Straight back and straight through?

[Region3]

I'm willing to accept that I am wrong, but I've never understood SBST.

The target line is not a constant distance away from you, so to keep the putter on it you have to reach out, and also manipulate the face to keep it square.

Surely if SBST is the best way to putt we'd have our shoulders over the ball and putters with 90° lie angles.

My one thought when putting is to take the putter back inside the line.

 

[Robobum]

My one intention is to it the putter sweet spot with the face square to where I want to start the ball off.

The loopy twitch in between doesn't bother me too much

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I thinking and seeing straight back and straight through - whether I am doing that in actualeetay I do not know - but whatever I am doing it is working well for me.

 

[ScienceBoy]

NBST for me.

Naturally back straight through.

I focus on getting the club straight and square at impact and through the ball. Important thing is to avoid the dreaded garden gate, nothing wrong with arcing on the way back as long as its repeatable and you deliver a square club on line and hit with the sweet spot. For me a killer is arcing after the ball.

 

[Foxholer]

I'm willing to accept that I am wrong, but I've never understood SBST.

The target line is not a constant distance away from you, so to keep the putter on it you have to reach out, and also manipulate the face to keep it square.

Surely if SBST is the best way to putt we'd have our shoulders over the ball and putters with 90° lie angles.

My one thought when putting is to take the putter back inside the line.

You only have to swivel the shoulders - making a pendulum motion - and the putter face is square - or at least as close to square as possible. With an Arc (Open Gate, Shut Gate) action, there's also a 'timing variable' involved - the strike must be when the club is actually aiming at the target.

Shoulders over ball? Check out Michelle Wie's action! Others simply align everything up parallel to target line and swing along that line - therefore swing and ball direction is on target line!

 

[Jimaroid]

It's an arc. Golf isn't two dimensional.

 

[HankMarvin]

Arc

 

[Lump]

SBST here.
I use a face balanced putter and left hand low putting grip to eliminate as much arc as absolutely possible. My putting this year has been vastly improved since jumping to left hand low which just makes things so much easier.

 

[mcbroon]

Not a clue. I've got enough to worry about.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Back using my odyssey fang 2 ball so it's built to be stable and back and through. If that misbehaves my odyssey #9 is more of an arc putter

 

[Capella]

It's an arc. Golf isn't two dimensional.

Agreed, but I think the question is more: is the plane of the arc vertical or tilted, so is the projection of the arc onto the putting surface a straight line or an arc Oh, the wonderful world of geometry.