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Originally Posted by JPsuff
Because putting is not like a regular shot wherein a more or less standard setup, takeaway, downswing, throughswing is employed.
Putting is a bit like shooting free throws. First, you need to have a natural aptitude for doing so and if that aptitude does not exist, then all the fittings in the world aren't going to help. But assuming one has the ability then the rest is feel. As I mentioned, striking a putt is more about feel and sensing what needs to happen than anything else and as such manipulation of the putter is common. And if one adjusts the putter to accommodate subtle variances and vagaries in a green, then the "fitting" is compromised anyway.
Pick a putter that feels good in your hands, strike a few putts with it and if they feel good as well, then you're "fitted". Everything else is imagination, feel and touch.
It's not the cost (20 bucks is certainly no big deal) but to me it seems rather pointless and sounds like yet another gimmick to raise the hopes of the putting impaired as well as squeezing a few more shekels from the golfing public.
But if you're convinced it'll work for you, then knock yourself out!
-JP
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I'm not buying your argument...I am convinced that there is a way for every club to feel better in your hands than one that you just pick off the rack...sure you could find a putter that would do the job off the rack...but what if you could make it better? One size fits all is a myth...make it easier to shoot the free throws...
I beg to differ about putting not being like a regular shot...do you set up differently over the ball on various putting shots, or do you take a similar stance every time over the ball? If it is the latter, which would lump you with 99% of the golfing public, why wouldn't a putter that had optimal lenght, weighting, balance and lie angle help?
And what about all the natrual aptitude stuff??!?!?!? Please JP, defending an argument against being fitted by telling all those who currently struggle with the flatstick that they should just hang it up because they don't have "it"?!?!? You aren't making sense on this one...
