3 Golf Putting Tips – Reading the Greens

One thing that is essential to becoming a great putter is the ability to read greens correctly.  There are plenty of golf putting tips, but know how to read the greens is one of the most important.

Although reading greens requires experience, there are a few elements that anyone can observe that will improve their ability to read greens.

3 Golf Putting Tips to help you improve your putting:

• Always Look Uphill – There are those players who like to look at the putt from behind the ball. Others will look at their putt from behind the hole.  Most Professional golfers will do both and sometimes even read their putts from the side.

Having more information is better when it comes to reading greens, but make sure it does not promote paralysis by analysis.

Sometimes, when I am reading a putt from different directions it appears that the putt is breaking in different directions.  This can confuse the issue.  So when this happens, I know that from experience the best read is looking uphill.

Look at it this way, when you are faced with a downhill putt, your most accurate read will be from behind the hole, looking uphill towards your ball. Read the rest of this entry

Sink More Putts

As a golfer, when you putt, what’s more important?  Do you think it’s the speed or the line of your putts that makes the difference?

If you have played golf for any length of time you know that putting is where the rubber meets the road.  If you can’t make putts, then your golf scores will never improve.

Many golfers believe that picking the right line for their putt is the most important part of putting.  In some ways this is true, you can’t sink a putt if you are putting away from the cup.

But in reality, it’s your distance control that makes all the difference to whether or not you will make more putts.

You probably heard the saying, “Never Up, Never In.”

Any good golfer knows that if you don’t get the ball to the hole, it’ll never go in.  It’s the golfers who understand this who are winning the skins and bets on the golf course.

Here is an example that will help prove this point:

Say you reach a typical par 4 in regulation and leave yourself with a 15 foot putt for birdie. When you read the putt, there is no break at all; you just have to get it to the hole.  You stroke your putt and it only goes 8 feet.  You are now left with a 7 foot putt for par to save the hole.

Take that same 15 foot putt, but this time you miss read the line, but when you strike the putt your ball reaches the hole, but is a foot or so to the left or right.  Instead of facing a daunting 7 footer for par, you are looking at a tap in.

Which putt would you rather have to save par?

Do I even need to ask?  This is really a no-brainer.

Improving your putting is one of the easiest ways to improve your game.  The best part is, it won’t cost you hundreds of dollars at the driving range.

So I ask again, when putting, what’s more important?  Do you think it’s the speed or the line of your putts that makes the difference?

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Putting is all about ‘feel’ and there is no better way to get the feel of your putter than by blocking out all other outside distracting factors.

You are probably wondering how you might be able to do this.

Try closing your eyes for a moment and see how you can focus more easily something.

Just the action of closing your eyes will eliminate more than half of the distraction that we encounter constantly throughout the day.

So this is lesson in playing golf with your eyes closed.

Seriously – this is a great way to perfect your putting by getting the right ‘feel’ Read the rest of this entry