To help protect yourself against any unwanted hinging in the left wrist, hold the putter so that the shaft runs high across the palm of your left hand, resting against the fleshy pad below the thumb. Then close your hand, draping your left index finger over the fingers of your right hand. Doing this forms what's known as the 'reverse-overlap' grip; the left hand is now effectively locked in place on the club.

Now let's put your grip to the test. Remember, in a solid pendulum stroke, the shoulders control the motion from start to finish while the hands remain passive. Try this drill: address a straight three-foot putt, and without a backswing, 'brush' the ball towards the hole. Make the follow-through by 'pulling' with your left arm and left shoulder and 'pushing' with your right arm and right shoulder. Focus on keeping your left hand firm as you accelerate the putter past your left foot, and check to see that the putter-face is looking directly at the hole on the finish. Repeating this drill regularly will give you the correct feel, eliminates the 'wristiness' in your stroke, and should get those putts dropping.