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In this concept video we're going to discuss the arm lock putter.

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So I had a member question about what adaptations or what are the

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considerations if you're switching

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to an arm lock putter or considering it.

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So in general we have the same few goals for putting.

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We're trying to start the ball online at a specific speed.

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The major influence for the start line is going to be the putter face control.

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So one of the advantages to the arm lock putter is that it helps take the wrist

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out of or

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it helps stabilize the wrist I should say.

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So most of the way that the arm lock putters are going to be built these days,

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you're going

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to have the flat grip kind of facing the target some have around.

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This is going to basically sit up against the forearm.

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Now in researching this one rule that you have to be careful about is you have

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to get fit

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through your arm lock putter based on your posture because I borrowed this from

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a student

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and it's actually illegal if I was to put with it because if I get bent over

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the arm

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lock touches above, it touches my tricep above the elbow.

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So anything touching above the elbow is deemed in a legal anchoring.

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So if I was going to use this I would have to stand up kind of artificially

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tall.

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Now the grip or the wrist position is going, we still want to have a little bit

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of ulnar

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deviation and we still want to have a little bit of tension and flexion and

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that risk

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can help.

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So if I create a little bit of a pressure movement by kind of holding it like

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this kind

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of like the one of the cell phone wrist drills that we use for the full swing,

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that's going

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to essentially keep the wrist and the putter face under more control.

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Now one of the challenges here is the other element that really influences your

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putter

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face is going to be the shoulder and when you have your arm straight like this

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it can

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induce or it can make it easier to rotate the shoulder compared to if the arm

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is bent.

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So compared to the conventional setup or conventional putting approach, this

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can really help you

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stabilize your wrist but you have to manually stabilize the shoulder.

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The other consideration for putter face control is that as you move your

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shoulders, if you

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move them in a more rotational fashion it's almost going to be worse for the

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arm lock.

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So if you have rotational shoulders this can be a great training aid for

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helping you feel

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like your shoulders work in a tilting fashion because it will be less forgiving

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to rotational

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shoulders when you have less of an ability to make a compensation with your

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wrist.

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The other last consideration for start line is vision which is in order for my

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eyes to

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kind of track the start line, I want my eyes and my head to basically follow

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the path similar

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to my start line and when I'm standing up taller as I turn my head that tends

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to make

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it look like I'm aimed a little bit more left.

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So you really have to do your homework and do some start line practice to get

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used to

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what it will look like from a little bit different posture.

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But the overall kind of mechanics are going to be fairly similar.

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We're going to have kind of that pizza wedge shape but instead of it being just

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ahead of

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the belly button now it's kind of closer to the left shoulder there, I'm going

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to still

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try to kind of create some stability in my arms by kind of locking in this

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trail arm

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and shoulder and locking in that lead forearm and wrist and then my stroke is

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going to be

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driven more from this core or shoulder rotation kind of like this.

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Some people feel it really helps take the wrist out of play.

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Ball position is going to tend to be slightly more forward that will also

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encourage the

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more shoulder tilt or the more exaggerated shoulder tilt and kind of staying

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behind.

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So if you're looking from a face on camera, don't be surprised if you see your

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upper body

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moving a little bit more backward than with a conventional putting grip and put

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ter.

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But overall if you are really struggling with being wristy with your putting, I

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think that

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this would be a nice thing to try.

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You could head over to one of the big golf stores and try it out.

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And if you feel like it helps you really take the wrist out of play, then it

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will encourage

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more of that upper body dominant or that shoulder driven motion.

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The last piece, this can also be helpful similar to a cross-handed style.

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It can be helpful for people who have a little bit more of a drag of the

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shoulders on the

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way through.

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It's a little bit more forgiving than if you did that with a conventional put

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ter because

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the anchor is a little bit higher up towards the shoulder instead of lower down

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towards

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the spine.

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So there's a number of advantages.

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The one major disadvantage I've seen from playing around with it is for some

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people it's

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tougher on speed control.

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So you definitely got to do some speed control drills.

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It can be harder to take a longer swing.

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I really have to rotate my body.

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So when you start getting into those 50, 60, 70 footers, it's tougher to make a

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big enough

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swing.

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So then if you start trying to get a little extra speed, you can change your

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tempo, you

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can change your hip rotation, you can start trying to add wrist.

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Some of those can make it a little bit harder to control it on those really

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long putts.

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So that's the one downside I've seen.

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But if you're trying to take your wrist out and you're curious about it,

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hopefully this

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gives you a few things to kind of investigate.

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Getting the arms fairly stable with a little bit of kind of facial tension and

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then controlling

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the stroke with a little bit more vertical motion where the putter is going to

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feel like

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it's traveling a little bit more up and straight.

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I think those are a couple of keys for helping you with your start line and

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then you just

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got to do the work in order to dial in your speed control.