The key to finding a good feeling My Day is the zip code in the rear cavity. The early examples had the 85029 code while the later ones had the 85020 code. The early (85029) My Day is the one Brad used. They are a bit heavier and much more solid. In addition, the later issue had the topline mark/line off-center toward the toe. GOOD LUCK! 🙂
@@oatechaosincycles They are more difficult to find, but well worth your effort. I'm curious: what length putter do you use and in what area of the world do you live? Good luck in your quest...
@@RollYourRock Im in Georgia USA. I use a 33 3/4" putter. My current gamer is a Scotty Cameron Pro Platinum Newport 2. It was a restoration project and no longer has the nickel plating. Super soft but great feedback. Lots of up keep though!
@@oatechaosincycles Ha Ha, I play an old-school Cameron as well. My current gamer is a sub 330g 1995 Gun Blue Newport. At 36 1/4", and with a 79g grip, it weighs 505g and a swingweight of D3. At this length, the old Camerons and Pings keep the overall weight and the swingweight within reason (D2-D3). BTW, leave your putter "raw", there's no finish left on my Newport either! 😂
My take on what is being said is that intuition has to take over in the putt stroke. Without that, it's just a mechanical stroke....and will not be very successul, esp on long putts.
Yep. Overthinking and focusing on your stroke too much creates a bad putt. You got to get in the zone and just out it in the hole. Work on the mechanics at home.
I feel exactly the same thing. I need to feel motion....esp before putting. If I'm frozen, I often lose the real sensitive touch needed to putt. I often have a very slight sway motion....and especially on the shortest most sensitive putts....that you can botch up, simply with a bad twitch when hitting the ball. Need to feel flow.
In a ideal world you would stay down through the ball so you don't peek up and leave the blade open, the blade needs to close through the ball; looking up through anxiety results in the baby weak putts where the blade is open (Rory on 18 2024 US OPEN or Doug Sanders in the Open here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rmts92cXMD4.htmlsi=hLrx9tbSYZXlyGQc ), but you don't want it to interrupt your stroke as Fax was saying. Tiger Woods did this well as did Nick Faldo - just to name a few great Majors Champions. And: 1. 4 time Open Champion, 15 time PGA Tour winner, 90+ Professional Wins and one of the greatest ever putters, Bobby Locke, always stayed down; he says when I look up I miss so he used to "hit and listen" "why would I want to look up and see a missed putt"; tough to argue with. 2. In one of his US Open victories Gary Player (South African like Bobby Locke) dedicated himself to not watching any short putts (stay down), and he won and missed nothing short that week. 3. Payne Stewart's wife commented that he was looking up too early in the 3d round of his US Open (she watched on T.V.). This was something he would work on and a something his late Father told his wife to watch and take care of after he passed. I watched his victory last night again - via the "One Moment in Time" 1999 US Open video) recent take on victory and you can clearly see him: a) in a super calm zen like state; something to behold b) his head down well through the ball c) putting superbly to win his third major. See it here (includes his wife's comments about the head) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VMCZyTw8-ao.htmlsi=vcNtPMtY_DDGxHiG I call it an anchor. You don't have to specifically think about your head to keep it from rising, you could "hit and listen" as Locke said, you could see what is under the ball as Faldo did or think about the path as you putt (I do this)
Putting is mostly about being able to line up your putt correctly and read the breaks. If I can't see the imaginary path of the ball, I know that I won't make the putt. This is where judgment takes over.
@@RollYourRock look at how jack and arnie.or floyd or player had their own style..now.everyone mostly stands the same ,.no.one croutches like.Jack did...
99+ percent of the handicap players do not understand the putting stroke. So build yourself a wooden putter with a square shaft and at an offset angle to the wooden blade as required by the rules of golf. Then run your stroke on the upper edge of a stairstep where the shaft cannot rotate because of it's square shaft. What you will observe is EXACTLY what Brad describes above. The blade will appear to your eyes to ARC and it will open and close (relative to the target) even though it is riding a a straight edged stair step. and cannot rotate. Explanation - It is the LIFT of the blade off the ground at the offset angle, during the stroke, that takes place that causes this to happen. The angles that form because of the angle offset are not what the average player understands. Most touring pro's do. The people at "the Putting Arc" actually sell a clip on device to essentially do the same thing as I describe above. Then, once you understand this, the rules of Crenshaw and Tiger all apply. You must hold the putter very lightly and RELEASE IT which simple means, "let it swing". Suddenly the reason for the use of the big flat topped Super Stroke grip and fingers only on the right hand become obvious too. So does the reason a certain amount of movement is OK. You are putting the putter into it's own non-rotating or NEVER rotating momentum. Tiger's "right hand only: drill also help with all of this. especially the release and going through the ball with no shaft rotation what-so-ever. OK. it makes no sense. How can a putter with a blade that appears to open and close and be on an arc NOT BE ROTATING at all ? Well, build the wooden putter with the square shaft, ride it on a stair step, and see for yourself !!! Some people are going to be very surprised at what they see. Touring pro's won"t.
Pretty decent advice except for that last bit about a putter "has to" swing on an arc because it has a lie angle of 10+ degrees. That's not correct, as "the putter" doesn't move itself, and if the golfer attached to the putter moves shoulders, arms, hands in the thru-stroke VERTICALLY for half a foot or so, even the flattest lie-angle putter on earth moves dead straight. Try it. So the idea that "the putter has to" do anything is wrong, and a stroke that arcs to the inside thru impact is a "pull". And if you watch Faxon's stroke or especially Crenshaw's stroke past impact, the putter head is moving straight and slightly rising vertically above the aim line for at least half a foot past impact. Crenshaw's stroke stays online and rising for about a foot or more. The skill for this is "dead hands," "stand still", and don't rush the tempo of the stroke and instead let the momentum of the hands and putter follow their inherent straight path or at least learn to move deliberately on the same path thru impact.
The "inherent straight path" is contrived, something you have to think about in order to do it - if the hands stay the same distance from the body they will move naturally to the inside, like the handle on a revolving door. Why move the putter VERTICALLY? All the great putters keep the putter low to the ground and a stroke that arcs to the inside isn't a "pull" unless the putter approaches the ball from the outside with the face closed.
I'm finally starting to put this together(I think). It appears to me that Crenshaw, Roberts, and Faxon do a mini right wrist hinge going back then through impact it's a mini hold for a split second? They don't let it fully "release" as they say until far past impact?
