Putting Woes

[leftylucas]

Yes, trust your instincts Mike

[mpare]

Nice photo. As you know I used to putt anything inside 10 feet with my eyes closed. It worked very well, though it drove the other players crazy.

Yes, trust your instincts Mike

[leftylucas]

Mike, you also need to make the sound like Chevy did in Caddyshack, na-na-na-na-na. Then you will hear the sound of the ball falling into the cup.

[bobblehead]

I came across this topic on another site....your eye dominance and the amount of offset your putter should have...

https://goodeputter.com/DEO_2.html

[leftylucas]

That is a great little gadget, do you know if it makes any difference if your dominant eye is closer to the target, i.e. I am left handed and my dominant eye is my right eye which makes it closer to the hole when looking down the line.

[bobblehead]

I think the eye dominance and amount of offset let's you get the ball closer to the dominant eye...i think

Right handed -left eye dominance =less offset
Right handed -right eye dominance=more offset
Left handed -left eye dominance=more offset
Left handed -right eye dominance =less offset

I'm right handed and right eye dominant....I'm going to try a full offset putter to start the season.

[Big Johnny69]

I have a new putter with which I have been practicing my old, freer stroke. Three putting will not be an issue this summer. Wax on. Wax off.

I can already hear the coins dropping into the little bag hanging off your golf bag!!!

[XTOUR]

I also struggle with putting. The more i try and think about what I am doing, the worse my putting usually gets and I end up trying too hard and choking the grip or just giving up and not trying at all. It has been pretty bad really. So, I just bought a used Momentus Inside Down The Line short track to try and help me with the perennial putting woes.

So far so good. I guess I am a tactile learner, I need to feel it and that is what this IDTL seems to give me. This little track actually felt quite natural to use straight away, which is unusual for any training aid I think. This method/feel is what I think I have been trying to do the whole time without actually knowing it. All I really want to do is groove a natural stroke so that i dont have to think about it. Just pick a line and trust that I can get it close or better yet hole it and that is all any of us are trying to do. Eliminate the 3 putts and we are scoring pretty darned well.

I dont really ever buy into the hype about training aids but this one seems to really work and honestly it doesnt seem to make any diffrence what style of putter you use. Lets face it, I have a few putters, and I've tried pretty much all of them with this and they all produce the same result. A dead straight roll with very little hop off the face. Well nearly all, the centre shafted face balanced need to be more SBST, but even they still fall a little to the inside at the very end of the backswing so me and the ball have to be moved forward in relation to the track if you know what I mean. I'm not saying it's for everyone but so far it seems to be working well in the house....of course that may well change out in the real world on the short grass.

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Thought about buying a IDTL but thought I could mimick the swing naturally. I've only practiced the last couple days but I notice a difference from the SBST approach. How has your putting been this year on the greens using this method?

[Samba-Jane]

tried the mallet putter and my putting got worst... i guess it's just me and not my clubs