How to Improve Putting, Golf Putting Stroke Tips
Putting Drills, Hole More Golf Putts, Improve Putting Golf Stroke
Jun 20, 2009
How to improve your putting stroke to save shots on the green. Stop three putting and hole more short putts with good putting. Putting exercises for stroke aim and touch.
To improve at putting requires various skills to be practiced. To avoid three putting, touch and feel are needed to be able to roll the ball up close to the hole. To hole more short putts, a golfer must be able to set up correctly and return the putter to the ball with a square blade. Use these tips to help improve putting stroke and achieve better touch.
Drill for Set Up and Putting Stroke
- To hole more putts and improve putting from short range a golfer must learn to set up with the putter pointing at the target. Surprisingly few club golfers find this easy, and unfortunately being reasonably accurate is not good enough if you want to hole more putts.
- Find a piece of string about ten feet long. Take eight books, separate them into two piles and under the top book of each pile slip the ends of the string. Stretch the string until it is taught and is about three inches off the floor.
- The idea is to put a ball down under the string, line up the putter making sure the line on the putter is lined up accurately with the string. With a target, like a glass, near the far pile of books you can guarantee you are lined up correctly.
- If you practice with this method, very soon your eye will become accustomed to the new aim. At first it might seem as though you are lined up incorrectly but trust it and practice until it feels more natural.
- Being lined up correctly will automatically help you make a better putting stroke. Good alignment is essential for being able to hole more short range putts
- Drill to Imrove Touch Putting
- This exercise is about practicing touch under pressure. Take three balls and stand about fifteen feet from a wall in your house. Hit the first putt as close to the wall as possible but without it actually hitting the wall. Then try to hit the next ball closer and finally the third ball closer still but without any quite reaching the wall.
- This might seem an incredibly simple and mundane exercise but it develops touch, and if you decide to carry on until you successfully complete the exercise, it puts you under pressure. If the first two lie close to the target the last one has to be just right.
- These two exercises, for correct alignment and touch, will improve your putting and will enable you to save shots on the green.
See also: What is an Over the Top Golf Swing or How to Teach Golf to a Beginner
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