Putter Length Chart

How to find your putter length

Manufacturers have already answered “what is standard”, and the answer is narrower than the internet suggests: of the 61 current models with published stock lengths, 43 are sold in 33 inches, 61 are sold in 34 inches and 60 are sold in 35 inches. Every one of them is sold in 34 inches. Your length is almost certainly one of those numbers. The question is which one.

What a fitter actually measures

1. Take your normal putting posture over a ball, with your eyes over the ball or just inside it.
2. Let your arms hang from the shoulders without reaching, and note where your hands naturally come together.
3. The right length puts the grip into your hands in that posture — you should not have to stand taller to reach it or crouch further to get down to it.
4. The number a fitter writes down is your wrist-to-floor measurement taken in that posture, not your height. It varies independently of height, because arm length and how much you bend over the ball vary from golfer to golfer.

Stymie does not publish an inch-by-inch mapping from wrist-to-floor to putter length, for the same reason it publishes no height chart: no manufacturer publishes one either, so there is nothing to cite and any figure would be invented.

What about the height charts?

Height charts are a starting point, not a fitting. Two golfers of identical height can need putters an inch apart, because arm length and how much you bend over the ball differ — which is why the height charts published around the web disagree with each other at the margins. Stymie doesn't publish one. If you want a single starting point: 34 inches is the length every current model in this chart is offered in, and it is the middle of the stock range for a reason. Go shorter if you crouch, longer if you stand tall, and treat anything beyond that as a fitter's question.

Is there a legal limit on putter length?

Barely. Under the Equipment Rules, Part 2 (Conformance of Clubs), a club must be at least 18 inches long, and the 48-inch maximum that applies to every other club explicitly does not apply to putters. So there is a minimum and, for putters, effectively no maximum. What the Rules restrict instead is anchoring the club against your body during the stroke, which is a rule about how a long putter is used rather than how long it may be.