Flip The Triangle
Golf Digest South Africa|November 2018

It’s the secret to great putting

Stan Utley
Flip The Triangle

If you asked a lot of golfers how to teach the putting stroke, they might say that when holding the club, the arms and shoulders create a triangle shape that points down at the ball. The goal is keeping that triangle shape intact during the stroke. I get the visual, but I think it’s upside down. The best putters make a stroke where the putter head creates the triangle’s base and the grip end is the point. Can you picture that? This principle is why anchoring a putter against your chest is now against the rules. It makes putting way easier. Fortunately, you can use my triangle visual without anchoring. It will make your stroke so good, it will seem like cheating. But it isn’t.

THINK HANDS, NOT ARMS

This story is from the November 2018 edition of Golf Digest South Africa.

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