Adam Schenk’s win at the 2025 Bermuda Championship was shocking in itself.
He was on the verge of losing his fully exempt status for 2026, then won his first PGA Tour event in his 243rd attempt to earn a tour card for the next two seasons.
But what was truly shocking was the change he made to his game in order to claim the victory. Midway through the tournament, Schenk decided to take his putts left-handed.
He caught fire on the greens and won the event. And ahead of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, Schenk walked Dan Rapaport through his thought process.
Adam Schenk explains decision to putt one-handed
Rapaport was walking the range prior to the Farmers Insurance Open and asked Schenk about his decision to putt one-handed. The American gave a thoughtful response.
Schenk said, “Usually just right-to-left putts. I don’t pull it. Hardly ever. My tendency is my left hand kind of drags it left and hits it off the toe.
“I release it just as well, but it’s released more down the line and not dragging it left with the left hand.
“I did it at Wyndham for the first time on Friday for a little bit. First one made an 18-footer on 12. I didn’t do it again until Bermuda, we missed a lot of putts. I don’t know what hole it was, six or seven, I missed like another five footer right to left.
“I was like, that’s it, switch to one hand. Made my first one or two. Made another one, I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m just going to putt one-handed this week, at least on right-to-left putts.”
It’s one thing to recognize that this change will help, and it’s another to put yourself out there and commit to it. Schenk should be commended for being brave enough to try, and he was rewarded with his first PGA Tour victory.
Has Adam Schenk’s one-handed putting worked?
Schenk’s right-to-left miss with his putts has really prevented him from taking his game to the next level, and experimenting with ways to fix it allowed him to win on the PGA Tour. But has it permanently fixed his putting?
In short, no. It might have worked in Bermuda, but 2025 was the only season in Schenk’s career that he lost strokes to the field on the greens, and 2026 isn’t off to a hot start.
He lost a massive 1.97 strokes to the field with putting in his season opener at the Sony Open in Hawaii, and while his second start saw an improvement from that dreadful number, Schenk still lost 0.64 at the American Express.
It seems that even with this putting hack, Schenk is still far from fixing his putting woes.
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