How to bend
A Putter Lie Angle
How to Bend loft and Lie on a Putter 2019
Sharing buttons:
[Music]
well we better make some putts better
than that I mean come on
so where'd you just see a whole bunch of
missed putts for a whole bunch of
different reasons however you know other
than length and grip and the way that
you look at it some of the simplest
corrections can be made with where the
loft rely adjustment you just saw where
I did a review on the golf mechanic
evolution to putter bender
now it's an updated version what I
already had with the digital display
which you know allows for a little more
precision so what we talked about is
well how do we how do you make bends
right how do you make those bends so
that that that sole you know typically
want the sole flatten down on the ground
you don't want it too much in the area
to want to too much toe down you want
the right amount of loft based on how
you putt right based on how you putt and
based on the conditions of your putting
in all right so if you are putting in a
an area that is very hairy then you
might want a little more loft so you can
get the ball up and on or if you're very
very manicured you might wanna get the
ball rolling as fast and quickly as you
want to and you would lower the loft
that's what we're looking at so how do
you do that therein lies the trick how
do you make those bends well using the
bending bar that we talked about earlier
in the review there's the large block
and there's the small block has the non
marring internals that are replaceable
as you can see they've got the little
screw head in there all right so that
you don't Mar the finish right a lot of
these very expensive putters come with a
different finish on them they will be
you know darker in color that could be a
whole different paint job for that
matter then the other side is is that
you have this shafts that go into the
putter now we need to talk about that
for just a moment when you have there
you know there are several different
kinds of ways that it that the shaft
actually installs into a putter when you
have a a plumbers neck when you have a
plumbers neck very much like that right
the old anser style
everybody's got tribute to the answer
hence plumbers neck that normally is an
insert that goes inside the hosel that's
a standard issue insertion much like any
other stick and glue job right so that
that would be one sir
be one way of doing it another way is
what they would call an over the hosel
kind of setup and this over the hosel is
that you know there's nothing for the
shaft ends right there and that's where
the putter begins which means that
there's a bit of more putter sticking up
into this area and that shaft goes over
the putter or over the hosel alright
because that would technically be the
hosel right this whole thing so it goes
over that now in a lot of cases and some
other manufacturers that's called a
flare and a flare what means is it gets
down to here and it gets bigger in order
to look good in the style of the putter
that's there okay but it can happen on a
it can happen on a putter like this
where there's a bigger neck or it can
happen on a putter where there's no neck
all right you can tell that this one
because it's got this little ferrule
that acts as a well hex has a medium
between the two so it makes it look a
little bit cleaner that's the whole idea
so what you have is there's a a piece of
this putter head that sticks up about
that far over the hosel right those are
super easy to bend however there are
kinds where the putter the shaft goes
straight into the putter head they go
straight into the putter head now
depending on the type of shaft that you
get right this one just happens to be
what they used to call a ski pole and a
ski pole was for the taller putters and
they were very brutish I mean these
things were these things were very very
stout and he just went from insertion to
boom and it was just really big those
things are massively hard to bend and
when they're really really stiff really
really hard to bend you really run the
risk of denting them or even breaking
them for that matter now the other ones
that go straight in there that are just
regular yeah those things are a little
bit easier to bend but the same issues
still apply right you could dent them so
you got a real it because you're bending
shaft you're not bending putter you got
to be really really careful and when you
see models that are like that you're not
going to get you know oh a pin you bend
at four degrees or anything well no
right not without doing some serious you
know either damage or it's going to come
out looking super ugly and you don't
want either one
so you might get a degree or two all
right a degree or two out of that and
that's about as far as you want to go
otherwise you've room you run the risk
of ruining the structural integrity all
right we don't want to do that because
well you're replacing a shaft and we
don't want to do that either so you're
gonna be careful that double Bend
putters same way right they can go into
the thing like that and it's already
been bent so there's already been stress
put on it and you just you can bend and
you're always been as close to the
putter as you possibly can you don't
bend above the double bend that doesn't
buy anybody anything because now you can
turn the double bend right and you have
run the risk of and it's really soft in
that neck of the woods so you could
really really really damage the shaft
okay so how do you how do you really
apply the pressure to that well that's
what we're going to talk about now okay
as you see we're going to put in a
left-handed the left-handed putter and
Odyssey one and what I'm going to do is
I'm going to take off the block first
and then that way what we can use is the
the long arm I really like the long arm
better all right and then what will
happen here is you run the run the arm
up into it and then what it does is it
rests into the cab back of the cavity of
the putter and it puts it up against the
face block and that's what we want is up
against the face block then we'll run
down our hold down unit the little with
the read longer arms I like the the
knurled knob and then you're set then
what we'll do is we'll put the gauge on
it because I've already got the gauge
turned on and we clamp that in one of
the very nice pieces of this particular
putter and then we'll apply the bending
on it now based on what we've seen you
know you got to make sure that size is
correct or that size is correct and you
want as close as you can so that it
doesn't slide in this particular
instance this is the one that's better
now if you want to flatten it you pull
it towards you if you want to upright it
it goes away from you you want to use
both
right very rarely do you get away with
that unless you have to study it and
you're really pushing a lot on it but
these are putters you shouldn't have to
do that you get up in here and you make
this you make this turn you make this
bend now what you're going to do is
you're going to be able to see it on
here on the on the display when it what
you'll have is some muscle memory
there are metal memory and when you go
up you all I've been all the way up and
you'll come back and look almost the
same you're like well what's happening
well one of two things are happening one
you don't have it in the jig tight
enough and it's been moving with you the
putter moves with you and it does happen
or it's very it's a very hard steel and
it feels like you're moving it and then
it's coming back you're gonna actually
you know you can feel the metal giving
when you've done this for a while now
the other part is if you want to make
more loft you will pull down it makes
more loft and if you push away it makes
less loft same concepts right use both
hands feel it measure it feel it measure
it feel it measure that's what you do
now let's say you've got let's say
you've got the other one where the shaft
goes into the putter we'll take this guy
out first and this is my Peretti one of
my first putters and we get it just so
happens I can get it into the back I
could have used the other model the the
block but I as I've said before I prefer
that and it's a much more solid it's a
much more solid hold down we get to hold
down on top of it now could I use the
could I use the silver one and use the
smaller one well I could but it's kind
of sloppy and I want to move upward on
so what I and when you do stuff that's
on shafts you want to grab as much as
you can if you grab little you really
run the risk of Benia just imagine you
know bending a piece of wire right it
makes it it's an easier when you're out
here on the edges it bends easier this
way you get in here it tends to crinkle
so what do we use these are what would
be the typical bending bars that you
would receive with a machine this one's
for large gap
maybe like the dual the dual bends maybe
or a large you know where the the length
of the bends or the length of the neck
is a little longer or what I tend to use
the most of is this one where it's very
close now you go ahead Jim that's not
much bigger than the other one well it's
as big as the big block and it's a
little bit easier to manipulate so for
this one for going up I would be in here
and I would pull up like that and you
see how much I'm being able to move this
and that's not doing a thing to it and
I'm really moving this up here and I'm
in it'll go right back to where it was
but this is what I would use right this
one you could use in that same fashion
but you see you get a little bit more
and you see how much more easier it is
to move but again you know you got to
watch where it's actually applying the
force keep an eye on that because it's
going to be really easy to dent that if
I can't harp that one enough so you have
plumbers necks you got over the holes
and you've got into the into the putter
heads and the basic movements is to feel
right to feel the metal or the shaft
giving you should be fine for there and
then you got to make more putts so
hopefully I'm helping you with this one
and if you do put some show notes down
and put into comments in the show notes
have you ever had your putter bent
before has it helped hey do you do it on
your own you need any advice on what's
going on just put it down there and let
me know and as always let's see your
scores go low
