All too often, golfers will purchase golf clubs, including putters, straight off the shelves of your local sporting goods store, their local retail outlets, or from a fellow golfer.These purchases are made with no thought as to if that particular putter is even a proper fit to them or their game. Just like a fine suit is tailored to every inch of your body for exact fit your putter and every other club in your bag should be tailored to not only your body but your game as well. Everybody is different and unique.
There is no one off the shelf set of clubs designed to fit every single golfer, or even the majority of golfers. If you took the putter measurements of 10 professional golfers, you would find that all 10 had in someway, different measurements including length, lie angle, loft, offset, weight, and design. All blended together with one single purpose in mind: to help the golfer make more putts!
Can you imagine the frustration the pros would go through if they had to change their putting stroke to accommodate a different putter every time they decided to change their clubs? Yet 99% of all recreational golfers go about purchasing new clubs this way. They buy a club straight off the rack and then make the adjustments with their body to compensate for this new putter.
Lets take a look at the biggest factor in putter fitting and how to correct it:
Putter Length
The length of your putter has a direct effect on how you set up to your putt. If you are like the majority of recreational golfers, your playing with a putter that's either too long or too short for your natural stroke. Using a putter that's too long for you will set the ball too far away from your body. This affects how your eyes are positioned over the ball, having your eyes not over the target line, but inside of it. This will also cause your arms and hands to be much closer than you want to your body, not allowing your arms to hang naturally. This causes you to manipulate your hands and arms through the stroke to compensate for the length.
Putters that are too short have the opposite effect. The ball is set too close to your body, causing your eyes to be well outside of your target line. Two short of putter will also cause you to have to extend your arms out further from your body causing to have to "reach" out to the ball during the stroke. To find your ideal putter length you can use a very simple method right from your own home.
Without a putter in your hands, set up to address over a ball as if you were going to putt. Let your arms hang naturally in front of you as you reach out and grip an imaginary putter in the most comfortable and natural feeling manner. This will set your hands in their most natural position without being influenced by gripping an actual putter.
Now without moving your hands or arms from this position, have a friend or spouse place your putter back in your hands. Notice where your hands are on the club NOW compared to where you gripped it in the past. You'll probably be a bit surprised at where your hands end up on the putter. This is the correct length you should be playing with. Now with a piece of tape, mark one half-inch above the hand closest to your body on the putter grip, if your grip is now lower than before. If your new grip is higher up on the grip wrap the tape ½ in. below the bottom hand. This is how long of a putter you should be playing with.
Your local Golf Outlet or Pro Shop can take this information and make the necessary adjustments for you at a very minimal cost.
Scott Myers has helped hundreds of below-average and "horrible" putters start shooting the best scores of their life by teaching a new step-by-step putting formula designed to drop 7-to-9 stroke from the average golfers score in just 4 ½ minutes. To learn more about his breakthrough method, visit www.puttingsecretsrevealed.com
With the Humminbird Matrix 10 a Full Cooler Of Fish Every Time Is Possible
The Humminbird 10 is an excellent tool that is even better than other fishfinders because it is so affordable. It offers you anglers advanced capabilities that are simply great tools to use in finding the fish you are looking for. The display is in high definition giving you a very clear look. It is GPS ready so when you decide to hook up GPS to the Matrix 10, you'll be able to locate your position no matter where you are. It also features Plug & Play compatibility with Weather Sense Barometric Pressure and SmartCast Wireless Sonar Link. All of these features help to deliver for you the most clear picture on your boating trip. It allows you to know what is happen, why and where so that you are better prepared to grab that fish.
Additional features for the Humminbird 10 include freshwater and saltware set ups so that you get the best of both worlds. You get water surface temperature to help you know just what can be living in the area you are at. You get a great feature with the accerated Real Time Sonar operation. It gives you information up to forty times per second so as to give you the best, most up to date picture of what's under the boat. Finding the action, giving you the complete details of what is happening and providing for you the ability to find the perfect fish is what the Matrix 10 is all about.
So, what does all this mean? Why should you purchase the Humminbird 10? It is easy to understand this. All of these features allow you to have the best of the best in high quality displays that tell you just what is happening under the surface of the water. They give you a clear picture that you can then use to catch the fish that you are after.
Imagine going home with a full cooler of fish every time you head out onto the lake. The Matrix 10 is an affordable way to get this advantage.
Niall is a keen fisherman always looking at new tools to help him catch more fish. Visit Fish Finder Review for more information and great deals to help you find a Humminbird Matrix 10 or other Humminbird GPS/Sonar marine navigation systems. http://www.fish-finder-review.com
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Big Brother 7 - Lisa is Evicted
Lisa Huo became the fifth housemate to be evicted from the Big brother house after she was voted out ahead of Nikki Grahame, Imogen Thomas and Mikey Dalton in a four-way tussle.
As soon as Grace was given the boot last week, Lisa was odds-on favourite at 4/5 to be next person out of the door with the bookmakers expecting nominations from Aisleyne, Richard, Susie and Pete for the foul mouthed unemployed upholsterer from Manchester.
Big Brother introduced a twist this week for nomination-discussing rule breakers Glyn, Imogen, Lea, Lisa and Nikki who were not be allowed to nominate in the normal fashion. Instead, they each had to nominate one member of their group, on the spot, in front of everyone else. They were not allowed to discuss their choices or nominate themselves and the housemate with the most nominations would automatically face eviction via the public vote. The voting went as follows:
Glyn and Lisa nominated Nikki, Imogen voted for Lea who returned the favour and Nikki voted for Lisa. With two nominations Nikki faced eviction for the third successive week.
The rest of the housemates – Aisleyne, Mikey, Pete, Richard and Susie were allowed to nominate as usual in the privacy of the Diary Room. As Nikki was already put up for the public vote, the remaining housemates were not allowed to nominate her, which saw Imogen, Lisa and Mikey thrown into the eviction mix.
By Monday night, Lisa was 1/4 favourite for eviction, despite the remainder of the nominated housemates not being revealed officially until Tuesday evening.
Lisa's price shortened considerably as the day's neared Friday's eviction night until she was trading at 1/100 so it was no surprise when host Davina McCall announced she was evicted.
Lisa appeared to be expecting to leave as she reacted well with a typical mix of smiles and good natured profanity, hugging each of her housemates in turn and repeating select phrases including "sorted mate", "mint", "take it easy" and "have fun".
Following a few weeks where housemates have received landslide eviction percentages – Grace polling 87.9% and of course Sezer's 91.6%, Lisa received a more respectable 60.3% of the vote considering she wasn't trading at odds-against once during eviction week.
Big Brother's latest twist will see five new contestants entering a secret "second" house next Friday. The new house, accessible via the diary room, features its own bedroom, kitchen, lounge, bathroom and garden area.
Instead of voting to evict a housemate next week, the public will instead choose one housemate to "save" but live with the five newcomers in the new house.
David Walker runs Big Brother betting and Daddy Fantastic websites. Updated Big Brother news is available across both websites.