How to Use the Long Putter

Video Transcript

"Hello, This is Conan Elliott I'm the Director of Instruction here at Camas Meadows Golf Club in Camas, Washington. Today we're going to talk about how to use a long putter. And the materials you will need from this is naturally a long putter, not to be confused with a standard length putter or a Belling putter, but a long putter. It comes clear up to your chest. You might want a green, you might want a hole and for sure you're going to need a ball. Long putter is a totally different technique than any of the other putting. All other putting strokes basically are about using our shoulders with our arms stationary and our hands stationary and using our body to move the putter. Here, in a long putter technique it's about not using our body at all and literally swinging the putter on a pendulum from a fixed point. So what we usually do is set the putter on line, step in to it and then there's several ways, you could put your hand in front of the putter shaft, you could put your hand on the side, but the idea is that you lock that at a point. Some people lock at a little to the left side, some people lock at right in the middle, but it locks here. Mose people use a claw grip on this putter. You don't have to but most do. And then you literally, don't use your shoulders, don't move your legs, you just literally swing the putter back and through on a pendulum from this point. This is Conan Elliott and that's how to use a long putter."