up and see where they’ll roll to. We quite often talk about how we would like to hear the ball dropping into the hole rather than looking up ,to see it go straight in. So we make a nice putting stroke here the ball rolls off then we turn the head. Anyone that’s caught turning the head too early is often also caught turning the shoulders, hips, and knees too early. So be nice and passive with the head through impact, nice and consistent with the putting stroke through impact, and if your follow-through is good so should your putts be good. 2014-10-13

So similar to the follow-through of a full golf swing, the follow-through when you are putting is still quite important. A lot of people would consider that well, once I’ve the putt surely it doesn’t matter what I do. But it does matter what you do because your body is preparing for its follow-through during the downswing and the impact phase. So if we have a good follow-through we hit the putt and we hold the finish. The club has traveled the right distance past the ball in the right direction, and that controls the distance and the direction of the ball I’ve just hit.

If my follow-through hit the ball and stopped immediately there’s a big risk that the club would slow down before it gets to the golf ball. If I hit the ball and then have an excessively long follow-through, chances are it’s accelerating too much as it hits the ball, ball goes too far. If my follow-through is to the left or to the right, that could have an impact of affecting where that ball rolls too as well, because my club is doing the wrong thing as it hits the ball in preparation for the wrong thing in the finish.

So the putting stroke is a nice even backswing, and then through the ball we want to keep even speed and even line. So as we get through to that finish position we haven’t adversely affected where the golf ball is gone or how the stroke was. So as I setup to this ball here I am going to step back take a couple of practice strokes. My practice stroke, I hold my follow-through just for the count of two, back down again look at the hole, stroke through, hold for the count of two; one more time back through hold for the count of two.

Now when I strike this putt everything is lined up nicely, back and through, and hold my follow-through for the count of two there and the ball goes in; it’s nice to see. What was happening there was through the ball my follow-through was consistent, it wasn’t adversely affecting what my putting stroke was doing through the impact area. One other key thing to focus on when you are taking your putts is don’t be too quick to look up and see where they’ll roll to. We quite often talk about how we would like to hear the ball dropping into the hole rather than looking up ,to see it go straight in. So we make a nice putting stroke here the ball rolls off then we turn the head.

Anyone that’s caught turning the head too early is often also caught turning the shoulders, hips, and knees too early. So be nice and passive with the head through impact, nice and consistent with the putting stroke through impact, and if your follow-through is good so should your putts be good.