If you’re lacking putting touch here’s a good putting drill to help you improve it.
Simply go out to your local practice putting green and place tees in the green at 10 feet, 15 feet, 20 feet, 25 feet and 30 feet. Now setup to a ball and putt to the first tee. The objective when doing this putting drill is to simply leave the ball as close as possible to the tee you’re aiming at. Once you’ve got the pace of this first putt then move to the second tee and keep putting until you get consistently close to that tee.
Keep doing this putting drill over and over again and then once you’ve improved your touch, practice putting to a different tee for each putt. Then once you’ve got that nailed, then practice this same exercise with your eyes closed and after you’ve struck the putt keep your eyes closed until the ball has stopped moving. And then simply guess as to where the ball as ended up and see if you were right.
Doing this putting drill will take some time, but if you put in the effort you’ll receive some great results in the form of having less putts. And the less putts you have the more fun you’ll have, so the effort you put in with this putting drill will be worth it.
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Reading the green is the most important step! The pace changes with time, weather, mowing of green, etc. The feel and mental make up is more important!