Some of the best putters in the world possess what is called a forward hand press with one of the best examples being Phil Mickelson. The forward hand press is said to create a fluid, rhythmic stroke, but more importantly to keep the hands moving through the stroke. It becomes harder for the wrists to break down and have the wrists cup or flip forward causing excessive loft at impact and poor impact. The Hindsight putter incorporates a 3 degree forward press or just enough to position the hands even with the leading edge of the face.

In this diagram, take a look at the center figure. The red dotted line represents the line from the center of your eyes straight down to between the ball and the face when you are at address.

Normally golfers will set up neutral with the axis of the shaft along this same line. But in the case of a forward hand press, the hands are pressed forward as if the shaft is leaning forward. Rather than relying on the golfer to recreate the same amount of forward hand press each and every time, we built in the forward press so you can use the flat portion of the sole to guide you as you normally do. We will see why shortly.

One of the downsides of a forward press is that it de-lofts the clubhead. However, it is vital that some loft exists to extract the ball out of the depression it sits in order to get the ball rolling. To show why, there are three diagrams showing the possible situations that can occur at impact. The first is the level impact. As most putters have 3º of loft as an average, the ball does not start rolling forward immediately.

The loft will launch the ball up in the air and out of the depression on the green with a little back spin, land, it might hop just slightly before it hits the ground again and then the ball proceeds to start rolling forward.

The worst case is when the golfer adds loft at impact such as if the putter gets ahead of the hands. The ball takes much longer to start the true roll forward.

In the last scenario, this shows why certain golfers prefer to press the hands forward in order to minimize loft at impact so the ball starts rolling forward much sooner.

Another feature of the Hindsight putter is the roll face technology. This is what helps

normalizes the effective loft at impact. Not everyone will have the ball in the exact same location relative to their stance from one putt to the next. For instance, if the ball is positions slightly back in your stance, you will strike the ball in a slightly de-lofted state and typically higher on the clubface.

Conversely, if the ball is slightly forward in the stance, the putter will be on the upswing with greater loft and a propensity to hit low on the face. By normalizing the loft with a vertical face radius, this maintains the proper amount of loft to extract the ball from any indentation and to get the ball rolling as quickly as possible for better distance control. The roll face also has horizontal grooves to better ensure positive roll.

One of the problems with a forward hand press for most golfers is making sure the face is square at alignment rather than slightly open. There are a number of subtle alignment features built into the Hindsight putter to ensure the putter is square to the golfer’s intended target line. Plus, the shaft is attached to the body to make it a center-shafted, face balanced putter.

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