Joseph A.
Thank you. Glad you like.

Bruce R.
If your left hand is low and right hand is on top, and you are an arc putter, I would try to keep your forearms close to your body to allow you to make an arc. I hope that makes sense. Keeping your body as a point of reference.

Paul D
The club will move through wet sand slower, so the ball won’t go as far. You will need to swing through it with more speed. Good luck!

Christopher W M

On a longer putt swing the putter back wider. Never hit the ball harder.

Barry S.

If you are a straight back and through putter, it is not as important to have your arms as close as you set up. You can stand a little farther from the ball if it is more comfortable as well.

I didn’t know I was doing it until…I read Dave Pelz’s “Putting Like the Pros” (I think that’s it). Anyway, I’ve tested out his following assertion, and it’s clearly applicable to me, my arms, etc.
Medium stance, stoop as far as to find your eyeline, and your putter head/distance to ball are determined by where your arms hang straight down due to only gravity. The straight-back-n-thru motion is greatly aided. Hands further away produces a standard in-out-in arc, and hands close produce a (barely) out-in-out, and kind of oddball convex (your overhead perspective) or reverse arc path. That one is muted by comparison, but absolutely happens w/ hands too close to body.
Pelz’s books are old, and don’t mention mallet putters w/ long sight-lines as better-suited to straight-thru strokes, but that too tracks w/ my personal experience. Does any of that resonate, or am I just suffering from my own confirmation bias?

Brian R
Dave Pelz is a close friend and has caddied for my husband Allen on the PGA TOUR many times. He is a very smart man as is Allen and clearly, in your description above, you are as well.

People can choose how they want to putt as well as how far they want to be from the ball. They need to be sure they are aligned properly to the hole and can only do that with a laser. This will ensure their eyes are triangulated correctly so they are set up to the hole, and that is not always necessarily right over the ball. It might be inside or outside their eyeline.

Let me know if you have more questions. I don’t want to confuse you. Just want you to know there are other factors.

John L.
Take some swings hitting a golf tee without a ball trying to clip the tee out of the ground. Relax your arms and wrists being sure you really swing the club head through the ball, not "AT" it. If you make a swoosh and let it rip, the club should pull you through the ball and make you follow through. Let me know if it works.

John R.
You are welcome!