Explained: Why loft on a putter helps you roll the ball better

PGA Professional Ged Walters explains why your putter, your least lofted club, has loft on it. Some golfers are still surprised that your putter has three or four degrees of loft on it and they generally think that this seems a lot. The simple answer is that putters have loft because the ball sits in a hole. As much as the putting green is lovely and manicured and nice and tight, gravity is pulling on that golf ball so it creates an indentation. So it’s actually sitting in a depression and the loft on the putter gets the ball out of the depression and...