Ten Top Putting Tips - Pga Golf Tips for Putting

Ten Golf Tips, Putting Stance, Putting Stroke and Better Putting

© John Hoskison

Jun 10, 2009

Putting well can save a golfer many shots during a round of golf. Learn to putt better by incorporating these top ten putting tips into your putting golf game.

Tips for the Putting Stance

• Get your eyes directly over the ball. This is just as important as a snooker or pool player looking down the cue. Take up your stance, hold a ball next to your eyes and drop it. If your eyes are directly over the ball it should hit the ball you are going to putt.

• Have a firm base. Make sure your legs are wide enough to make sure your lower body stabilises the body when you make a stroke. If the wind is blowing make the stance even wider.

• Make sure your arms are lined up correctly. Whatever putting grip you use, a line across your arms should aim directly at the hole. If someone stood behind you and put a golf shaft against your arms, it should point at the hole. How accurately this line points will influence the quality of your putting back stroke.

Tips for the Putting Stroke

• Number one for better putting is to make sure you have the right putter for your stroke. If you are not sure read this article on putters. If you have a blade putter make sure the stroke moves inside on the backswing and inside on the follow through. With a face balanced putter the stroke should be straight back and through with the face looking at the hole.

• Keep the wrists out of the stroke. Shoulders, arms and hands move together as a unit in a good putting stroke.

• Keep your head still. Just as in pool or snooker you must keep the head still during the stroke. Listen for the ball to go into the hole, don’t look up to watch it.

• Make sure the putter goes back and through the same distance. Keep the putting stroke even both sides for smooth acceleration and to stop quitting on putts.

• Keep the rhythm of your stroke like a metronome. Count ‘one-two’ to yourself to keep the stroke smooth. Rhythm in a putting stroke is just as important as rhythm in a full swing.

• Make sure you get the golf ball up to the hole. All putts from inside twenty feet should end up past the hole. Make sure you read the green to end up eighteen inches past and not lamely to lag into the hole at dead weight.

• To read a green correctly you must look at the hole from both sides. If you really want to putt well from distance you must take time and look from the other side of the hole. The break often looks different from behind the hole.

See also: Top Ten Golf Swing Tips PGA Golf Tips

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