Putting Game Consistency And Success – Part 1

Welcome to this series that will outline the principles needed for putting game consistency and success. Now before we begin this putting improvement series I need to make one thing clear…

Putting is a separate game within the game of golf, because no other shot in golf has the same objective as a putt has, which is to….

Roll the ball along the best line
with the best speed, so the ball
rolls gently into the hole.

And if you want to become the best putter you can then you SHOULDN’T use a throttled down driver swing. Equally you won’t want to use your putting technique to drive with.

You see, to become a great putter you need a different technique than you do to become a great driver of the ball (or any other part of golf for that matter). And that’s a great thing because it means you don’t need any special athletic ability to become a great putter.

You simply need to know what to do to improve and then do it.

Now knowing what you need to do to become a great putter is not easy. Because there’s a million and one things you could focus on to improve, but a lot of them will simply waste your time or even make you worse!

And here’s a very real, personal example of this.

When I was about 15 years of age I was having some problems with my putting. So I went to my local pro and asked him what I could do to putt better.

He told me that all good putters put a good end-over-end roll on the ball. And if I wanted to be a good putter I must do the same thing. So of course I then asked him how do you do that, i.e. put an end-over-end roll on the ball.

He then told me about Bobby Locke and how he was a great putter and he used to hook all his putts.

My local pro told me that by hooking your putts the ball rolls better. And to do this, the local pro simply told me to hook my putts by taking the putter on an in-to-out path so the ball would have hook spin on it.

So I tried doing this, but guess what?….it didn’t improve my putting one bit.

In fact, I got worse!

Do you know why?

It’s simply because I was focusing on something I didn’t need to. I had the wrong “what”.

And I was focusing on something that was completely wasting my time and taking me further away from the goal I wanted, i.e. to putt better.

Important Note: If you’re not sure who Bobby Locke is this is what Gary Player is quoted as saying about him:

“One six-foot putt, for my life? I’ll take Bobby Locke. I’ve seen them all, and there was never a putter like him. In the 100 or so competitive rounds I played with him, I saw him three-putt just once. … You had to see it to believe it.”

Now here’s the reason why I was completely wasting my time.

It’s been scientifically proven that within about the first 20 percent of the roll of a golf ball, the friction from the green removes all side spin, top spin or back spin. In other words, no matter what you do to start a ball rolling on a green, in the end it will be rolling end over end.

The bottom line was that I was wasting my time trying to hook my putts!

Important Note: Do NOT try and put any spin on the ball when you’re stroking your putts. You’re wasting your time on something that does not matter!

Hopefully that true story has proven to you how crucial it is for you find out “what” you need to do to improve your putting game.

And that’s why I put this putting improvement series together.

To explain exactly what you need to do to improve your putting. Because I don’t want you to waste anymore time on things which won’t help you to improve, like I’ve done. So this putting improvement series will give you a clear focus on the areas you need to work on to improve. It will tell you what the things are that matter.

This putting consistency and success series will be your roadmap to putting success.

It will save you a lot of time and effort too.

Because instead of trying one thing after another in a desperate attempt to improve your putting you’ll know exactly what you need to focus on to improve. Then once you know what you need to focus on then you need to have a proven step-by-step practice plan that outlines exactly what you need to do to improve. Then it’s simply up to you to put into action the steps in the plan.

It’s only through having an intelligent practice plan and then action will you really make a noticeable difference to your putting.

I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that trying one thing after another without any real plan will NOT lead you to improvement. You’ll be wasting your valuable time doing that.

Important Note: A planned, structured, step-by-step approach to improving your putting will always get better, more consistent results than any other approach.

Reading this series for putting game success is the start of you becoming the great putter you’ve always wanted to become. So in my next post we’ll make a start by looking at perhaps the most important element needed to be a great putter.

Tags: putting, success