Putting Lessons Designed To Enhance Your Golf Game
Many pro golfers insist that putting is the most important part of your golf game. It’s not how much you practice but how your practice that affects your game. Getting golf putting instruction goes a long way to improve your game. Here are some interesting tips for beginners or even pros. Since putting skills account for 50% of your game, so, let’s focus on putting.
Putting Lessons
First practice putting exercises by making use of putting drills in order to improve your golfing skills. Putting drills will help you focus you on routines that become second nature and ingrained as a skill set.
‘Drive for show putt for dough’ as the popular adage implies. The prime focus when you have your line figured out and not to move your head while you putt. When standing over your putt with your eye on the ball and form the mental image of the path to the hole. Visualize – don’t think speed, think distance.
Some pros even teach putting with your eyes closed to develop feel and consistency. Try a drill of hitting a number of 10-foot putts with your eyes closed. That will help develop your feel and get your mind off the mechanics of the stroke.
Concentrate on the spot where the ball was before impact. Don’t lif your head to see where the ball is going. When you’re not looking and pulling your body up you’ll make more putts. When you hear the ball rattle in the cup you can lift your head.
Practice Your Aproach Address
A minor yet important part of golfing instruction is your stance. Spend some time during your practice session making sure you have a good, well-balanced putting stance. Take time to position yourself before your start putting.
The simplest putting method is maintaining a straight back when your hands hang and swing directly under your shoulders.
Note the position of your hands and if your hands are outside your shoulders (that is, farther from your body), it will take on a different stance resulting in an inside-square-inside stroke. A normal stance about the width of your hips is the stance you should take.
Get A Grip
Always check your grip. It’s important that the consistency of your shot depend on the same grip each and every time. Like the address position, this is an important part of putting that often gets overlooked and cause inconsistent results.
Your club works similar to a pendulum motion. Your grip should not be too tight, and your arms should be relaxed. A smooth one-piece action should be your stroke. Keeping your wrists stiff, your arms move backwards creating your shoulders to work like a pendulum. The motion begins by dropping yor left shoulder.
Make sure your closing fingers of your grip don’t change the angle of the club face. Experiment if you must by trying a lighter version of your normal grip.
Go With The Short Putts
How to break 80. Your putting practice routine should focus more on short shots than on long ones since percentage wise, that can affect your score the greatest. After you have gained mastery of the short putt, put those same mental skills to use on longer putts.
Carpet Putting
Sam Snead said, “I figure practice puts brains in your muscles,” and so by practicing your putting gives you a consistent and repeatable putting stroke. – a world record of 82 PGA tournaments was won by Sam Snead and about 70 others around the globe.