Golf Stance: Weight Distribution
Some people propound the weight-back theory in putting, as well as in hitting shots, on the basis that you have a firmer foundation and 44 the right hand is too dominant. Left hand, left hand, the key to good putting. On the backstroke, feel that the left hand is pushing the club away from the ball, then just swing that left hand back to the ball. Let the right hand add the power while the left guides the club through.
Putting Strategy
Beyond these mechanics of putting there is the element of strategy, the approach to putting. I am what is called a distance putter. Naturally, I want to make every putt I can, but I believe in what Bobby Jones once said, that when you hit a putt past the hole you know you haven’t made it. I want to stop the ball-on putts from fifteen feet or more-very close to the edges of the cup so the next one is a relative cinch. Personally, I’ve missed too many short putts coming back to the hole, and so I am never entirely dissatisfied if I leave a putt a few inches short. Coming back from two or three feet past the cup seems to set up a psychological block for almost all golfers.
On breaking putts, I do not believe in adjusting the stance or ball position to accommodate the break. There are people who say, if the putt goes right to left, play the ball back more in the stance, or vice versa for left-to-right putts, so you will be sure to get the ball high enough. That might work a time or two, but generally, the change in ball position in relation to your feet will invariably alter your stroke pattern and you won’t hit the ball with accustomed speed or club head acceleration.
Also, I don’t believe in spot-putting on breaking putts. That is, picking out a dark spot or something like that somewhere along the line of putt where you think the ball will begin to break. I want to have the total image of the putt’s roll in my mind when I get over the ball. I suppose that’s the result of all that moonlighting on the putting clock back at the San Diego Country Club. don’t have to follow this rule, such as when you are just off the green and the fringe is closely clipped, or when the pin is so close to the side of the green from which you are coming that you don’t have enough green to work with and must land the ball in the fringe.
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