May 23, 2010
Learning Putting Skills
Many pro golfers say that putting is the most important part of your golf game. How you practice can also affect your game. Getting golf putting instruction goes a long way to improve your game. 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 in order improve your putting confidence. 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 main focus is to see the line you want the golf ball to follow in your minds' eye 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 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 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 good, well-balanced 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.
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. 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 irratic delivery.
Your club works similar to a pendulum motion. Your arms should be relaxed and your grip light. A smooth one-piece action should be your stroke. 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.
Be sure that when you are closing your fingers you don't force the club into some angle of lie, of loft, other than its designed one. 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. After you have gained mastery of the short putt, put those same mental skills to use on longer 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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