Improve your putting stroke try these drills.
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Putting Drill - confidence booster
1. Practice holing out short putts by setting yourself a goal and don't leave the putting green or move on until you've achieved your goal.
2. Grab 6 or so balls and place them 3 feet from the hole. Select one ball, line it up and try to hole it. If successful pick another ball. if you miss, stop - collect the balls you have hit so far and start again.
3. Start out trying to hole 10 putts in a row. Then increase the goal. See if you can get upto the stage of holing 50 putts in a row.
This exercise is very good for testing and strengthening your nerve - if your target was 25 then the first few putts may seem easy compared to your 20th to 25th ball.
Putting Drill - line them up
1. Go to the practice green with 10 balls.
2. Choose a hole and line up the 10 balls at putter length intervals - starting one club away from the hole for the first ball, two clubs for the second ball etc until all 10 are laid out in a row.
3. Starting with the nearest one and putt the ball into the hole.
4. Move onto the 2nd ball and then the 3rd and so on until you've hit them all.
This is a great drill for learning the right feel for the length and speed to swing the putter for different distances.
A great warm up drill.
Putting - Ladder Drill
1. Take approximately 12 Golf balls and set up on the practice green with plenty of space.
2. Make a 30 yard putt to an area of green - don't pick a targret - this drill is about distance control.
3. Hit the next ball so it gets as close as you can to the first ball without going past it.
4. Repeat until you have all the balls spaced out.
5. If you misjudge a shot and it goes past the previous ball. Then start the drill again.
6. If you hit a shot very short then carry on with this last ball as your marker i.e. don't go past it.
This drill is good at giving you a sense of how hard to hit the ball and by not aiming at a hole it allows you to focus on length and not direction.
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