Thursday night Golf Central showed some footage of the new putting technique Michelle Wie's trying over at the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters. I tried to find a photo of it but, alas, no luck. However, I can show you basically what it looks like.
This, my friends, is Leo Diegel, a two-time major champion from the 1920s. And this unusual putting style became known as "Diegeling." This photo is from 1924 and, yes, it's an anchored stroke.
Michelle is the usage of some thing very comparable, even though she has her elbows near her aspect rather than mentioned. I don't know if she's anchoring the putter or not; it wasn't clean from the pictures I saw. Charlie Rymer questioned whether she ought to use the fashion for terribly lengthy without inflicting physical problems.
"Diegeling" is one of the greater funny putting patterns that has been used over the centuries... However it's now not completely without advantage. Ignoring the anchoring and "wings" for a moment, the concept isn't too far from what Dave Pelz teaches. By leaning over so much that your spine is almost parallel to the ground, it places you in a role in which the putter can swing like a pendulum -- or at the least as close as a human body is possibly to get. Two-time most important winner Hubert Green is any other pro who was pretty a success using a putting style like this.
In fact, you may observe some similarities among "Diegeling" and the setting stroke of an early Jack Nicklaus. I have to point out that this become not most effective powerful, however apparently served him nicely for pretty a number of years:
So while every body is giggling at Michelle Wie -- and it's already started out, judging by means of the GC telecast -- "Bear" in thoughts that this isn't always any such weird setting idea in spite of everything.
The Leo Diegel photo came from this website, and the Nicklaus image came from this site.
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