[Delaware Golf]

Is it advisale to swing or hit our putts. I was playing with a 5 hdcp today, who seemed (to ME) hit his strokes rather than swing them aka Faxon, Crenshaw, etc. So I ask, is it better to swing or hit your puts.

thanks.

The real question is whether your going to use vertical or angled hinging...Tom Tomasello taught a hands only putting stroke per 10-20-A with angled hinging...I have seen Ben Doyle teach a right arm triggered putting stroke with angled hinging. There are a number of instructors who use vertical hinging...if you know the difference between the two hinging actions, the putting stroke with vertical hinging is really a manipulative stroke...the putting stroke with angled hinging is a very natural action...

Instead of thinking hitting or swinging with putting, I believe the key is one should be thinking along the lines of 1-L-12 and 1-L-15...please read and study those two facts in 1-L...as Ben Doyle says in the "Foreward" of the book..."The 21 facts in the third edition, 1-L, have been so useful for precision golf...

DG