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To help you improve your putting skills, we've asked some of the users of Huxley Putting Greens to offer some advice as to how you can improve your putting skills and lower your handicap.
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Dr Paul Hurrion: Getting the Posture Right:
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1. Bending gently from the hips, and with your feet parallel to the line of the putt, grip the putter with your right hand, the left hand on your thigh. Make sure the putter is sitting flat on the surface of the green.
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2. In order to create a natural fulcrum for your stroke, angle your upper spine so that vertebra C7 (the nobbly one!) is flat. That creates your ‘pivot point’.
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3. With your left arm comforably in place, you want the shaft of the putter to be an extension of the left forearm– the angle matches up perfectly.
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Dr Paul Hurrion: How to establish the perfect ball position.
One of the secrets to good putting is that you ‘collect’ the ball – i.e. it gets in theway of the putter head as you swing it back and forth with rhythm. To establish the correct ball position, hold your right hand flat on chest at your sternum, fingers pointing out. A vertical line from here should go through the top of the leading edge of your putter. The ball sits an inch forward of that point.
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| Read the complete artical on Putting Tips (reproduced with permission by Dr Paul Hurrion). |