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timastyle

By timastyle
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Drifterland Established Member

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Measure a putter length away from the hole and put a mark down. If you knock in four in a row move the mark back one putter length.

This putting drill is fun and builds confidence.

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Everything, start strait, then thos sidehillers none of us like very much.

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Ok, I will work on that. My question to everyone and this should probably go in the golf equipment part of this forum, but how does getting fitted for a putter work into this? There are so many different types of putters, mallet, blade, semi-mallet, toe weighted, heel weighted, heel topped, face balanced.

I know putters are mostly personal, but they gotta work. My putter is toe weighted and the sweet spot is more towards the heel (that's what was said in a previous post). I am having difficulty finding the sweet spot. I've purposefully hit all over the face and can't get any consistent feel of where the sweet spot is.

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Does your putters not have an alignment line or dot to indicate where the sweet spot is?

What you need to do is try and keep the face straight back and through. No opening or closing at all. That just makes it so unpredictable for a person at your handicap level (no offense). Just try and keep it as straight as you can back and through the putt.

Opening and closing relative to the target perhaps, but with a SBST swing, you have to close and open the clubface through the shot. If you don't do anything with the wrists and swing back and forth, the clubhead will be open on the way back and closed when it gets past the ball. With a SBST swing, you have to manipulate the clubhead with the hands, closing the clubface so it is straight on the way back, and holding it open so it does not close on the way through.

Learning to swing at an arc is simply a matter of practice, should not be harder for a high handicapper than anyone else.

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Saint Well Established Member

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You could try the two rubber band trick. You put two rubber bands on each side of the sweet spot. It'll make you hit it there every time. Also, lean the shaft forward a little, right before you make your putt, and keep it that way. It helps you get the ball rolling better.

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You could try the two rubber band trick. You put two rubber bands on each side of the sweet spot. It'll make you hit it there every time. Also, lean the shaft forward a little, right before you make your putt, and keep it that way. It helps you get the ball rolling better.

I think this is a great idea, but I can't find the damn sweet spot (at least consistently)...


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use a tee, and tap it on the face, and it will tell you where the sweet spot is.

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just enough room to hit the ball. So if you dont hit it in the sweet spot, its goes way left or right from the bands

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Anything work for you?

Thanks for the inquiry...I was hesitant to post again. I tried tapping on the face of the putter but got no sense of where the sweet spot is. I put the two rubber bands on and putted that way and even adjusted to try and find the sweet spot and still not luck. I even did a google search with no result.

I did, however, change my grip a little (trying out different ones) and I got one where I feel I have better control over the putter and with each stroke, I can feel that I'm hitting close to the sweet spot, but not exactly. I have had putts where it feels like butter when I hit the ball and I'm close to it, but haven't been able to nail down where the location is.

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I picked up what you were talking about. My problem is actually finding the sweet spot. Like I said, I've tried hitting the face of the putter in all areas and haven't been able to lock down where it is.

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i tried it on my cousins blade putter, and couldn't find it either. I would just assume that it's at the alignment mark.

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