From the article: Putting Tips
What's the best putting tip you've ever received? One tip that you read, heard, were told by a friend or pro, that actually worked - and worked well - for you? We'd love to hear it, and so would your fellow golfers. So tell us what the best putting tip you've ever gotten is.
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Simplify by breaking into stages
- Imagine how the putt will go from stroke to hole: 1.) read the putt and line it up with the line on your ball and commit to it. 2.) now, when addressing the ball the only thing you are now concentrating on is speed. This simplifies things by breaking a putt into stages. Helps tremendously.
- —Guest Jeff S.
Weight back
- Put your weight slightly back toward your heels - it is more difficult to pull or push a putt doing that.
- —Guest Tootz
Keep ball more towards your front foot
- A tip which worked wonders for me was from a South African instructor - simply keep the ball more forward towards the front foot. Helped me with follow through, line and distance. So simple.
- —Guest alan
Keeping Your Head Down
- Keeping your head down is important in the full swing and chipping, but more importantly in putting. The tendency to "peak" or "look up" can cause many flaws to influence the ball not to start "on line". Try placing a dime or dime size ball marker on the surface your practicing, and then placing the golf ball on top of the marker. As you practice putting you should see the dime or ball marker after you roll the golf ball. This is a great tip to keep your head down and start putts "on line".
- —Guest Tippy
Give the ball top spin
- Take the putter head one third of the way on the back stroke and two third of the way on the follow through, giving the ball topspin or striking the ball on the upswing. Ideal for putting from 5 feet or less.
- —Guest Top Spin
Life line
- Right handed putters holding the putter in your left hand, don't grip the putter in your fingers like the rest of your clubs. Let the shaft of the putter lay on your 'life line' in your left hand which is the crease that runs diagonal across your palm. The putter shaft will extend a line that will just about run parallel with your forearm.
- —Guest George Harrum
Forget about it
- Forget your last putt. It has nothing to do with this one. Think only about how you will make this putt.
- —Guest Don Porter
putting tip
- Hold the putter with the top hand with about a 4 pressure (on a scale of 1 to 10) and use the bottom hand to only guide it while holding it with a pressure of about 2. Make the stroke primarily with the top hand. This will prevent the wrist from breaking and also keep the putter in line during the stroke.
- —Guest Hassan
Ramp it Down
- Let the adrenalin drain out. Relax before putt. Take some time to reduce tension. Pray.
- —Guest Ed wilson
Try hard NOT to try hard.
- Brad Faxon talks about putting like you don't care. We get way too anxious and put far too much stress on things like putting. Go out some time and try to putt like you did when you were a kid. No expectations ... just have fun with it. Now, the next time you are on the green with a 5-footer for a par (or worse), remember that feeling of just having fun and not caring that much if it goes or not. it is amazing how it frees up your nerves and loosens you up. Give it a try!
- —Guest JP
Weight on the insides of the feet
- Years ago, on a teaching video, I remember Jack Nicklaus saying that he keeps his weight on the inside of his feet when putting ... in a slightly pigeon-toed stance. This helps in the stability of the putting stance, and it works for me.
- —Guest Chas W
Think birds
- Grip the putter as if it was a small live bird - loosely enough to restrain it but not hard enough to kill it!
- —Guest Colin
Swing not hit the ball
- When lining up your putt practice the distance with a swing, not a hit, then step up and swing thru towards your target. line
- —Guest benno
Reading the break
- Look at green as if one large plain piece of canvas. Imagine helicopter poised overhead and drops colored balls of paint. Which way does the paint run? Imagne all different colors being used. See a painting. Now hit your ball hard enough to make it thru the paint and know the ball will follow the same direction that the paint runs off the canvas.
- —Guest OnePuttJames
Line, Pace, Point
- Find the line, then get the pace right as you hit it through that point two to four inches in front of the ball.
- —golflakeview
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