Maninblack4612
Tour Winner
My putting has been very poor recently &, again, I missed a putt of 3 feet to the left of the hole. Distance control has been very poor recently & I’ve been having difficulty hitting the ball along the chosen line.
It was then that I remembered something I’d read years ago in the simplest, most helpful golf book I have ever possessed, “Play Better Golf†by John Jacobs. In the section on putting he says “For much of the time I played tournament golf I was a relatively poor putter and one of the reasons, I now realise was that I had let myself be influenced by some of the scores of clichés that attach to putting ‘method’â€.
He says the two worst were, 1. “Take the putter straight back along the line†and 2. “Keep the putter head low to the ground†These are the two things I have been trying, without success, to do for some time.
So, on the 15[SUP]th[/SUP] today I tried letting the putter take a “natural†course back slightly inside the line & through. Result – 5 foot putt holed for birdie. 2 putts from 12 feet on 16 and then a curly 15 footer knocked in on 17 followed by a 12 footer on 18 right into the middle of the hole.
It just felt so much more comfortable and the ball was going exactly where I intended it to go. Looks like the fault wasn’t reading the greens, as I suspected it sometimes was, and more not hitting it where it was intended to go. Roll on Sunday & we’ll see if this works over 18 holes.
It was then that I remembered something I’d read years ago in the simplest, most helpful golf book I have ever possessed, “Play Better Golf†by John Jacobs. In the section on putting he says “For much of the time I played tournament golf I was a relatively poor putter and one of the reasons, I now realise was that I had let myself be influenced by some of the scores of clichés that attach to putting ‘method’â€.
He says the two worst were, 1. “Take the putter straight back along the line†and 2. “Keep the putter head low to the ground†These are the two things I have been trying, without success, to do for some time.
So, on the 15[SUP]th[/SUP] today I tried letting the putter take a “natural†course back slightly inside the line & through. Result – 5 foot putt holed for birdie. 2 putts from 12 feet on 16 and then a curly 15 footer knocked in on 17 followed by a 12 footer on 18 right into the middle of the hole.
It just felt so much more comfortable and the ball was going exactly where I intended it to go. Looks like the fault wasn’t reading the greens, as I suspected it sometimes was, and more not hitting it where it was intended to go. Roll on Sunday & we’ll see if this works over 18 holes.
