Golf Club Counterweighting – NO SECRET!

A recent Golf World article provides interesting insights on golf club counterweighting!

The September 3 issue of Golf World magazine has an article about some of the elements of the golf clubs that Sergio Garcia plays.  Here is a link to that article:

    http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-tours-news/2012-09/gwar-equipment-johnson-0903

There are many interesting things that are discussed in this brief article.  Some of them include:

 1.  Sergio plays a driver that is about 43 inches long, and he plays a driver shaft that is considerably heavier than most tour players play.  Well, guess hitting it 291 yards on average os OK?

 2.  Sergio uses counterweights in all of his golf clubs.  This is something that is fairly unique to him compared to other tour players.  But Jack Nicklaus did this, wonder why others have not followed?

What was perhaps of most interest to me in the article was the statement that many tour players are using counterweights in their putters.  While this is something that makes sense, I have never before seen an article that openly indicated that many tour players are doing this.  We have talked in the past on this blog that Putter Counterweighting is perhaps the "secret sauce" to help a player develop great speed control and rhythm in his putting.

There was a wonderful quote in the article that hopefully you will catch if you read it.  Padrig Harrington counterweights his putter, and he said that it is "…so good it should be banned."  Well this is something that I totally agree with – NOT that putter counterweighting should be banned (!), but that counterweighting is a tremendous tool to help golfers improve their putting.

Do you counterweight your putter? – if you do, please comment on the results that you are achieving.

The Fit Is IT!!

Tony