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Styler
THE PUTTER
By Randy O. Williams
hey say putting is an art
form. Well if that is the
case, the canvas is fi lled
with odd angles and tricky
undulations so how do you
choose the right brush for
that fast 8-foot downhiller
with a double break or the 60-footer you have
to run across the entire green just to get it close
for the chance to save par?
And with so many options, one could
suffer a stroke trying to reduce your strokes!
I mean come on - Toe Balanced Putters, Blade
Putters, Peripheral Weighted Putters, Mallet
Putters, Metal Faced Putters, Insert Faced
Putters, Groove Faced Putters. Center-shafted
putters… the list is almost endless, what to do?
“It’s really important not to fall in love
with the shape, style, or graphics of a specifi c
putter without understanding what kind of
putting stroke you have,” said Scott White,
President/CEO, Ben Hogan Golf Equipment
Company. “If you don’t match a putter to your
specifi c putting style, you aren’t going to putt
well. It’s as simple as that.”
Thus one of the fi rst tips is to get a
customized fi t to ensure that the loft and lie
angle match your stroke.
“If they have somewhere to go to get
fi t, they should really start there,” concurred
Luke Williams, Sr. Global Director – Odyssey
Putters by Callaway. “Short of that, you should
look for a putter that you are able to align well
and consistently. Golfers in general, even Tour
players, struggle with alignment and if you are
not aligned with where you want to start your
putt, everything else breaks down you have
to make compensations, or a bad stroke, to
make putts. It’s also very important to have a
putter with a rotational value that matches your
stroke.”
With that in mind, the basic considerations
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48 G o l f P l u s
NOVEMBER
2019