Putting - always going left - slow motion video

[Geoff_Dickson]

Most of my putts go left....I think this slo-mo video highlights a half-decent backswing...but then it gets ugly.   Where to from here?

 

[Valtiel]

Where is your intended start line here? Without seeing your shoulder alignment it looks like you're trying to aim a few feet right of the flag, but your stroke re-routes pretty significantly to the left and the ball starts a foot left of the flag, so several feet left of where your feet are aiming. If your shoulder alignment is off here and is more in line with where the ball is starting then you just have an alignment problem where your hands/arms are just re-aligning with your shoulders. We'd need a full shot to confirm that though. 

[darkhelmet]

Looks like your right forearm is rotating over the top of your left forearm as you come through.

 

Tried to replicate what is happening here, and I could do it if I opened up my left shoulder as I came forward.  Maybe that's what's going on?

 

Also, if you're going for an arced putter path and you don't rotate your shoulders at all on the backswing, but you do rotate them on the downswing, you end up with a similar result.

[Geoff_Dickson]

7 hours ago, Valtiel said:

Where is your intended start line here? Without seeing your shoulder alignment it looks like you're trying to aim a few feet right of the flag, but your stroke re-routes pretty significantly to the left and the ball starts a foot left of the flag, so several feet left of where your feet are aiming. If your shoulder alignment is off here and is more in line with where the ball is starting then you just have an alignment problem where your hands/arms are just re-aligning with your shoulders. We'd need a full shot to confirm that though. 

 

It was a straight, uphill putt. Yep, alignment is a big issue.

 

[ac6]

I'd guess your shoulders must be aimed at least a little left as your forearms are pointing left of where your feet are aiming. Your "on top" right hand grip isn't helping either since your natural wrist hinge is going to tend to get you going outside-in and shut face. Maybe try strengthening the right-hand grip to get it feeling like it's working under the left hand, or try left-hand-low.

[NewDecadeMultiCompound]

it would help to see where your eyes are relative to the ball. standing too much over the ball can cause a left tendency

[Wham49]

standing eyes over the ball will make left happen for sure.

 

I switch back and forth between the claw and normal sometimes, gets you out of a rut, changes your view

Edited November 18, 2022 by Wham49

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[Itsjustagame]

Don't know how much you have experimented with different putters, but I can't putt well with anything other than a slant neck. 

[srsbeans]

Did you make much progress with this? The thing that jumped out to me was the huge follow-through compared to the shortish backstroke. If you know that your backstroke isn't long enough it's easy to start recruiting the trail side for speed.

[slytown]

Withough seeing the shoulders it looks like you fear the right miss/push and do a re-route after the backswing finishes. Look how at the end if the backswing the transition starts wit the the toe end of the clubhead moving horizontal to the right. The backswing looks fine, but the club should start transition back on the same path and then arc, or rotate, left of target after contact.