Putting is highly affected by cofidence so you need to feel comfortable with your flat stick. Have you tried a mallet putter? Might not be your thing although it wouldn’t hurt to try one out. They are becomming more popular on the tours and it might get you that extra bit of confidence.

Keep up the good work!

/Elias

It would be so easy to do since you are already there and with your photography skills would be a really easy way to make some extra money.

I would be a customer for sure, your pictures are so great.

JOE

Watson says to keep the trailing arm and hand soft. It is obvious that the stronger trailing arm and hand can have a lot of power to contribute to the shot. It is like a baseball pitcher, who needs to balance the amount of throwing power to keep ball speed high enough while at the same time to keep wild pitches from happening. Nelson increased the control of trailing hand power by selecting a target down range to “throw” the clubhead to. Nicklaus, not consciously using the hands, rather select a target just in front of the tee to swing the clubhead to. These allow the trailing arm and hand to provide power during the release, but under control with target focusing whether consciously or unconsciously drawing power from the trailing arm and hand.

Nicklaus is famous for the “flying” right elbow during the backswing, which was considered unorthodox, but in a recent article, Miller considered that an advantage, as it allowed a more upright backswing, and downswing (of the left arm.) Nicklaus tilt the head to the rear somewhat during setup, which tend to naturally force the right elbow (the trailing elbow) to return to the right side of the body during the first part of the downswing. With the head tilt back, and keeping the shoulders from opening too early, it is probably an automated and unconscious process of returning the right elbow to the side of the body during the first part of the downswing. The “Little Red Book” advocated conscious practicing of the returning of the trailing elbow tight to the right side of the body using slow motion practicing of the initial part of the down swing; although, few others discussed this aspect to such extend. Woods appears to often let the elbow(s) swing fairly far away from the body during the downswing.

Although not talked about in literature, there is such a thing as the “swing-paths of the left arm, and the left hand” (leading arm and hand) during the swing. Most modern pros have relatively upright left arm and hand (leading arm and hand) swing paths. They setup with the left arm fairly vertical. The left arm swing back fairly vertically. The left arm swings a little more flat in the downswing across the lower body.

From a physics point of view according to the Law of the Conservation of Angular Momentum, the left arm and left hand (leading arm and hand) swinging closer across the body during the downswing allows the body to automatically speed up more without using any more energy than if the left arm and the left hand downswing path is further away from the body. This is a fact of nature, that is best illustrated by figure skaters pulling their arms in to speed up their spins to amazing rates, and pushing their arms out to rapidly slow down their spins. Since golfers do a partial turn during the down swing rather than many spin rotations, it is hard to feel this effect of spin speed up, other than the possible feeling that the downswing is over in a shorter time than usual. With the downswing turn speeded up automatically, the downswing will be completed in a much shorter time. This can give a feeling of effortlessness in the downswing, as the downswing is over before the player has a chance to exert extra swinging and hitting effort during the downswing.

Nicklaus with the flying elbow backswing that extend the arms away from the body during the backswing is sort of like the figure skater extending the arms out to start the spin. During the downswing, he first has the right arm fold back to the body, and than at the final release he pulls the left arm as well close to the body just before impact. The laws of physics dictate the resulting effect of more automated speed.