Is there a guideline, formula out there somewhere regarding fitting belly putters to a golfer. I have a guy who wants to try one and currently I don't have one made-up. Any help, assistance, or referral in this area is greatly appreciated
Take any length putter and remove the grip, take a section of steel shaft and slide it into the putter shaft, have golfer set up in the normal way with eyes directly over the ball, slide the shaft extension out until it touches the golfer's belly (at the navel since this spot is findable again) mark the extension so you know how long the extension should be made. Form the extension from a piece of broken steel shaft, epoxy extension in. When you install the lower round grip it will cover the joint. This grip is made by sharpening the end of a steel shaft section and forcing it thru the butt of a regular grip, install by putting on a long piece of grip tape and sliding the lower grip down to your mark, install a shorter grip section on the butt (there must be 2" between the grips to be legal). That's it, easy job. We get $25 to do this to a customers putter including bending a corrected lie angle.
If you are building a NEW putter use a TT lite XL shaft and you won't need to make an extension. These putters don't exceed 45 inches in finished length.
Arnie
