good idea, I think I actually have a nice stroke but something is going wrong as putts dont feel solid or consistent
40 putts
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good idea, I think I actually have a nice stroke but something is going wrong as putts dont feel solid or consistent
gd91
Newbie
I think I actually average above 40 putts... a good round for me is sub 40 these days. Wow that sounds bad reading it back!
Need to get that sorted ASAP!
Need to get that sorted ASAP!
bobmac
Major Champion
FairwayDodger
Money List Winner
38 putts for me today - 3 x 3 putts and only one single putt. Just didn't hole anything outside 4 feet. Played badly, putted badly for a gross 79 so I guess the positive is there must be a lower score coming....
BoadieBroadus
Q-School Graduate
i fear that there is a tendency for a day's putting to start going downhill after a few bad ones.. the more anxious you get, the less flow in the stroke and the higher the likelihood you start lifting your head to see where it's gone. your natural stroke may be fine, but that natural stroke may change when you've just had a few 3 or 4 putts in a row. find a solid routine with light grip and still head and try and stick to that in your mind no matter how bad things seem to be getting...
mcbroon
Journeyman Pro
That's what happened to me yesterday - 3 putted the first and the third and confidence evaporated. In the end, the only putt I holed from more than 3 feet was on 18, when the round was gone and I had stopped worrying.
Curls
Journeyman Pro
This is pretty much the thread I started a month or so back. 40+ putts the norm. While my game tee to green had never been better I had started to fear and hate putting in equal measure. I know my putting stroke is okay, thanks mainly to the V-easy and some nice tips from Bob, so I couldn't work out why I was so bad on the greens. Slicer30 recommended Bob Rotellas "Putting out of your mind" and it's transformed my game. First round out (after only reading 50 pages!) I won the Medal with 81-17 = 64 and a nice juicy cut. In fact, I missed a lot of short putts that day, still came in around 35 putts, but there was a different feeling afterwards. Instead of sitting cursing the putts missed I thought of the good longish ones I holed, and my attitude is now entirely different, I can't wait to get out golfing again so I can see the putts drop. My putting was fine, I just wrapped it up in my head all wrong. I too said that I am a crap putter, but I'm not, I never was, I just did a great job of getting in my own way on the green. Amazingly I would be thinking about just about anything and everything except what I should have been thinking about
Putt the ball in the hole.
Crazy stupid brilliant game. Get the book, it stresses you have to have good fundamentals and for that I cannot recommend the V-easy highly enough, but once you've got a stroke that can hit the ball reasonably well, just putt the ball in the hole. It really is that simple
Putt the ball in the hole.
Crazy stupid brilliant game. Get the book, it stresses you have to have good fundamentals and for that I cannot recommend the V-easy highly enough, but once you've got a stroke that can hit the ball reasonably well, just putt the ball in the hole. It really is that simple
