Master Pga Professional, Pete Cowen, teaches you a putting technique that Brandt Snedeker has mastered called the Pop Putting Method.
With this help and guidance, you could transform your game at crucial moments.
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What you don't understand is that by the rules of golf, the putter shaft must be offset to the blade. It is not allowed to be a croquet stroke. This means the stroke is on a tilted plane. In a proper stroke on a tilted plane the putter face stays stays square (unrotated) to the target, not to one's perception as it relates to the ground. And a putter face that stays UNROTATED and square relative to the TARGET at all times both arcs and opens and closes during the stroke. It that is not happening then the blade is being rotated relative to the target and will be totally inconsistent. Few people understand this except ALL of the touring pro's. Build yourself a wooden putter with a square shaft and ride that square shaft on a stair step edge (which is straight back and through). What you will observe is that what I say above is exactly true. You will see an arc and you will see the putter blade open and close even though it is riding on a straight edge and can't rotate. This is why ALL touring pros use some form of the Super Stroke grip. It helps to understand this. The people who own "The Putting Arc" actually sell a clip on device to help people understand this same thing. Very few people do. They just make YouTube videos which advocate something which generally is not true. A short "pop" stroke will help people who are lousy putters in the first place. But it is just a band aid that fails when you get older.
NO putters are built straight up and down like a croquet mallet, they ALL have a lie angle, greater or lesser. The ONLY way in which a putter (or any golf club) could be swung "straight back and straight through", or remain "square to the line" for ANY appreciable distance, would be: A. if the putter is built like a croquet mallet, or B: with extensive manipulation by the hands and forearms during the convoluted stroke that would result (Note, this seems to be what Cowen is advocating in this video, I think?). Golf putters ALL have a "lie angle" which has the putter's shaft slanting up from the putterhead toward the golfer. This makes it necessary for the golfer to swing the putter, like any other golf club, AROUND himself. It is a circular motion! There are no straight lines in a circle! When you truly swing the putter (vs. manipulating it with hands and forearms) around yourself it's face WILL remain square to the center of the circle (you) and also square to the arc that it is swinging on, time and time again. If you set up with the putter aligned with your center (ie beneath your sternum) and the ball just ahead of the putterhead, you can roll the ball online all day long.
snedeker himself says 90% of his putting practice was 5 to 6 feet and under
Brant doesn’t describe his stoke that way, he says he hinges his wrist with almost no follow thru.
Tried this method for the first time yesterday. 6 foot…..took 3 or 4 practice shots. Then proceeded to sink 26 of 30….and the first 19 in a row. Couldn’t believe it. Putt after putt went in the hole
Even your method produces an arc to the intended line.
Messillahills understands.
How about a demo coz that seems a weird way of putting. Lift the putter in a circular motion. Don’t understand and I’m a scratch golfer. If you mean a short backswing and a positive strike yes, but that seemed like you lift the putter in a circular motion
Better tell Rory !.
Incredible drill to master the downswing in golf: https://youtu.be/zB1velb0EqU
Using a face balanced putter helps with this method
Crap. Ugh.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'd have liked an actual demonstration of this with a putter and a ball.
Rarely miss? Yeah, like my ex wife who rarely missed a chance to spend all our money.
Seve putted like that…Brilliant
What a stupid video.!!!
Great! Now I can top my putts too.
Here’s my opinion on putting……. If you can take a practice stroke for speed, and then repeat that, then all you have to do is start the ball perfectly on your line. So, however you can do that is entirely up to you. People get too hung up on mechanics, and technique, when putting. I, personally get behind my ball, and read the putt. I point the line of the ball directly at my starting point. I then address the ball, until that line looks correct to my mind’s eye. This may be different for everyone. Some people may feel better slightly open, or eyes not directly over the ball, etc. I then take a few practice strokes imaging that I hit the ball for speed. I’ll then repeat that stroke. I then use the line on the ball to pick out a small specific spot about 3-5 inches in front of the ball. That’s it! Start your ball exactly on that line, and don’t stress about the outcome. You’ll be shocked at how many actually go in. It will change your game forever. Try it! P.S. This is similar to how Clair Hogle putts.
What a useless video. All talk, no demo
I like that. I’ve recently started using this popping style and though it goes against the majority thought and style of putting it is effective. I would add to always focus passing your putter head over a point slightly ahead on your chosen line. Focusing on the putter head passing over a spot on line provides a better consistency than focusing on trying to get the ball over the same spot.
Why not demonstrate by actually putting with a putter? That reverse roll is confusing.
That’s 2m26s of my life I will never get back.
Now put the left hand slightly below the right in the grip, and you're golden. The right hand is responsible for keeping it square, and the left is power. It goes exactly on the line you pick.
Watching this was like having a driving lesson, minus the car.
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This guy I bet doesn’t have a golf equipment since all the videos are just plain talking 🥸
Sounds like a jet taking off
I always look at short putting as a mini battering ram hit squarely and precisely on the ball to pop towards the hole
Ok that's different from focus on dipping lead shoulder to putt
I use the hit and hope method.
Does this style mesh with a putter with more toe flow built into the face and weighting, which is a maybe more arced stroke?
Poor Audio …too much wind ..
Would have been nice to see him putt, instead of describing it
uhh what?
Makes as much sense as ‘spinning the arms’.