Short Par 4 The Magazine Issue #2 October 2020 | Page 49

YOUR PUTTER LENGTH COULD BE HURTING YOU .

If you ' re not aware , and we hope you are but if you weren ' t , you can get putters in different lengths . From 30 -40 inch putters , we see a considerable variation of putter lengths on all tours . Putter Length can have a massive effect on how you address the golf ball and how you putt , so it ' s crucial to understand that if you ' re putting with a length that is wrong for you , it could be inhibiting your ability to set up correctly to the ball causing you all sorts of problems .

You shouldn ' t be addressing the ball the same way you do say you ' re 7 iron . We want to stand quite differently . Think about what we want from , an iron , or even a driver . We have this nice sort of neutral spine , and we swing around the body . Well , with the putting stroke , it ' s a lot different , we ' re looking to create a fairly consistent straighter back and through stroke . It ' s not entirely straight , but certainly , a straighter move than we would see with an iron .

PUTTER LENGTH EFFECTS THE WAY YOU STAND TO THE GOLF BALL AND THEREFORE THE PUTT