I like to extend that time period around impact. So it’s only perfect at one instant in time. If you’re rotating your putter blade, then it’s open a lot, open a little, perfect, closed a little bit, and closed a lot. But it’s hard to do that unless the putter is there swinging squarely through impact over a long period of time, because timing is very important in golf. If you have your putter blade exactly square to where you want the ball to go, that’s when you hit the putts perfectly. You’ve probably never been on time your whole life-you’ve either been minute or two early or late, or a second, or a millisecond, or a nanosecond.
It’s like trying to be somewhere on time. The rotation of a putter blade through impact does nothing good for a putt, and it does a lot of bad if you hit the ball early or late in your swing, as that means your face will be open or closed. He is the worlds foremost instructor of putting and the short game. I myself, in my own stroke, stand so that I can take it straight-back and straight-through. Dave Pelz is the author of four bestselling classics of golf instruction -Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible, Dave Pelzs Putting Bible, Dave Pelzs Damage Control and Dave Pelzs Golf Without Fear. But I try to get people there in our schools, and I see if it feels natural, and if it feels okay, I leave it there because they putt better that way.
A minority of putters stand in a posture that allows them to putt straight-back and straight-through. But many more people putt that way than straight-back and straight-through. It’s not quite as simple a motion as straight-back and straight-through, and I’d rather have that. It just means that the putter is going to swing slightly inside on the back swing, and slightly inside on the follow through. But that doesn’t mean you have to rotate your forearms or break your wrists. When you stand over your putter, you can drop your hands vertical from your shoulder sockets, but if they are outside of that vertical position, then your arms must rotate around your body, and that dictates that you must have an inside-to-inside arcing stroke.