Richard Cummingham, The Villages, FL
Not only is it possible, it's already been done. We'll take your letter as a request for more instruction on the long putter, but we published a good one by instructor Tom Ness with Matthew Rudy in 2002. It said, among other things:
THINK PENDULUM
The beauty of the long putter is that it gives you one fixed center around which to stroke the putterhead back from and through the ball. The sweeping, pendulum stroke is more consistent than the handsy stroke poor putters use with a standard putter. Plus, practicing with a long putter is easier on the back. That's good, since the most common complaint about this club is trouble with distance control due to the fact that the fine motor muscles of the hands are deemphasized. Spend some extra time on the practice green to get the feel.
The whole article is worth a read. Not everyone thinks these long putters are great thing. For comments by players who like and dislike the long putter, including Tom Clark, left, click here.
Bob Carney
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