Putting etiquette - how much time?

[ScienceBoy]

How much break is there on a driving range matt anyway?



Sorry couldnt resist

 

[timgolfy]

Timmy

Try one of these. When you can make 100 on the spin without hitting it overly hard to use pace as the only means of getting it to the end, i.e. hit it dead weight then you will probably be good on the 3 footers

http://www.perfectmygolf.co.uk/acatalog/Yes_Putting_Rail.html

How does that help with aligning 20footers?

@ScienceBoy - couldn't resist what?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Tim, holing 20 footers is as much about luck as anything else, there are so many outside elements that you can't control that trying to make it scientific is pointless.

What is important is getting it close enough to make the second one. All you can do with any putt is give yourself the best opportunity to make the putt, as soon as it leaves the putter it's out of your control.

You can spend all the time you want perfecting your stroke, and you should absolutely do that, but trying to make 20 footers repetitively a waste of time. Work on pace by putting to a distance but not at a hole, the fringe of the green is good target. Work on your stroke by using the aid Homer posted or something similar. Once you've done that, you've given yourself the tools to give yourself the best chance to make a 20 footer on the course, but there's still only a very small chance it'll go in.

 

[HRC99]

Timmy

Try one of these. When you can make 100 on the spin without hitting it overly hard to use pace as the only means of getting it to the end, i.e. hit it dead weight then you will probably be good on the 3 footers

http://www.perfectmygolf.co.uk/acatalog/Yes_Putting_Rail.html

How does that help with aligning 20footers?

If you can hit a three foot putt perfectly straight 99 times out of a 100, you will stand a much better chance of holing a 20 footer.