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A couple of thoughts ,, FIrst of all if you could address (no pun intended) your posture,,, It seems different then others,especially the neck ,, I have tried to copy this and it seems like my neck is down more then it usually is on a typical setup when i try this... Not sure I am describing correctly but you can certainly see it in the videos.
speaking of video why not some more current ones ,, Seems we can do better then those from two years ago,, Certainly cheaper and less time consuming then making a commercial one.
I love everything about your putting ideas but do have a slight problem.. Anything inside 10 feet I miss more putts with this stroke then I do with one ala Steve Stricker.. I am not sure if it is because my read is bad with not torqued stroke or that with a more conventional stroke i can make the putter go toward the hole better???
Also hope you heading florida way this winter sometime!!!!!!!!!
My posture is for me personally. The first main general point for any golfer is that the aiming posture is to "face" the ball and sweetspot by aiming the face at the ball, not the eyes. The eyes look where the face itself aims. The aim of the face is the same aim as the side pieces on glasses, or the line from the top of the ear past the corner of the eye socket, and this line is perpendicular to the axis of rotation up thru the center of the head out the button on the cap. This facing allows the golfer to rotate or swivel the head like an apple on a stick to turn the face, and then the line of sight moves along the ground in a straight line, the same line as the aim of the putter face, and whatever shows up to eyes still looking where the face aims at the end of the turning of the face the right distance is where the putter aims.
The second general point for all golfers is that this aiming posture does not have to be kept for the stroke, as there is no requirement in the Rules of Golf that there is only one setup posture for both aiming and stroking. The aiming posture is only to verify that you like the aim. But once you like where the putter aims, then you can just re-set to the aimed putter face with the posture you like when you make the stroke. If this second posture has the neck and head raised up, who cares, since for the stroke everything above the base of the neck and the shoulder frame is irrelevant. Actually, I have to take that back just a tiny bit, since a head whose axis of rotation parallels the ground will not swing back or forth during a shoulder stroke but instead will swivel on the axis in one spot, like spinning a pencil with the eraser parked against the same spot on a wall. When the shoulders rock and the neck tilts up, the head swings back and forth, moreso the more the neck tilts up from parallel. A tilted-up neck and head is not a problem, though, if you use a "no face, little face" control during the stroke. By this I mean the golfer would not allow the face to move off its looking straight down when the backstroke is made, and the face holds still until in the forward stroke the putter meets the ball, and then the stroke thru impact and shoulder rock is allowed to shift the face down the target line a little, perhaps 6 inches or so, from looking at the ball to looking at a spot about 6 inches down the target line ("little face" swivel thru impact). This pattern of head motion control avoids coming out of square in the backstroke but since impact is over so quickly, then allowing the head to swivel a little down the line avoids cramping the shoulder stroke with neck tension holding the head against the shoulder action -- let the head turn a little with the shoulders thru impact.
VIDEOS
You're right -- just trying to find time and someone to help. I also need a wireless microphone.
SHORT PUTTS
I imagine you missed my talk about the difference between tempo and rhythm. The tempo is how fast you make the rhythm, and the rhythm is always "same time to top of backstroke" as "time from there to top of follow-thru", which is a 1-to-1 rhythm and this is the most common rhythm of things that naturally swing to and fro. The preferred tempo is the one that results when the Earth's gravity brings the arms and putter back down from the top of the backstroke, so in that case the backstroke from ball to top of backstroke is made to match in timing whatever the Earth does from the top of the backstroke to the top of the follow-thru. But the tempo can speed up, so long as the rhythm does not alter from a natural swing. So, on short putts, you can tighten the grip and make a quicker, shorter stroke, but don't lose the rhythm by stopping the follow-thru or speeding up the downstroke out of the back-and-forth symmetry of things that swing naturally. Cutting short the follow-thru is a choke stroke that stops short, and a sped-up stroke will always go thru any break and pass the hole quite too far. So, on short putts, sped up and shorten up the stroke if you like, but keep the stroke a nice swinging rhythm back and thru. When you speed up the tempo, then you leave behind the Earth tempo, so now you first observe whatever time you take in the backstroke from ball to top of backstroke and then make sure you take the same time to finish the stroke, and not less time or more time. That rhythmic stroke is always safe, so long as you dislike going long and won't allow it and you don't quit on the rhythm.