Improve Your Putting

Now that summer is upon us, and the greens are coming into better condition, or if you are a golfer who regularly plays different courses, it is worth spending a little time on the practice putting green working on feel and distance control. The following drill is a fantastic way to help judge the speed of the greens.

Take three balls onto the practice green.

Pick out a target, somewhere between the 15’ to 20’ target range.  (This doesn’t have to be a hole, simply stick a tee peg into the green to put to).

Make a putt to the target without looking to see where the ball has finished. 

The objective of the drill is to guess whether the ball has finished short, long, left or right of your target.

Once you have made your guess, take a look to see if you were correct.

Use what you see from the result to gain feedback, and then repeat the drill with each of the other two balls, remembering each time not to look at the result until you have made your guess.

Aim for the ball to finish 8” to 12” past the target.

Spend 5 minutes or so on this drill before you go out on the course, and you will be surprised at how quickly your feel will improve.

You will soon find yourself hitting it closer when faced with long putts, eliminating those card wrecking three putts.

EDIT:

A good tip indeed. However, the link to your site has been edited out as it is deemed as Spam.

Paul