Top Golf Tips – Putting
Five things to remember when putting
After a smashing tee of shot and a great chip onto the green, you need to be able to have a great finish in order to keep your score down. Here are my top five things to remember when putting to help improve your final swings.
• Keep the wrists out of the stroke. Shoulders, arms and hands move together as a unit in a good putting stroke.
• Keep your head still. Just like in pool or snooker you must keep the head still during the stroke. Listen for the ball to go in the holes; don’t look up to watch it.
• Keep the rhythm of your stroke like a metronome. Count ‘one-two’ to yourself to keep the stroke smooth. Rhythm in a putting stroke
is just as important as rhythm in a full swing.
• Make sure you get the golf ball up to the hole. All putts from inside twenty feet should end up past the hole. Make sure you read the green to end up eighteen inches past and not lamely to lag into the hole at dead weight
• To read a green correctly you must look at the hole from both sides. If you really want to putt well from distance you must take time and look from the other side of the hole. The break often looks different from behind the hole.
