Your left hand is more leading than your right hand. It is the hand you should always place on your putter first.
Golf Club Left Handed Sets
If you putt right-handed, your right hand will be your dominant hand. It will also be the hand that can cause you the most problems in your stroke.
Problems arise when you start to use your right hand to guide or power your putting stroke. Your right hand should help and preserve your left hand - it should never control it.
Much of the reason for your right hand wanting to dominate your stroke goes back to how you place your hands on your putter shaft. With your right hand below your left it is in a stronger or more dominant position than when you putt left-hand low.
Some golfers putt with a left-hand low grip to neutralise the influence of their dominant right hand in their stroke - others use a claw grip to prevent it end down their stroke to the inside straight through impact.
Many years ago Harvey Penick realised the point of the left hand in putting. He wrote these words in his 'Little Red Book'.
"You should make it a habit to carry your putter in your left hand. Or in both hands, if you wish. But never carry it in your right hand alone.
Your left hand and arm are an postponement of the putter shaft. That is the feeling you want to have. I see pros on tour place the putter behind the ball with their right hand.
Then when they put their left hand on the club, they automatically convert their aim. Put your putter behind the ball with your left hand, or with both hands".
Dave Stockton describing the part of his pre-putt disposition when he steps into the ball states "Keep your eyes not on the ball, but on the line and the hole. Your left hand is on the cope in its basic grip position".
Geoff Mangum of the PuttingZone explains the point of your left hand by relating its use to how your brain functions in a cross-over manner.
If you putt right-handed, then on any given putt the only visual information that categorically matters comes from your left side - the area between your ball and the hole. This information is fed to the right side of your brain, and it is this side of your brain that controls your left hand.
Put simply, "the back of the left hand knows how to point at the target and how to move at the target much best than the palm of the right hand".
Changing a habit is never easy. However, changing to a uncomplicated habit that will help your putting makes good sense.
Your Left Hand - Why You Should Set it on the Putter First
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