[Ted Kramer]

This is coming from a very average putting 8 handicap, please take my thoughts with a few grains of salt . . .

Regarding the word "jabbing". . .
Look at where the butt end of the club points at the top of the back swing.
It points well left of the golfer's navel and body. It is "not connected" to the body.

Look at where it points at the end of the stroke.
The butt end of the putter points right at the navel.
It is now "connected" to the body and most like has been since the putter head was coming into impact.

This connection will "slow" down the stroke making it look more "jabby".
The backswing will look and feel more "free flowing" while it isn't "connected" to the body and it will look "jabby" as it slows down and "connects" and moves through impact with the body.

-Ted

[Bob_Huntley]

I wonder if BL struggled a bit with the turf there at Augusta, so different - I'd imagine - from that of the British links courses

Peter 

Peter

Bob Huntley may be able to advise here.  Did Bobby Locke putt on warm climate greens in South Africa?  Or, was he primarily exposed to cool climate grasses, a ka British greens (and NE USA, and West Coast USA)?  If you are not used to warm climate grasses, they can be really difficult to maintain the same high putting standard on.

Not sure whether you meant the putting turf or the fairway turf.  It wouldn't surprise me if the putting turf may have proved more difficult for Bobby.

James B

James,

Locke's career started in South Africa and the greens had a temendous amount of grain. The grain always grew in the direction of the setting sun. I believe that when playing in the UK it must have been like shooting fish in a barrrel for the greens there were reaonably flat and true.

Bob

[JESII]

Regardless of what he said or thought he did, those photos show clear evidence of some serious wrist action...besides, I read about Ben Crenshaw (possibly in a Rotella book, but I am not sure) talk about needing to feel his head and his knees moving to make a good stroke...so the old theories of keeping still are just that...

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