Delo’s Divots: Show me a hands-and-wrists putter, and I will
show you a bad putter
— plain and simple, no exceptions.
Trying to putt with a flick of your wrists is very difficult for
both judging the distance and keeping the ball on line. You have
many small muscles and nerves in your hands, so it is very easy to
strike a nerve when putting.
Show me a hands-and-wrists putter, and I will show you a bad putter — plain and simple, no exceptions.
Trying to putt with a flick of your wrists is very difficult for both judging the distance and keeping the ball on line. You have many small muscles and nerves in your hands, so it is very easy to strike a nerve when putting.
One time, you putt the ball 10 feet. The next time, with a little jerk in your stroke, it travels 15 feet, and the next time, it only goes six feet. It is very difficult to be consistent with your distance when you are a wrist putter.
An arm-and-shoulder putter, on the other hand, is very consistent for the most part because the wrists are out of the shot. Use a simple pace and the length of the stroke back and through like the pendulum of a clock to judge distances.
Furthermore, since your wrists are causing the putter head to ascend at impact, you have a greater chance of putting the ball more accurately. So, turn your shoulders and arms into a pendulum of a clock — tick-tock, tick-tock — and you will be putting like clockwork in no time.
