Putting....Oh my

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So, great I can consistently get the ball off the tee.
I can nearly get the ball on the green in regulation, when I put my mind to it.

How annoying is it though, when you're on in two, and you three putt?

I put it right up there with a duck hook off the 1st or a big slice that has you shouting FORE!!!

5th hole yesterday.
I stick the driver 244 Yards down the fairway.
I GW the second 98 yards to the left side of the green.
Leave myself with a 12ft putt uphill.

I'm thinking ok left side and get it close. I leave it short and 3 putt. I then get to the par5 6th and 3 putt again!!

It's getting to the point where a 3 putt is just about the most damaging thing to my game.

The more I think about putting the more complex it becomes. It's not something I can really practice at home thick carpets in the house. Different surfaces to a green etc. Greens could be soft or hard one day and all that sort of thing, not been cut due to rain too. How do you get a defacto standard for your putting?
 
pokerjoke is right - go for the hole, don't be scared of the 3 foot putt back the other way. That's the attitude I have when I putt at my best, of course it's a confidence thing though.

Also, as you improve you will have more GIRs but that will mean, on average, being further away from the pin than you would be if you were 1 over GIR so will increase the chances of a 3 putt.
 
I wouldn't mind betting that (like 90% of golfers) you spend more time working on your long game than your chipping and putting :fore:
 
A consequence of hitting more G I R is more putts. Practise your putting.
 
Cheers folks. My scrambling figure is going up and I can see that out on the course, chipping in close for 1 putt 'sometimes' to save par. Bunker shots have just gone from taking 3-4 to get out, to coming out in 1 and landing pretty close. Nearly holed one yesterday. I think that's because I sat for about 2 hours one day in the practice bunker with shot after shot. Sand is all nice and dry now too so rather than dreading bunker shots, I'm actually excited by it. Prefer that to a chip off the green.

Yeah the putting thing will come dependent on how I want to practice it. We have a putting green for practice but its in worse nick than the actual greens. I tend to go back to a putt that I missed on the hole if there's no one around. More often than not I'm cursing the greenskeeper for putting the hole in such a silly place at the edge of a turn in the green or something lol
 
Paul77 said:
So, great I can consistently get the ball off the tee.
I can nearly get the ball on the green in regulation, when I put my mind to it.

How annoying is it though, when you're on in two, and you three putt?

I put it right up there with a duck hook off the 1st or a big slice that has you shouting FORE!!!

5th hole yesterday.
I stick the driver 244 Yards down the fairway.
I GW the second 98 yards to the left side of the green.
Leave myself with a 12ft putt uphill.

I'm thinking ok left side and get it close. I leave it short and 3 putt. I then get to the par5 6th and 3 putt again!!

It's getting to the point where a 3 putt is just about the most damaging thing to my game.

The more I think about putting the more complex it becomes. It's not something I can really practice at home thick carpets in the house. Different surfaces to a green etc. Greens could be soft or hard one day and all that sort of thing, not been cut due to rain too. How do you get a defacto standard for your putting?
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been there for 3 years, average 37 putts per round.

changed putters monthly in the search to help, blades, half mallets, full mallets but never a broom or belly as I'm old school.

You have to accept what you are doing doesnt work, you need to change it, radically.

I adopted Jordan Speiths grip which took a few days to be semi comfortable. Last round only one 3 putt and many single putts or close. 30 putts.

averaging 31 now

try it

what have you got to lose
 
Practice. Take half a dozen balls onto the putting green and start with straight, 3 foot uphill puts. Then change the angle so you're going across the break, and then downhill. Then go back 2-3 feet and repeat. Try and hole all 6 in a group without missing. If you miss, start again
 
Paul. Last thing before you hit the ball is take one last look a foot past the hole.

This will subconsciously help you get the ball to and past the hole.

This works.
 
Paul77 said:
So, great I can consistently get the ball off the tee.
I can nearly get the ball on the green in regulation, when I put my mind to it.

How annoying is it though, when you're on in two, and you three putt?

I put it right up there with a duck hook off the 1st or a big slice that has you shouting FORE!!!

5th hole yesterday.
I stick the driver 244 Yards down the fairway.
I GW the second 98 yards to the left side of the green.
Leave myself with a 12ft putt uphill.

I'm thinking ok left side and get it close. I leave it short and 3 putt. I then get to the par5 6th and 3 putt again!!

It's getting to the point where a 3 putt is just about the most damaging thing to my game.

The more I think about putting the more complex it becomes. It's not something I can really practice at home thick carpets in the house. Different surfaces to a green etc. Greens could be soft or hard one day and all that sort of thing, not been cut due to rain too. How do you get a defacto standard for your putting?
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If I don't have much time to practice putt before going out, I take a few balls 10 yards from the hole and watch how far the backstroke goes to get the distance. I then repeat at 5 yards. Whilst not exact it gives me an idea which steadily improves as the round goes on and you get a feel for the speed of the greens that day. good luck
 
Paul77 said:
Cheers folks. My scrambling figure is going up and I can see that out on the course, chipping in close for 1 putt 'sometimes' to save par. Bunker shots have just gone from taking 3-4 to get out, to coming out in 1 and landing pretty close. Nearly holed one yesterday. I think that's because I sat for about 2 hours one day in the practice bunker with shot after shot. Sand is all nice and dry now too so rather than dreading bunker shots, I'm actually excited by it. Prefer that to a chip off the green.

Yeah the putting thing will come dependent on how I want to practice it. We have a putting green for practice but its in worse nick than the actual greens. I tend to go back to a putt that I missed on the hole if there's no one around. More often than not I'm cursing the greenskeeper for putting the hole in such a silly place at the edge of a turn in the green or something lol
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You can practice your putting technique on your living room carpet. Do it tonight while you're watching the golf or something.
 
Canary_Yellow said:
You can practice your putting technique on your living room carpet. Do it tonight while you're watching the golf or something.
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Thing is though, I have an ultra thick shag pile carpet. Not really consistent with a smooth green. Plus my cats attack the balls everytime I roll one along a floor belt them off the skirting and then my neighbour complains about noise lol.
 
Paul77 said:
Thing is though, I have an ultra thick shag pile carpet. Not really consistent with a smooth green. Plus my cats attack the balls everytime I roll one along a floor belt them off the skirting and then my neighbour complains about noise lol.
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Get a putting mat and put the cats in the garden.

Also, you don't really put indoors to practice distance control, it's solely to practice technique and being able to roll the ball where you want it to go.
 
Iv had a putting lesson about a month ago and boy was I doing it wrong I thought I was ok putter but now its coming on nicely.

I used to always be the same mind set on long puts aim to get it close and never to, my coach said that they done lots of research on the bin-lid logic and its wrong the small the target the less the margin of error they found.
Always aim for the hole not close to the hole.

Also as one said get a putting mat and pick your putter up as much as possible so it becomes apart of you and get a lesson so that in your mind you know your doing it right
 
luke123 said:
bin-lid logict
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I have no idea how the bin lid got turned into a target but for many this did happen, when I was told about it the idea was the hole was the target and the bin lid (sometimes square 2 foot either side of the hole and back 4 feet) is the maximum miss. If you cannot get 7/10 or better inside the acceptable miss the drill is repeated (for like 20 foot putts or more).

It was always a tough drill but never the target aimed at, that would mean an acceptable miss could be 8 feet away, pretty easy to do 7/10 times but not good for avoiding 3 putts.

I practice long putts into this square, anything further than 1 foot short, wide or long is -1, anything in the square is 1 point, holed is 3 points, level or 1 foot short is 0 points.

I hit 5 balls, tot up the score then try and beat it, works a treat and is fun! Once holed three and missed the other two long... 7 points :(
 
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