Mixing with the best players in the world, you do get to see a lot of different putting strokes. And as a result, you build in your mind a blueprint of what you believe to be the most effective and consistent method. And the idea of the putter working back and through the ball on pretty much a straight line is my ideal – what I suppose you might describe as a ‘square-to-square’ type of stroke. In other words, I work on a set-up and a stroke that enables me to keep the putter-head moving back and forth along the starting line that I have identified to the hole, the face always square to the initial line of the putt. We are lucky on tour in that there are a number of experts on hand to look at your stroke and offer advice. I have worked with the ‘Putting Doctor’ Harold Swash on several ocassions, but I have always considered myself to be a good intuitive putter, and the basis of my method is all my own. Let me show you how I keep myself sharp. . . . More > |