A golf glove. That’s all you need to master the devilish art of holing putts.
Take your glove and put it in your right or back arm pit. Hold it there with gentle pressure from your arm. This should look familiar as many PGA Tour players use a similar technique to work on the arms staying connected to the body in the downswing. For putting we have a small range of motion that is best controlled by connection with your shoulders and your back arm.
Now gasp the putter so that right hand and putter handle are in line with your sternum. Your right hand should be bent to a 90 degree angle to the ground.So that if there was a wall in front of your hand you could you could hit it flatly. To practice this new pattern you can set up to a door or some other place that allows you a flat surface you can get a feel for square contact in the putting swing.
Once you are comfortable with the basic motion, put your left or front hand on the grip to gently support the putting motion. Your right hand is the control position Think of your hands as sharing 100 percent of the grip pressure. The right hand should have 70 – 80 percent of the hand pressure. With the rest in your left hand.
The ball position is determined by the setup of your triangle. This should be roughly the center of your stance. The zero position is where club hangs in a square position flat to the ground. We are not trying to hit on the down or up swing. We are only letting the club face find the ball at zero with momentum needed to drop the putt.
To test this, use some tees to make a gate just wide enough for your putter head to move through. Now place the ball at the edge of the back of the gate. Now setup behind this gate. Start by making small swings back and through, removing the ball if necessary to get the motion right.
The secret to putting is consistent square contact on your intended line. I didn’t mention speed because without the ability to hit your intended line, speed is irrelevant. You can have the best speed control in the world, but you will never hit anything outside of 3 feet without hitting your line.