I posted a putting problem a couple of days ago. I got a few replies (tanks) , but none of them triggered what had bin hidden in the back of my mind.
Here's a follow-up:
The last days my putiting progress has advanced from bad to *just* poor. And I can almost trace a straight line with my eyes standing over the ball now. After today's weekly medal I rounded it up with a short session on the putting green. Soon good ideas reaced my concious.
vj has somewhere on this forum written that the ball always shall be struck at lowpoint with the putter. That Idea appeared as I was playing a round on the putting green. So I started to pay attention to where my low point (also the aiming point) was in relation to the ball. It was not consistent from shot to shot, it was blurred - and it was not at the ball.
As soon as I started to am "at" the center of the ball (actually an imaginary line around the ball at right angles to the plane line)- and not just tracing the plane line through the ball, the putter became more obidient instantly.
Then another image appeared: The way Brian traps the ball in "confessions of a former flipper" video.
So I started focus on trapping the ball and make sure that the low pont of the stroke was where the ball had been. From there it was easy to release the ball on the intended line with the intended speed. Pressure point control was being restored.
As I write these words, it becomes clear that "Impact fix" is not just a geometric position. Perhaps more important than aligning the grip and the hands is the mind zooming in on impact - seeing and feeling how the club needs to be moved in order to get the correct impact.
If I manage to take this to the course the next time there will be less than 2 putts/gir. And a bonus: I know in my guts that this mindset - this mental (and geometric) impact fixation will do good for the rest of my game also. I've been there before and it's a fun place to be for a golfer; Playing with the feeling that this shot will go where I decide.
If I wasn't visiting this site regularly, the two ideas would not have emerged and I would still be in the fog. What a great community this has turned into.
10.000 thanks to all posters (one for each of the posts sofar).
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