Golf Putting Drills

by Dave Pelz

 

Dave Pelz , PGA golf instructor, illustrates how to improve your long putts at about fourty to sixty feet out.

This putting drills have you work with three balls and practice at 40, 50 and 60 feet until you can develop the feel at these longer distances.

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Putting Drill Distance Control Drill   by Mark Crossfield
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Below are three great putting drills I've used in my golf lessons over the years designed to hone your putting skills.

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A Simple OneHand Putting Drill   by Maxx Johnson

By Mark Crossfield

 

Golf Putting Drill Distance Control Drill with Mark Crossfield. This is a simple drill that helps you work on controlling your distance.

The objective of this drill will help you get closer to the hole on your longer putts.

This drill only requires the use of a flag pole and a few balls. Set the flag a few feet behind the hole as a guide. The goal is to either get the ball in the hole or between the hole and the flag. The flag behind the hole helps you to better judge the distance and get in the habit of not coming up short.



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Way to Cure the Putting Yips  by David Shen
Covers technical skills where you might have some need additional training.Techniques to work on your visualization skills

Three Stroke - Saving Putting Drills   by Jack Moorehouse
Below are three great putting drills I've used in my golf lessons over the years designed to hone your putting skills.

Importance of Golf Putting Drills   by Paul Hobart
In the case of golf, when you spend those extra few minutes on the greens, practicing for your next match, you are actually preparing yourself for the speed and alertness that the game will demand of you.

A Simple OneHand Putting Drill   by Maxx Johnson

by Perfect Pitch Golf



The objective of this drill is work on your eight foot putts. It requires the use of a stake and string to use a guide.

You setup the string to simulate your target line. This putting drill gives you immediate feedback to see how accurate you are on your putts.

Professional players will average getting these putts in about 50% of the
time.



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Three Stroke - Saving Putting Drills   by Jack Moorehouse
Below are three great putting drills I've used in my golf lessons over the years designed to hone your putting skills.

Importance of Golf Putting Drills   by Paul Hobart
In the case of golf, when you spend those extra few minutes on the greens, practicing for your next match, you are actually preparing yourself for the speed and alertness that the game will demand of you.

A Simple OneHand Putting Drill   by Maxx Johnson

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By Jack Moorehouse

Sinking more putts, as I've said in my golf tips, is the key to quickly lowering your golf handicap. You use your putter more than any other club in the bag. Think about it. Two-putting each hole during a round means you used your putter 36 times. That's anywhere from 30 percent to 40 percent of most scores. Yet the average golfer spends far less time practicing his or her putting than working on his driving or chipping.

If that's you, then you need to make the most of your time on the practice green. Develop a routine practicing your putting that makes use of every minute you're on the green. Try sinking every putt you take, unless you're practicing your lag putting. And include drills in your practice routine designed to improve your putting fundamentals. Below are three great putting drills I've used in my golf lessons over the years designed to hone your putting skills.

Steady Head Drill

Among the most common mistakes I see in my golf lessons is a player moving his or her head while putting. We all know we should keep our heads still during a putt. And many of us do. But some players still have a hard time doing it. They look up to see where the ball is going once they've hit the putt. That's only natural. Moving your head hampers accuracy. To put well, you have to keep your head down and steady throughout the stroke. The Steady Head drill teaches you that.

Assume your normal putting stance, with your eyes fixed directly over the ball. Have your partner hold your head while you hit the putt, releasing it only after you've made contact with the ball. Keep looking at the spot where the ball was after you've made contact and count to three. Then look up to see where the ball went. Some teachers recommend staring at the spot where the ball was until you hear the ball fall in the cup. That works, too.

Eyes Closed Drill

Golf teachers often talk about "feel" in their golf instruction sessions. All great putters have great feel when it comes to putting. It's among the most important attributes you can develop when it involves the flat stick Your goal, once you've determined your line and assessed your speed requirements, is to remember the feel of a good putting stroke when you hit the ball. Feel can only be developed through practice. This drill helps you develop more feel.

You'll need a partner for this drill. After you've taken your putting stance and fixed your eyes directly over the ball, have your partner putt his hand between your eyes and the ball, blocking you vision. Now putt the ball. If you don't have a partner, close your eyes just before hitting the ball.

This drill encourages you to really feel the movement of your arms. You may fined that the slower they move, the more consistent your putting. Plus. it's a great exercise for learning distance control. Hit 10 putts with someone holding their hand in front of your face or with your eyes closed. See how many you can sink. Then try another spot on the green.

Ball Between The Knees Drill

Another common putting error I see in my golf lessons is a lack of stability. To putt well consistently, you must have great stability. Unfortunately, weekend golfers tend to move their lower bodies when they putt. That's a fatal mistake, but one that an be corrected with the help of a big rubber ball.

Take your normal putting stance on the practice green. Then wedge a rubber ball between your legs. Now squeeze the ball slightly with your thighs. Keeping the ball tight between your legs creates a solid foundation for your putting. Now hit some putts. Hitting putts this way helps develop a real feel for stability, essential to achieving a consistent putting stroke.

Work on these three drills from a variety of spots on the practice drill. They encourage better putting by ingraining three key putting fundamentals. If you keep practicing them, you'll eventually sink more putts per round, lowering your scores and golf handicap. You take more shots per round with your putter than any other club in your back. Make them all good ones.

Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book "How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros." He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately. He has a free weekly newsletter with the latest golf tips, golf lessons and golf instruction.

Putting Drill: A Simple Putting Drill That Anybody Can Do
Author: Maxx Johnson

Many students want to go directly to the driving range for every lesson in a series. Truth be told it would benefit them more if they would allow us to work on a putting drill and head to the practice putting green. It has been proven time and time again that the quicker that you improve your putting the quicker your scores will come down. With that being said, practicing a putting drill just does not sound as sexy as pulling out the driver and seeing how far that you can blast a ball down the fairway.

To improve your putting, try this one-hand putting drill. Once they get over the shock of the thought of attempting to putt with just one hand, it has helped many of my students to improve their putting stroke and in turn lower their golf scores. This can easily help you do the same.

Two reasons that I highly encourage my students to practice this one handed putting drill is that it gives them the exact feel of a proper putting motion and it develops a feel for the proper impact position for the putting stroke. This is a very simple thing to implement into your putting practice. Take your grip stance and posture and proceed to setup to stroke a putt from just two to three feet away from the hole.

Take your usual putting grip for a putting stroke. Assuming you are putting right handed, take your left hand off the putter leaving only your right hand on the putter in the hands usual position. Now you should have your putter in its regular position and the ball position placed in your usual position as well. The palm of your right hand should be equal to the direction of your putter face.

One reason for doing this putting drill from such a short distance as two or three feet is the backswing will not need very much movement. This should allow you to "feel" the putter head as it moves through the motion no matter how strong you are. The right wrist should keep the same angle throughout the stroke as at address and will not break AT ALL during this stroke from this distance.

With the correct grip pressure, you will be able to feel your putter load against the index finger of your right hand (again, for a right handed golfer). This load that is properly stored will be delivered to the golf ball during the forward stroke and will be lost just after impact. If you use a stripped range ball while doing this putting drill, place the stripe so it is parallel to the green surface and make your stroke under the stripe on the range ball. Your right hand should be ahead of the ball at impact. To finish the putting drill, hold your finish to a slow count of three. The putter head should be under your hands and not way out in front of your hands. Remember, your right wrist angle should not change.

With this simple putting drill, it will not take long at all and you will begin to hit your putts more and more solid and will be watching them go into the hole. Once this happens you will watch your scores go lower and lower.
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Improve Your Putting With This Practice Drill
By James Steele

Your short game on the golf course will be one of the biggest contributing factors to your final score. Take a look at this practice drill to improve your putting swing and find out how you can increase your chances of sinking those 6 foot and closer putts. These can be the most frustrating and elusive shots because they are so close it seems like they should be easy.

You'll want to start off with grabbing 10 to 20 golf balls to make sure that you have enough to practice your swing several times in a row before having to retrieve and start over. Also, make sure that you find a nice flat area of the putting green to practice on. In the future you can worry about bends and breaks on the green, but for right now we simply want to make sure you have a consistent smooth swing when you putt.
Now you want to make sure that you are about three or 4 feet away from the cup. This will be far enough away to add a degree of difficulty to be shot, as well as be good practice on the distance that will come up quite often in your golf game.

The first step to this practice drill is to work on the simple mechanics of the swing. This means that every time you begin your swing your putter head is going straight back from the ball in a perfect line from the putter head to the ball to the hole. This sounds very simple and obvious, but if you take a moment to concentrate on your swing you will probably notice some slight deviation from that straight-line which will consistently throw your putts off by a few inches. Practice swinging straight back and threw the ball in a slow consistent manner to make sure your swing is straight.

Gauge how the ball hits off of your putter face to understand if it is truly square and in-line the putt direction you would like to go. This is often one of the most common mistakes people make when putting. While their backswing might be straight and in-line, their putter face is slightly off square due to too much rotation of the body or poor grip on the handle.

To improve on this, continue to make sure that your backswing is straight and minimize your body movement while swinging through the putt. This will allow you to make any changes to your grip that are required to keep the putters head square to your shot.

Once you have fine tuned this swing, set a goal of getting five putts in a row and then 10 and then 20 and so on. This repetition and self competition will put a little pressure on you to give you a better feel for when you're competing against friends as well as consistent good practice to help your body remember the swing.
To be able to consistently keep up a practice schedule you may want to look into adding your own practice putting green to your home. They can easily be installed in your backyard, and can even be as simple as getting a small piece of artificial turf and a ball marker that can easily be used on the patio and rolled up when not needed.

As you can imagine this little drill can have a huge impact on your putting stroke and your short game. Practice consistently a few times a week and impress your friends out on the greens.
James provides information about getting a backyard home putting green through his website on personal putting green.

How To Improve Your Putting With Practice Drills  by Rickard Strongert, VideoJug's resident golf expert illustrates several practise drills to improve your golf putting.



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Below are three great putting drills I've used in my golf lessons over the years designed to hone your putting skills.

Importance of Golf Putting Drills   by Paul Hobart
In the case of golf, when you spend those extra few minutes on the greens, practicing for your next match, you are actually preparing yourself for the speed and alertness that the game will demand of you.