GREAT advice for those who take their golf seriously, his advice is there to help ALL fellow golfers out there, so no need to be sarcastic remarks! But he is so right in what he say's, but the key in keeping the face of the putter square is to following though towards the hole, don't stop the head of the putter once you have struck the ball! Follow through square! Say you have a six foot putt, you take the putter head back square a foot then follow through two feet square towards the hole, you will be amazed in the results I promise you, the measurements I have given you is just an example, find your own feel and distance, the minute you let the putter head turn on your back swing, the harder it is to square the putter head back, try it for yourselves before making some silly remark!
I like that. I’ve recently started using this popping style and though it goes against the majority thought and style of putting it is effective. I would add to always focus passing your putter head over a point slightly ahead on your chosen line. Focusing on the putter head passing over a spot on line provides a better consistency than focusing on trying to get the ball over the same spot.
After playing golf for 40 years and seldom, if ever, improved my handicap i found the secret to great golf. I gave my clubs to a very talented 10 year old boy. He started playing scratch golf after 9 months of playing.
Thanks! This is the best ever putting lesson. I anchor my left leg. I aim then lay the putter slightly behind (not close) the ball, like Moe Norman. My putter leans like Phil Mickelson. I stroke my putter like Mr. Cohen's instruction. Very good result! Thanks again, Mr. Cohen!
For short putts, shorten the stroke to 1-3 inches backswing and 1-3 inches follow through keeping clubface square and exactly perpendicular to your stance. Address square, backswing square, contact square, follow through square. The short stroke makes it easier to keep square. So just pop in the 5 footer. If it misses and goes by 3 feet, pop that one in same method. This method is so reliable that even with an occasional miss, you know you have a high probability of making the next putt with same technique.
Now put the left hand slightly below the right in the grip, and you're golden. The right hand is responsible for keeping it square, and the left is power. It goes exactly on the line you pick.
Here’s my opinion on putting……. If you can take a practice stroke for speed, and then repeat that, then all you have to do is start the ball perfectly on your line. So, however you can do that is entirely up to you. People get too hung up on mechanics, and technique, when putting. I, personally get behind my ball, and read the putt. I point the line of the ball directly at my starting point. I then address the ball, until that line looks correct to my mind’s eye. This may be different for everyone. Some people may feel better slightly open, or eyes not directly over the ball, etc. I then take a few practice strokes imaging that I hit the ball for speed. I’ll then repeat that stroke. I then use the line on the ball to pick out a small specific spot about 3-5 inches in front of the ball. That’s it! Start your ball exactly on that line, and don’t stress about the outcome. You’ll be shocked at how many actually go in. It will change your game forever. Try it! P.S. This is similar to how Clair Hogle putts.
yes Jamie I like what you say, my approach is very similar, see it hit it! tip - don't second guess over the ball why? because once you have picked your line from around the green then address the ball your view changers stick with your original line.
@@Bob-nu3xe I tried something the other day that helped me shoot my all time personal best round. I opened my stance up, which helped the line on the ball look identical to the line I was seeing with my eyes. I tucked my right elbow in, and sorta felt like I was pushing the ball onto my start line. I know this sounds crazy, but the result was 23 total putts(that’s 13 one-putts). I shot 7 under(65). I don’t care how ridiculous it looks, this is now my new putting method. lol
Good video. The best putters in the past, for examples, Palmer, Player,Trevino, Watson et.al. gave the ball a hit or pop. Not sure if they were obsessed with a square club face, seemed more to do with accelerating thru the ball with a “bolder hit” so it held it’s line and they didn’t have to give much of the hole away.Nicklaus swore by taking a smaller backswing and a bigger follow thru to get the job done.
NO putters are built straight up and down like a croquet mallet, they ALL have a lie angle, greater or lesser. The ONLY way in which a putter (or any golf club) could be swung "straight back and straight through", or remain "square to the line" for ANY appreciable distance, would be: A. if the putter is built like a croquet mallet, or B: with extensive manipulation by the hands and forearms during the convoluted stroke that would result (Note, this seems to be what Cowen is advocating in this video, I think?). Golf putters ALL have a "lie angle" which has the putter's shaft slanting up from the putterhead toward the golfer. This makes it necessary for the golfer to swing the putter, like any other golf club, AROUND himself. It is a circular motion! There are no straight lines in a circle! When you truly swing the putter (vs. manipulating it with hands and forearms) around yourself it's face WILL remain square to the center of the circle (you) and also square to the arc that it is swinging on, time and time again. If you set up with the putter aligned with your center (ie beneath your sternum) and the ball just ahead of the putterhead, you can roll the ball online all day long.
I use for lack of a better term, the pendulum method. My arms and club hang straight down and I let the club swing freely rocking my torso for power. Longer puts have longer arcs. It's all swing--gravity keeps the putter in line. The club face is set and then there is no timing. I have to get the line right, the amount to swing back, and be completely relaxed put for this to work. No real timing.
Tried this method for the first time yesterday. 6 foot…..took 3 or 4 practice shots. Then proceeded to sink 26 of 30….and the first 19 in a row. Couldn’t believe it. Putt after putt went in the hole
I don't know anyone that swings a putter on an arc where the face opens and closes. It's straight back then straight through the ball and followed through towards the target. Every putt is a straight putt with the proper power.
What you don't understand is that by the rules of golf, the putter shaft must be offset to the blade. It is not allowed to be a croquet stroke. This means the stroke is on a tilted plane. In a proper stroke on a tilted plane the putter face stays stays square (unrotated) to the target, not to one's perception as it relates to the ground. And a putter face that stays UNROTATED and square relative to the TARGET at all times both arcs and opens and closes during the stroke. It that is not happening then the blade is being rotated relative to the target and will be totally inconsistent. Few people understand this except ALL of the touring pro's. Build yourself a wooden putter with a square shaft and ride that square shaft on a stair step edge (which is straight back and through). What you will observe is that what I say above is exactly true. You will see an arc and you will see the putter blade open and close even though it is riding on a straight edge and can't rotate. This is why ALL touring pros use some form of the Super Stroke grip. It helps to understand this. The people who own "The Putting Arc" actually sell a clip on device to help people understand this same thing. Very few people do. They just make UA-cam videos which advocate something which generally is not true. A short "pop" stroke will help people who are lousy putters in the first place. But it is just a band aid that fails when you get older.
@@tatchy1001 If you prefer to go by Pelz go ahead. A scratch golfer myself, the man only cost me 20 years of bad putting as he did millions of others. If you want to listen to people who do know how to putt, start with Crenshaw. Dave's theory is correct but holds no practical value. Using his techniques everything is important. Using Crenshaw's techniques almost nothing is important. That's because the club stays stable based on it's own momentum (inertial force). This is how literally all tour players putt today. A totally RELEASED putter. Even Tiger used basic Pelz ideas through about the year 2000 when he pitched them forever as he won at Bay Hill. He even stated just that in the post win TV interview.
@@tatchy1001 That's exactly true, and it illustrates why all tour players eventually went to his technique. With a putter blade that is in it's own inertia, nothing much else is important. It's totally released. Nothing else counts. Crenshaw made everything with a lousy stroke. With the Pelz method everything is important. It does not work when one gets older. I changed and I will never go back. That bastard cause me years of lousy short putting after I hit 50. Just look at how fast they all hit the ball today on short putts. They are all "Brad Faxon's" and just rip it into the hole with a released putter in it's own momentum. But it does not work until you truly understand the stroke as told on "the Putting Arc" website. You have to work out shaft rotation. That is why Tiger is fanatical about his right hand only drill. I can make 100 in row that way from 6 feet too. Once you get the rotation out, releasing the putter works.
@@mesillahills but not ‘all’ tour players went with his technique. There are many great putters that don’t. Zach Johnson has his hands behind the ball and Snedeaker uses this pop stroke to great effect.
Jack Nicklaus did the same thing. He was pretty good. Tiger does it. Watch his shoulders aren’t moving all over the place. Rickie does too. The difference is the tempos of each of these players to me. Sneds is such a quick tempo that you notice.
How about a demo coz that seems a weird way of putting. Lift the putter in a circular motion. Don’t understand and I’m a scratch golfer. If you mean a short backswing and a positive strike yes, but that seemed like you lift the putter in a circular motion
Try this method. It’s easier to keep the putter face square to the desired start line. Practice to get the feel for the amount of energy required on your greens and watch it work.
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Wonderful idea. Many thanks and I love it.
definitely the best method. no putter, no missed putts. it's an indisputable scientific fact.
GREAT advice for those who take their golf seriously, his advice is there to help ALL fellow golfers out there, so no need to be sarcastic remarks! But he is so right in what he say's, but the key in keeping the face of the putter square is to following though towards the hole, don't stop the head of the putter once you have struck the ball! Follow through square! Say you have a six foot putt, you take the putter head back square a foot then follow through two feet square towards the hole, you will be amazed in the results I promise you, the measurements I have given you is just an example, find your own feel and distance, the minute you let the putter head turn on your back swing, the harder it is to square the putter head back, try it for yourselves before making some silly remark!
HOW do you take it back square and move it forward square? Wrists? Shoulders? Magic?
I like that. I’ve recently started using this popping style and though it goes against the majority thought and style of putting it is effective. I would add to always focus passing your putter head over a point slightly ahead on your chosen line. Focusing on the putter head passing over a spot on line provides a better consistency than focusing on trying to get the ball over the same spot.
After playing golf for 40 years and seldom, if ever, improved my handicap i found the secret to great golf. I gave my clubs to a very talented 10 year old boy. He started playing scratch golf after 9 months of playing.
BULLSHIT.!!!
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'd have liked an actual demonstration of this with a putter and a ball.
My thoughts exactly
No shit. WTF over.
Pop pop pop
🤣
Just watch Snedeker.
Even your method produces an arc to the intended line.
Thanks! This is the best ever putting lesson.
I anchor my left leg.
I aim then lay the putter slightly behind (not close) the ball, like Moe Norman.
My putter leans like Phil Mickelson.
I stroke my putter like Mr. Cohen's instruction.
Very good result!
Thanks again, Mr. Cohen!
Great! Now I can top my putts too.
For short putts, shorten the stroke to 1-3 inches backswing and 1-3 inches follow through keeping clubface square and exactly perpendicular to your stance. Address square, backswing square, contact square, follow through square. The short stroke makes it easier to keep square. So just pop in the 5 footer. If it misses and goes by 3 feet, pop that one in same method. This method is so reliable that even with an occasional miss, you know you have a high probability of making the next putt with same technique.
Tried this and holed some long putts and was tapping in the rest, great method, a keeper technique.
Does this style mesh with a putter with more toe flow built into the face and weighting, which is a maybe more arced stroke?
Now put the left hand slightly below the right in the grip, and you're golden. The right hand is responsible for keeping it square, and the left is power. It goes exactly on the line you pick.
I always look at short putting as a mini battering ram hit squarely and precisely on the ball to pop towards the hole
Here’s my opinion on putting……. If you can take a practice stroke for speed, and then repeat that, then all you have to do is start the ball perfectly on your line. So, however you can do that is entirely up to you. People get too hung up on mechanics, and technique, when putting. I, personally get behind my ball, and read the putt. I point the line of the ball directly at my starting point. I then address the ball, until that line looks correct to my mind’s eye. This may be different for everyone. Some people may feel better slightly open, or eyes not directly over the ball, etc. I then take a few practice strokes imaging that I hit the ball for speed. I’ll then repeat that stroke. I then use the line on the ball to pick out a small specific spot about 3-5 inches in front of the ball. That’s it! Start your ball exactly on that line, and don’t stress about the outcome. You’ll be shocked at how many actually go in. It will change your game forever. Try it! P.S. This is similar to how Clair Hogle putts.
yes Jamie I like what you say, my approach is very similar, see it hit it! tip - don't second guess over the ball why? because once you have picked your line from around the green then address the ball your view changers stick with your original line.
@@Bob-nu3xe I tried something the other day that helped me shoot my all time personal best round. I opened my stance up, which helped the line on the ball look identical to the line I was seeing with my eyes. I tucked my right elbow in, and sorta felt like I was pushing the ball onto my start line. I know this sounds crazy, but the result was 23 total putts(that’s 13 one-putts). I shot 7 under(65). I don’t care how ridiculous it looks, this is now my new putting method. lol
Good video. The best putters in the past, for examples, Palmer, Player,Trevino, Watson et.al. gave the ball a hit or pop.
Not sure if they were obsessed with a square club face, seemed more to do with accelerating thru the ball with a “bolder hit” so it held it’s line and they didn’t have to give much of the hole away.Nicklaus swore by taking a smaller backswing and a bigger follow thru to get the job done.
NO putters are built straight up and down like a croquet mallet, they ALL have a lie angle, greater or lesser. The ONLY way in which a putter (or any golf club) could be swung "straight back and straight through", or remain "square to the line" for ANY appreciable distance, would be: A. if the putter is built like a croquet mallet, or B: with extensive manipulation by the hands and forearms during the convoluted stroke that would result (Note, this seems to be what Cowen is advocating in this video, I think?). Golf putters ALL have a "lie angle" which has the putter's shaft slanting up from the putterhead toward the golfer. This makes it necessary for the golfer to swing the putter, like any other golf club, AROUND himself. It is a circular motion! There are no straight lines in a circle! When you truly swing the putter (vs. manipulating it with hands and forearms) around yourself it's face WILL remain square to the center of the circle (you) and also square to the arc that it is swinging on, time and time again. If you set up with the putter aligned with your center (ie beneath your sternum) and the ball just ahead of the putterhead, you can roll the ball online all day long.
So so true. Jack Nicklaus set up open and kept face square the whole time.
I use for lack of a better term, the pendulum method. My arms and club hang straight down and I let the club swing freely rocking my torso for power. Longer puts have longer arcs. It's all swing--gravity keeps the putter in line. The club face is set and then there is no timing. I have to get the line right, the amount to swing back, and be completely relaxed put for this to work. No real timing.
Wow, tell us more
I think he's pretty much summed it up already
Tried this method for the first time yesterday. 6 foot…..took 3 or 4 practice shots. Then proceeded to sink 26 of 30….and the first 19 in a row. Couldn’t believe it. Putt after putt went in the hole
Post a video. This one is useless.
Watching this was like having a driving lesson, minus the car.
Never herd of this… I like it ..😅
A demonstration is necessary. No idea what this looks like without a club and the constant ball position he talks about.
pete cowen has a tendency to talk a lot almost to the point of fluff
Here’s an idea. Go try it for yourself?
Unfortunately it does not happen the way he explains, its more of a breaking the wrists going back and popping the ball on the through stroke.
@JAHOCKEY let me explain how to land an airplane to you, then you go try it yourself..😂
Brant doesn’t describe his stoke that way, he says he hinges his wrist with almost no follow thru.
I don't know anyone that swings a putter on an arc where the face opens and closes. It's straight back then straight through the ball and followed through towards the target. Every putt is a straight putt with the proper power.
What you don't understand is that by the rules of golf, the putter shaft must be offset to the blade. It is not allowed to be a croquet stroke. This means the stroke is on a tilted plane. In a proper stroke on a tilted plane the putter face stays stays square (unrotated) to the target, not to one's perception as it relates to the ground. And a putter face that stays UNROTATED and square relative to the TARGET at all times both arcs and opens and closes during the stroke. It that is not happening then the blade is being rotated relative to the target and will be totally inconsistent. Few people understand this except ALL of the touring pro's. Build yourself a wooden putter with a square shaft and ride that square shaft on a stair step edge (which is straight back and through). What you will observe is that what I say above is exactly true. You will see an arc and you will see the putter blade open and close even though it is riding on a straight edge and can't rotate. This is why ALL touring pros use some form of the Super Stroke grip. It helps to understand this. The people who own "The Putting Arc" actually sell a clip on device to help people understand this same thing. Very few people do. They just make UA-cam videos which advocate something which generally is not true. A short "pop" stroke will help people who are lousy putters in the first place. But it is just a band aid that fails when you get older.
Read Dave Pelz putting Bible then come back to us 😂
@@tatchy1001 If you prefer to go by Pelz go ahead. A scratch golfer myself, the man only cost me 20 years of bad putting as he did millions of others. If you want to listen to people who do know how to putt, start with Crenshaw. Dave's theory is correct but holds no practical value. Using his techniques everything is important. Using Crenshaw's techniques almost nothing is important. That's because the club stays stable based on it's own momentum (inertial force). This is how literally all tour players putt today. A totally RELEASED putter. Even Tiger used basic Pelz ideas through about the year 2000 when he pitched them forever as he won at Bay Hill. He even stated just that in the post win TV interview.
@@mesillahills Ben Crenshaw was an amazing putter but his technique was actually poor. 🤦♂️
@@tatchy1001 That's exactly true, and it illustrates why all tour players eventually went to his technique. With a putter blade that is in it's own inertia, nothing much else is important. It's totally released. Nothing else counts. Crenshaw made everything with a lousy stroke. With the Pelz method everything is important. It does not work when one gets older. I changed and I will never go back. That bastard cause me years of lousy short putting after I hit 50. Just look at how fast they all hit the ball today on short putts. They are all "Brad Faxon's" and just rip it into the hole with a released putter in it's own momentum. But it does not work until you truly understand the stroke as told on "the Putting Arc" website. You have to work out shaft rotation. That is why Tiger is fanatical about his right hand only drill. I can make 100 in row that way from 6 feet too. Once you get the rotation out, releasing the putter works.
@@mesillahills but not ‘all’ tour players went with his technique. There are many great putters that don’t. Zach Johnson has his hands behind the ball and Snedeaker uses this pop stroke to great effect.
Makes as much sense as ‘spinning the arms’.
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Using a face balanced putter helps with this method
look up Brandt Snedeker 4 putt at the BMW championship.
Jack Nicklaus did the same thing. He was pretty good. Tiger does it. Watch his shoulders aren’t moving all over the place. Rickie does too. The difference is the tempos of each of these players to me. Sneds is such a quick tempo that you notice.
Seve putted like that...Brilliant
Good video, but the music isn't needed. It's annoying and makes it harder to hear him.
I tried this method and found I couldn't hit the ball without a putter.
How about a demo coz that seems a weird way of putting. Lift the putter in a circular motion. Don’t understand and I’m a scratch golfer. If you mean a short backswing and a positive strike yes, but that seemed like you lift the putter in a circular motion
Ok that's different from focus on dipping lead shoulder to putt
Wow - a video about putting that did not include any putting. That'll be a first.
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Well explained, thanks.
Pete, you got any other colors than black in your wardrobe?
. . . you need consistent impact and ball position --- how about don't move your head?
Why not demonstrate by actually putting with a putter? That reverse roll is confusing.
snedeker himself says 90% of his putting practice was 5 to 6 feet and under
Sounds like a jet taking off
Messillahills understands.
Better tell Rory !.
Take two weeks off, then quit.
That’s 2m26s of my life I will never get back.
I use the hit and hope method.
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Poor Audio ...too much wind ..
Please next time demonstrate more and talk least cause don't know what the hell you r talking about
U must have a learning disability..sad:(
Me neither
All of this is assuming you have a consistent grip pressure....out of 10 grip it 2
and keep it there!
What?
Should have showed a couple putts
I take it he can’t do it then poor video
I never understand Pete Cowan
uhh what?
Said absolutely nothing. Waste of time!
Said quite a bit..you must be hard of hearing or on dope😋
Too much talk, not enough demonstration. I haven't learned a thing
utter bollocks, all the best putters putt open to closed with a toe down putter
Try this method. It’s easier to keep the putter face square to the desired start line. Practice to get the feel for the amount of energy required on your greens and watch it work.
Would have been nice to see him putt, instead of describing it
Absolute mind fuck....and not in a good way.
Wow too much talk and no demonstration? What a disaster!!!!
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣🤣🏌️♂️what???
What a useless video. All talk, no demo
Crap. Ugh.
This guy I bet doesn’t have a golf equipment since all the videos are just plain talking 🥸