Many pro golfers insist that putting is the most important part of your golf game. It’s not how much you practice but how your practice that affects your game. Finding a pro and taking a lesson can go a long way to improving your stroke. Here are some tips for beginners or even pros. Good putting contributes about 50% to your overall score, so, let’s focus on putting.

Putting Lessons
First practice putting exercises by incorporating putting drills to improve

your putting confidence. Putting drills will help you focus you on routines   that eventually becomes ingrained into your brain.

‘Drive for show putt for dough’ as the popular adage implies. The main focus is to see the line you want the golf ball to follow in your minds’ eye figured out  and not to move your head while you putt. When standing over your putt with your eye on the ball and form the mental image of the path to the hole. Visualize – think distance not speed.

Some pros even teach putting with your eyes closed to get a consistency feeling to your stroke. Try a drill of hitting a number of 10-foot putts with your eyes closed. That will help develop your feel and get your mind off the mechanics of the stroke.

Concentrate on the spot where the ball was before impact. Don’t lift your head to see where the ball is going. When you’re not looking and pulling your body up you’ll make more putts. When you hear the ball rattle in the cup you can lift your head.

Practice Your Approach 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.  Take time to position yourself before your start putting.

Maintain a straight back allowing your hands to swing under your shoulders is the simplest of positions to employ.

If your hands are outside your shoulders (that is, farther 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. It’s important that the consistency of your shot depend on the same grip each and every time. 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 grip should not be too tight, and your arms should be relaxed. Your stroke should be a one-piece smooth action. Keeping your wrists stiff, your arms move backwards creating your shoulders to work like a pendulum. The motion begins by dropping your left shoulder.

Make sure your closing fingers of your grip don’t change the angle of the club face. Try using a very light 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. – Sam Snead won a record 82 PGA events and about 70 others worldwide.

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