bobmac
Major Champion
No-one knows why they are a good or bad putter, it's just one of those things in life. It's your destiny.
Some cant wait to get at that birdie putt while others just want to get the 3-putt over and done with and move on.
Hours of practice and a fortune spent on shineys didn't work, 3 bouts of the Yips didn't help and confidence as low as the bottom of a very low thing has put paid to any ambitions that one day you will find the magical putter, the secret knowledge that good putters have and actually start holing some putts.
I am of course talking rubbish.
As long as you can stand up and you can see reasonably well, there is no reason on this earth why anyone can't become a good putter.
Mental anguish caused by the need to hole every putt can lead to complete melt down on the greens as many of you have seen on the tele.
But as far as the club golfer is concerned, you only have to get the ball reasonably adjacent to the hole to give it a chance to go in off a spike mark/pitchmark/worm cast/heel print etc etc. Sadly however, the same blemishes can send a perfect putt off at 90 degrees and just fuel the golfers frustrations.
Get yourself a putter you like the look of and feel of AND DONT CHANGE IT.
Then get a technique that will send the ball on the line you have chosen and at a speed that will reach the hole and barring accidents, the ball may even go in.
If however your stroke differs from month to month, week to week, day to day indeed hour to hour and you keep blaming your poor putting on the shiney that once promised such greatness, you WILL be destined to never hole a putt longer than 4 ft (unless you mis-read it).
Chose a nice putter, get a good technique and remember, not all good putts go in.
Some cant wait to get at that birdie putt while others just want to get the 3-putt over and done with and move on.
Hours of practice and a fortune spent on shineys didn't work, 3 bouts of the Yips didn't help and confidence as low as the bottom of a very low thing has put paid to any ambitions that one day you will find the magical putter, the secret knowledge that good putters have and actually start holing some putts.
I am of course talking rubbish.
As long as you can stand up and you can see reasonably well, there is no reason on this earth why anyone can't become a good putter.
Mental anguish caused by the need to hole every putt can lead to complete melt down on the greens as many of you have seen on the tele.
But as far as the club golfer is concerned, you only have to get the ball reasonably adjacent to the hole to give it a chance to go in off a spike mark/pitchmark/worm cast/heel print etc etc. Sadly however, the same blemishes can send a perfect putt off at 90 degrees and just fuel the golfers frustrations.
Get yourself a putter you like the look of and feel of AND DONT CHANGE IT.
Then get a technique that will send the ball on the line you have chosen and at a speed that will reach the hole and barring accidents, the ball may even go in.
If however your stroke differs from month to month, week to week, day to day indeed hour to hour and you keep blaming your poor putting on the shiney that once promised such greatness, you WILL be destined to never hole a putt longer than 4 ft (unless you mis-read it).
Chose a nice putter, get a good technique and remember, not all good putts go in.
