Most amateurs attempt to stroke the putter with a straight-back, straight-through motion. A more natural arcing stroke is used by most pros. For years, golfers have used the aid of a practice putting arc to learn the perfect natural stroke.
Clay Judice first entered the putter scene in the mid 1970’s, designing and marketing the Off-Set putter. It was used by several pros on the PGA tour. Through the years he has had several innovative putter designs put into play. In the 1980’s, he created the Strokee putting aid, which was endorsed by Raymond Floyd. In 2010 he created the Belly Putt, which converted a regular putter into a belly putter. And soon thereafter, the USGA outlawed “anchored putting.”
In 2019, Clay was working on a new mallet putter design when he decided to put a “putting arc” on the top of the putter to experiment with. The arc displayed the correct path to be taken, but as soon as the stroke was begun, the putting arc moved along with the putter. The true nature of the arc became obvious. It was apparent that this moving arc now became a dynamic section of a much larger arc. What this meant, was that if the orientation of the dynamic sections of the arc were maintained along the curvature of the full arc, a perfect stroke could be produced. At the same time, the putter face necessarily remained square to the curved arc. In other words, maintaining the integrity of the arc guaranteed that the putter face would also remain square to the arc. So, it became more than just the age-old practice putting arc. It became a putter face alignment tool as well. The realization that the arc not only displayed the path to be taken, but also controlled the orientation of the putter throughout the stroke, was quite a discovery to the engineer within the designer.
It took several iterations of the optics to make the Dynamic Arc both easy to see and non-intrusive in the alignment of the putter. Finally, to Clay’s satisfaction, the ARC-210 was completed. It has a 210-inch radius arc set alongside the 13-ball alignment design, etched onto the head of a very stable, adjustable weight, high MOI mallet putter. The proprietary face groove design delivers a soft absorbing feel to the machine milled aluminum body.
Practice with DYNAMIC ARC makes perfect, as every stroke, guided by that arc, produces a consistent result. And every stroke reinforces the previous one. A “Pro-like” stroke is just a matter of following the DYNAMIC ARC.
