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I was re-reading Break 100 Now: From Hacker to Golfer in Just 90 Days (in addition to some other books that I have in my collection with regards to putting) and one of the things that they covered choosing the way to stroke a putt based upon which hand is dominant. Basically you putt about 10 strokes using a one handed stroke and the hand that has more control is your dominant one.

For a right hand dominant person, Adams and Tomasi recommended a center shafted putter with a pendulum swing. For a left handed dominant person, they should use a heel shafted putter with more of an arc type of swing.

How did you choose your method of putting?
Are you right or left hand dominant?
What type of stroke do you use?
What type of putter do you use?

I'm right handed although this was the result of a switch from being a southpaw when I was 7 or 8. Started playing right handed around that age and I'm right eyed and footed, so it seems the correct choice.

I have always been a wrist putter, starting to play in the late 1940's when the smooth fast greens of today didn't exist (most stemped about 5 or so). For the past 30 years I've used a Ping putter with a balanced blade. Putting one handed my distance is better with the right hand, but direction is better with my left. I use a reverse overlap putting grip from 12 feet out (left index finger overlaps right little) which gets all of my right hand on the club and go left hand low for the closer tries. And I tend to be a streaky putter. Some days are golden and on other I want to bite the head off my putter.

I have played using my right arm only on more than a few periods in my life as I have a tendency to injure my left arm from time to time. And several times a year I dust off an old set of clubs and play my home course left handed, but I'm nowhere near Notah Begay's talent level for this.

I'm right hand and right eye dominant, I use a center shafted putter with a SBST stroke, my putting still stinks, but it's best this way.

Right dominant; heel shafted ancient no name putter; stable triange with upper arms glued to the torso. I played a lot of PuttPutt with my granddaughter this summer and feel as if I can use any type putter with my stroke.

I honestly don't know...I just worry about keeping my left wrist firm through the stroke and setting up the same every time...my putter looks like this...




I practice right hand only putting, but I tried the whole dominate eye/hand analysis and spun off into bad putting for awhile...big thing that I mutter to myself over putts is to "putt like a kid"...just roll the ball without fear, keeping fundamentals intact of course...

I don't get it.

I am right-handed in daily life, play golf right-handed, and when I did the test I found that I was much more comfortable and slightly more effective putting right-hand only, than I was putting left-hand only (though I did quite well with that).

Assuming that my previous paragraph applies to most golfers (substitute "left" for "right" if applicable), can the Adams and Tomasi recommendation be generalized into the following advice: Lefties should use a heel-shafted putter ..... Righties should use a center-shafted putter ....?

That just doesn't seem right! What am I missing? Was the recommendation independent of 'handedness' or did it apply to 'righties' only (for example)? Please elaborate if you can!

For me, at least half of the things published in books and magazines concerning the swing are suspect and designed to be eyecatching rather than effective...how many putting styles are there on the PGA tour!?!?!? Exactly...but to write an article in January about putting that says to become a good putter, you need to keep your forward wrist in the same position thoughout the stroke, have a stance that you can keep balance easily, and set up the same every time...the rest is up to you and hours on the putting green getting comfortable with your style and developing feel like a guard has for a jumpshot...that leaves 11 months and untold years of future publications with nothing to print...and most golf magazines have at least three "tips" each month concering each facet of the game...that's alot of required information for movements that in essence aren't that difficult...read magazines enough and you'll be convinced that they are that difficult though...

I quit reading magazines about a year ago, and my subscription to GolfDigest ran out a month ago. I have a sizeable stack of unread magazines that will soon disappear into a box (I am not ready to trash them yet ). I used to read the entire GD magazine in one sitting the day it got in! Now, I use my own feel and intuition to decide what to work on. And I have learned soooooo much more from this forum than from magazines.......

The recommendation was based independent of 'handedness' or eye dominance.

It basically said to putt 10 times with each hand. I would assume that for left handed golfers the same story would apply - except opposite (ie left hand dominant ->center shafted and right hand dominant -> toe weighted.)

OK. Thank you!