Fitting yourself for Lie Angle with your putter.....
I'm looking towards getting a putter i'm more comfortable with lie wise. I've been praticing with my putter at 33" (choking down) to get my eyes over the ball with backweighting so that it doesn't "feel" too light.
However i feel like i'm very bent over, which is fine cuz i'll get used to it, but the lie angle doesn't feel right now.
Since lie angle is very important in irons i feel it is a missing art in putters.
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I'm looking into a custom putter in the next few months and would like a way to learn how to fit myself for a better lie angle.
Thanks
Jim
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I'm not a TGM or PGA certified Pro, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
Turn a cd upside down. Place it in front of a mirror on the floor. Put a ball in the hole of the cd.
Take stance until you see your eyes lined up with the ball and intended target line. Now just turn your head to the mirror and LOOK where your putters toe is in relation to the ground.
Sometimes, you can put your putter on the ground and step on the shaft enough to bend it to the right lie angle.
vj says putter fitting is very important he says that the forearms should line up with the shaft and be on the same plane. I have started putting this way and am putting much better. I would very much like to see what he says about putting posture and putter fitting. I would think that the lie angle would be dictated by having the sweet spot of the putter directly below the eye line and matching the forearms by the shaft being on the same plane. Address posture will have an effect on this.
The forearms should be inline with the puttershaft. It is the same thing as going to impact fix with the right forearm in plane with the shaft (12-3-0) Section 2 Number 6. With putting the shaft will have better support with the putter and rear forearm in plane with the putter.
The reason for the left forearm in plane is a matter of sameness and a matter of alignment. With the left and right forearm in plane (in line) the shoulders will have a better chance of agreement with 10-9 "combinations of impact and address positions for the hands and the body (in relation to the plane line)." While it is a variation to use 10-9-D for putting it is advisable to have a body which is parallel to plane line.
From there you may have a long putter (35 inches or more for traditional putter styles) which will have the elbows bent or a shorter putter with the arms extended. Both should have the eyes over the line of the putt.
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