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…
Biv Wadden
Biv Wadden
Biv Wadden is a Class A Teaching Professional with the PGA of America, a Certified Level 3 SAM Putt Lab Instructor, and a Level 9 Certified Clubfitter with the Association of GolfClub Fitting Professionals (AGCP). He provides golf instruction and custom clubfitting to his students in the western and northern suburbs of Chicago.
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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.
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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
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Moving away from address, the initial angle in the left wrist is “carried” intact for approximately the first 10-20 inches of the takeaway.
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Watch this discus throw champion unwind his body prior to the release of the discuss.…
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It’s important to begin with theright initial basic concept for the takeaway. The first goal…
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A neutral wrist position is present when the left wrist lines up joint neutral to the forearm without any…
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Putting
Your Putting Stroke: Straight-Back Straight-Through or on an Arc?
by Biv Waddenby Biv WaddenThere’s an age-old controversy that many golfer’s have yet to resolve. Should the putter head…
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First of all, how well should you putt? The graph above shows probabilities of holing…
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A neutral un-rotated shoulder is present when the forearm is parallel to the centerline of the body The…
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