Where Should The Grip End Of The Golf Putter Point During My Followed Through (Video) - by Pete Styles
Where Should The Grip End Of The Golf Putter Point During My Followed Through (Video) - by Pete Styles

Here is a fairly specific question, specifically about the end of your putter. I have marked the end of the putter with this tee peg just so it’s easier for the video to see. So this question talks about where should this end of the putter point during the stroke and particularly in the follow-through. So we’ve got a good setup position here, we can see the tee peg at the end there, it’s just slightly off center it’s not pointing directly at my belly button it’s pointing slightly off center. That’s because the ball would be slightly off center my hand slightly ahead as well.

Now it’s important when I make my stroke that I keep this tee peg, this top end nice and consistent, nice and stable, and pushing forwards nicely here. You can it hasn’t changed shape in relation to my left forearm and wrist; it hasn’t gone backwards or forwards too much. The problem with this tee peg at this end flying around forwards and backwards too much like this is adversely at this end the club head is flying too much accelerating and decelerating too much. So what I’d like to see you do at the setup is take a relationship between the top of this club and the back of this left arm this front arm, keep that relationship the same back and the same through so as I look down there I can see that relationship doesn’t change, I don’t have closing and opening of this gap. And by having a tee peg up there it just helps me consider how that happens as I push through when I get into my follow through I can see the tee peg points to my left hip. If I flick too much and it points across to my right hip we know there’s big problems. So the tee peg points up to my left side and it stays pointing at my left side the whole way through. Any flicking, any hinging that’s a pretty classical bad habit in putting; and looking at the top hand of your grip is a great way to identify that problem. 2014-10-13

Here is a fairly specific question, specifically about the end of your putter. I have marked the end of the putter with this tee peg just so it’s easier for the video to see. So this question talks about where should this end of the putter point during the stroke and particularly in the follow-through. So we’ve got a good setup position here, we can see the tee peg at the end there, it’s just slightly off center it’s not pointing directly at my belly button it’s pointing slightly off center. That’s because the ball would be slightly off center my hand slightly ahead as well.

Now it’s important when I make my stroke that I keep this tee peg, this top end nice and consistent, nice and stable, and pushing forwards nicely here. You can it hasn’t changed shape in relation to my left forearm and wrist; it hasn’t gone backwards or forwards too much. The problem with this tee peg at this end flying around forwards and backwards too much like this is adversely at this end the club head is flying too much accelerating and decelerating too much.

So what I’d like to see you do at the setup is take a relationship between the top of this club and the back of this left arm this front arm, keep that relationship the same back and the same through so as I look down there I can see that relationship doesn’t change, I don’t have closing and opening of this gap. And by having a tee peg up there it just helps me consider how that happens as I push through when I get into my follow through I can see the tee peg points to my left hip. If I flick too much and it points across to my right hip we know there’s big problems.

So the tee peg points up to my left side and it stays pointing at my left side the whole way through. Any flicking, any hinging that’s a pretty classical bad habit in putting; and looking at the top hand of your grip is a great way to identify that problem.