What Should I Focus On To Start My Backswing During My Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Should I Focus On To Start My Backswing During My Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now if you’ve done your pre-shot routine and your pre-shot preparation correctly, you’ve got everything lined up nicely, you’ve got your body lined up nicely, you’ve the club lined up nicely, everything is pointing perfectly towards your hole or towards the target pathway you want the ball to go. Then you’ve set yourself up nicely, you have that little momentary pause when you’ve got energy thoughts and now you're ready to pull the trigger. And at that point a lot of things go wrong for a lot of golfers. Because it's at that point when they're pulling you know the trigger that they make the wrong move. They don’t stop the club back on a smooth arc, it deviates offline, they spend the rest of that stroke trying to compensate for it and ultimately that has a detrimental effect on where he ball finishes.

So it's really important and we start the back swing with the correct movement. And really to start the back swing, only to consider using your big muscles and ultimately your left shoulder is going to control this motion. So as I set up nicely here I want to see the club moving back in a straight arc as possible. I definitely don’t want it to go outside or inside too much, and I want to take it back to the right degree, the right amount of length of stroke. So if I set it up nicely here and I use my left shoulder to control this, my left shoulder just pushes down a little bit, my right shoulder rises up and then I conversely rock it back the other way. So it's very much my shoulders controlling the action. What we definitely want to avoid is any hands and arms lifting and picking up in this fashion. That's really not going to do us any favors. So it's a good setup, the shoulders rock by -- the shoulders rock through and that helps me really control the length of putt and the pace of putt that I'm hitting. So when you’ve aligned yourself up and you're happy that you're in the right position, you're about to pull the trigger, kick off this swing with a shoulder direction not hands and arms. And if you can start the club back on the right line, it’ll come down on the right line and hit much more consistent putts for line and for length. 2014-10-15

Now if you’ve done your pre-shot routine and your pre-shot preparation correctly, you’ve got everything lined up nicely, you’ve got your body lined up nicely, you’ve the club lined up nicely, everything is pointing perfectly towards your hole or towards the target pathway you want the ball to go. Then you’ve set yourself up nicely, you have that little momentary pause when you’ve got energy thoughts and now you're ready to pull the trigger. And at that point a lot of things go wrong for a lot of golfers. Because it's at that point when they're pulling you know the trigger that they make the wrong move. They don’t stop the club back on a smooth arc, it deviates offline, they spend the rest of that stroke trying to compensate for it and ultimately that has a detrimental effect on where he ball finishes.

So it's really important and we start the back swing with the correct movement. And really to start the back swing, only to consider using your big muscles and ultimately your left shoulder is going to control this motion. So as I set up nicely here I want to see the club moving back in a straight arc as possible. I definitely don’t want it to go outside or inside too much, and I want to take it back to the right degree, the right amount of length of stroke. So if I set it up nicely here and I use my left shoulder to control this, my left shoulder just pushes down a little bit, my right shoulder rises up and then I conversely rock it back the other way. So it's very much my shoulders controlling the action.

What we definitely want to avoid is any hands and arms lifting and picking up in this fashion. That's really not going to do us any favors. So it's a good setup, the shoulders rock by — the shoulders rock through and that helps me really control the length of putt and the pace of putt that I'm hitting. So when you’ve aligned yourself up and you're happy that you're in the right position, you're about to pull the trigger, kick off this swing with a shoulder direction not hands and arms. And if you can start the club back on the right line, it’ll come down on the right line and hit much more consistent putts for line and for length.