Many pro golfers insist that putting is the most important part of your golf game. How you practice can also affect your game. Finding a pro and taking a lesson can go a long way to improving your stroke. Here are some interesting tips for beginners or even pros. Since putting skills account for 50% of your game, so, let’s focus on putting.
Putting Lessons
First practice putting exercises by making use of putting drills in order to improve your golfing skills. Putting drills will help you focus you on routines that become second nature and ingrained as a skill set.
‘Drive for show putt for dough’ as the popular adage implies. The prime focus when you have your line figured out and to keep your head still when you putt. When standing over your putt with your eye on the ball and visualize the path to the hole. Visualize – think distance not speed.
Some pros even teach putting with your eyes closed to develop feel and consistency. A simple drill of hitting a number of 10-foot putts with your eyes closed. This will help focus on the feel and off the mechanics of the stroke.
Concentrate on the spot where the ball was before impact. Don’t lif your head to see where the ball is going. When you’re not looking and pulling your body up you’ll make more putts. After you hear the ball rattle around in the cup, then you can lift your head.
Practice Your Aproach Address
A minor yet important part of golfing instruction is your stance. Spend a little time during your practice session making sure you have a solid putting stance. Don’t just go out there and start putting, but take time to positions yourself.
Maintain a straight back allowing your hands to swing under your shoulders is the simplest of positions to employ.
Note the position of your hands and if your hands are outside your shoulders (that is, farther away from your body), it will take on a different stance resulting in an inside-square-inside stroke. Your stance should normally be the narrowest of any shot that you play usually no wider than your hips.
Get A Grip
Always check your grip. A consistent grip is important. Like the address position, this is an important part of putting that often gets neglected and cause inconsistent results.
Your club works similar to a pendulum motion. Your arms should be relaxed and your grip light. Your stroke should be a one-piece smooth action. When you move your arms backwards, the triangle created by your shoulders and the club work like a pendulum keeping your wrists stiff. The motion begins by dropping yor left shoulder.
Make sure your closing fingers of your grip don’t change the angle of the club face. Experiment if you must by trying a lighter version of your normal grip.
Go With The Short Putts
How to break 80. Your putting practice routine should focus more on short shots than on long ones since percentage wise, that can affect your score the greatest. Master the short putts and apply those control skills to the long putts.
Carpet Putting
Sam Snead said, “I figure practice puts brains in your muscles,” and so by practicing your putting gives you a consistent and repeatable putting stroke. – a world record of 82 PGA tournaments was won by Sam Snead and about 70 others around the globe.
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