Balancing Act

Feel the Pressure
A simple and easy way to test your balance is to get hold of some pipe insulation or round foam tubing.
Place it on the ground and stand with it placed under the arches of your feet. As you stand tall sense an even pressure between heels and toes. Now bend forward and take your normal posture and set up for a putt. Do you roll forward on the tubing or indeed roll back? If you roll forward you have a tendancy to get too much into the toes at set up, which can often lead to rocking back into your heels during the stroke as your body searches to find an equilibrium.
Take your stance again and as you bend into your posture and set up position try and maintain and even balance between heels and toes so the pressure is through the arches of the feet. Now you are balanced at set up. Hit some putts from this set up position and sense how stable your lower body is during the stroke and as a result how much more centred your strikes are.