Putting Drill Ideas

[garyinderry]

Pros are constantly putting the same putt through little gates to make sure the putts are going in the right direction.

I suppose for distance control it makes sense to mix them up.


I use different coloured balls. Yellow white orange and a different shade of yellow. keeps me from being bored silly putting white ball after white ball. I make up silly games against the colours and differentiate between them easily.

 

[mwm118]

Pros are constantly putting the same putt through little gates to make sure the putts are going in the right direction.

I suppose for distance control it makes sense to mix them up.


I use different coloured balls. Yellow white orange and a different shade of yellow. keeps me from being bored silly putting white ball after white ball. I make up silly games against the colours and differentiate between them easily.

Good idea, one of the main reasons behind this post is because all the drills I have used in the past have made me bored. I wanted to find a drill that I could do for at least 20 mins whilst staying concentrated.

 

[turkish]

OP one drill my pro just showed me (as i'm struggling with distance control)was called the cluster drill.

Basically my distance control was poor due to having poor tempo so was to develop tempo which is turn should help me.

Line up 5 or 6 balls quite close together. without looking at where they are going work on stroke length and tempo all being the same and hit one after the other walking onto each one. You eventually want them all being in a cluster. Do this for various lengths- the longer the length the harder it gets. Do this for uphill, downhill and flat putts.

A variation of this is increasing the length of stroke each ball you go to but keeping the same tempo and you get uniform distance increases.

 

[Alucard]

Think some folk are having an unnecessary go at the guy...he likes the look of the putter but is struggling with pace that's all...do the drills as described above but I recently saw a video where Darren Clark was saying that us lot should just practice from 2-4 feet out and just keep holing out. So take your putter and lay it on the ground and place a tee in the ground and repeat this at 4-6 spots around the hole. 2 balls per station and make your way round going back to the start of you miss one. You can then move out or in on 1 foot increments. This should give you confidence when you under or over hit a longer putt and your left with a wee stinker. Good luck.

Exactly, I agree with you, the way some people talk it seems that some people think that it is the putter that pops the ball in the hole, lol and not hours and hours of practice. I wonder how Ben Crenshaw ever managed with his old Wilson 8802 blade, lol

The guy who started the thread liked the look of the putter that he already owned and he asked politely for a few tips on putting practice for judging speed at longer putts as he was leaving them short and hitting them long.

He got some good tips and if he does what was advised he will benefit greatly from the advice.

 

[MadAdey]

More often than not people struggle with distance control through poor technique. If you do not swing the putter with the same stroke and rhythm then you will never get any real distance control.

A good tip is to put your bag towel down on a flattish part of a putting green. Go back about 20 foot and take 10 balls and try getting them all on it. If you can't stand there and putt all of them onto it then you probably have a technique problem and not swinging the putter the same every time. It might be time to find a good putting coach for a lesson, or take my previous advice of getting a V-Easy as using that will give you a repetitive putting stroke.

If you find you can drop them all onto your towel, then it is a problem with reading putts and having a feel for the pace required. Your technique is obviously good, if you can drop them all onto the towel. This is then something that no one can really teach you, as feel is something you have, rather than something you are taught.