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A lot of putters don’t have a marking to indicate the sweet spot and a lot of putters that have a sweet spot marked off by a bit. The first thing to do when checking a putter is to use a key or a golf tee and strike the face repeatedly.
How to do it:
Hold the putter between two fingers so that it may pivot, or swing, freely. When you strike the free hanging putter with a tee or key the putter face will move backward and or rotate. The point when you hit the putter and it swings straight back without the face rotating is your putters “sweet spot”. You can mark the top of the putter to indicate the new sweet spot or simply take note of it’s relationship to the rest of the putter. Be sure to set up using the new-found true sweet spot of the putter.
Playlists: Putting
Tags: Putt, Beginner
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Now, before we can actually track how well you're hitting the ball in the sweet spot or
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before we can improve how well you're hitting the ball in the sweet spot, we have to
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identify where your putters sweet spot is. And do not assume that just because the
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manufacturer puts a line like my Scotty Cameron has right there, that that is the
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true sweet spot of this putter. Because a lot of manufacturing variations can dictate
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or control a little bit where that will be. So you're going to take a golf tee or a
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key or just some object that you can basically strike the club face. So you see if
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I hit way out on the toe, you can see that there is a lot of rotation of this putter.
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Right, I'll do it this way. So you can see how much rotation we have. Same thing if I
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hit it on the heel, you can see how much rotation. Now as I get closer and closer to
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the putters sweet spot by moving around until I can kind of zoom in, you can also go
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a little bit by the noise. The purest sound will be the sweet spot. So I'm
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saying it's pretty close to there. And now if you were to look, all right Scotty
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Cameron's a good putter. And this is I'd say within a 16th of an inch, maybe a
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16th of an inch towards the heel would be the true putter sweet spot compared to
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the line. So that's important for me to know, especially I've had putters where it
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could be off by as much as a quarter of an inch and that can be dramatic. So double
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check your putters sweet spot. And once you know where it is, then we can start
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training how to strike around it consistently. So just remember from mine, it's about
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16th of an inch towards the heel compared to where the line is. If you wanted to, you
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could take a sharpie and actually draw another line. But that I don't like the way that
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looks personally for my putter. So if it didn't have a line, I would draw one. But
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because it already has one, I'm just going to make a little mental note. Okay? So
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identify your putters sweet spot and then let's go on to how to train it.
