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In the video above, Nick Drane, PGA Professional and Master Fitting Specialist at the Titleist Performance Centre, Woburn, explains the importance of the putting backswing vs follow through.
If you’re struggling to get the ball started on the correct line, or if you find that your distance control is lacking consistency, be sure to give this video a watch.
You will often hear people talk about the importance of accelerating the putter through impact. We certainly don’t want to be decelerating, but if you watch the best putters in the world, they keep the putter head at a constant speed. Understanding this will help you discover the flow that is often behind a great putting stroke.
Thinking too much accelerating the head can lead to a few problems, the first of which concerns distance control. Put simply, it makes it hard to be consistent from range.
So, what you tend to see is this short backswing, and then a long, jerky follow through. As well as making it hard to get the distance right, it also makes it difficult to maintain a square clubface towards your intended target line – so you can clearly see from the picture below that I’m going to pull it.
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(Image credit: Tom Miles)
Key Putting Fundamentals
A couple of basics at set-up can help you to understand the importance of putting backswing vs follow through. I take the putter in the palms of my hands and adopt a nice, wide base. What you’re trying to remove is any unnecessary wrist movement that will give acceleration to that putter head. A good address position will help you find more control of the putter with you needing to grip it any tighter.
Use Your Feet
You can use your feet as a reference for the length of stroke. So, if you watch the backswing and follow through in the video, you’ll see how they are very similar in length. The images above and below show the same…
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