This post discusses the prototypical setup/address position that I see used by most tour players nowadays. The setup position that good putters use is quite often counter-intuitive to the beginning or intermediate golfer. There are easy mistakes to make…

To answer that question I went to the PGA Tour’s website to look up the Top 20 players at the end of each season ranked by Strokes-Gained-Putting. Strokes-gained statistics for putting go back to 2004.

You can see above that instead of forming two 90 degree angles between the shaft and forearm, we are forming one single 180 degree angle. And to organize our forearms this way requires a different grip than the traditional full swing overlap or interlock grip