[Siliespiriulk]

SBST for me. I use an Odyssey 2-ball and that's my swing thought or putt thought if you will for putts inside 25' or so. Anything longer than that and I focus more on distance control ... as someone else posted it's nearly impossible to actually go SBST on longer putts, but whatever arc there is is natural and minimal.

[casinoboneerer]

Is a blade putter better for SBST? I just got a mallet and I can't seem to find my putting stroke anymore.

Conventional wisdom is that rear-shafted blades are best for a putting stroke that arcs, while mallets (higher MOI/resistance to twisting), especially center-shafted mallets, are better for SBST.

[PymnImmen]

while mallets, especially center-shafted mallets, are better for SBST.

I found the center shafted helped a lot with my SBST stroke.

[evennyNiz]

Straight back and straight through for me. My mallet putter is center-shafted, which I think makes SBST easier to accomplish as opposed to heel-shafted putters.

[Sydneyfonzi]

slight arc

[gusunsuth]

I read the arc is good for lagging but takes lots of practice to master.

The arc is good, period. There's really nothing to master about it, it's the natural movement of the putter. Remember, you're standing inside the line along which you're putting. You have to make a concerted effort to bring the putter back straight along that line and then straight through to the hole. Even if you look at it with no putter, if you just stand, bend forward from the waist as you would in a putting stroke, put your hands together and rock your shoulders slowly back and forth, if you do nothing to manipulate your hands, they will move on an arc around your body.

[gusunsuth]

I think this is the very reason I have switched to the SeeMore putter. It gets the ball in the ball in the hole. The red dot may be gimmicky, but it seems to work better for me than anything else. And I am not alone, the putter shoot out, they won performance. The putter sampling that we posted here in the forum had a tester pick that one too.

But in the end, it is finding a putter that matches your stroke and works for you.

That's pretty cool, the SeeMore. I've heard of it but I never checked it out. The only thing that would concern me about that is that in actual use, you might be tempted to look at the little red thingy, i.e. watch the putter head going back and forth instead of watching the ball. Have you noticed any of that? But as a pure practice tool that seems like it would be phenomenal.

[gusunsuth]

Since switching to SeeMore Putter I have been using the arc method unless the putt is 4 ft or less and then it is pretty much SBST.

Well really if you think about it, because the length of the stroke for such a short putt, you wouldn't necessarily see an "arc" even if there were one. The further back or forth in the stroke the putter head goes, the more it arcs.

[vicgirl]

Check out our reviews of the Seemore as well as how they fared in our Huge Putter Shoot out with the likes of just about everybrand of putter made.

[gusunsuth]

It seems the arc would require massive practice to be square at impact consistently. anyway...I'm on a mission to learn how to get it down! Ha!

If you want the best piece of advice I can give you, buy a book called "The Art of Putting," by Stan Utley (and don't let the fact that he's worked with Sergio on his putting deter you ). It's $15 on Amazon, and it's the best $15 you'll ever spend, particularly if you're having difficulty putting. I was always a decent putter, but I didn't have a very good grip. Really, you'd be surprised how few people know what a good putting grip is. Once this book helped me square that away, my putting has been phenomenal.