Putting Drills To Lower Your Scores

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1 year ago

Tips to help lower your scores

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00:00So one of the drills that I love to do on the passing green, just to make sure that

00:10my club face is returning to the ball square, is I like to use, just on my Chrome Soft here,

00:15I've got, I've actually got these three lines, the triple track lines, and I'm going to use

00:20these as kind of a drill. And very simply, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to

00:23aim at a target, and I'm going to point those lines literally directly at this target. Now

00:29when I take my putt, and actually I'm going to do this one, I'm going to hit quite a few

00:33putts doing this. If I start closing the club face down, what we're going to see is those

00:38lines are going to start wobbling and the ball's going to go off to the left. If I do

00:42the opposite and the club face is returning open, again, those lines are just going to

00:47start wobbling off to the right. So what I want to do is just, I've got a club of balls,

00:51I'm just going to hit a few towards the target. And I just want to see, can I get these lines

00:55to just go end over end towards the hole? So let me just have a little go, strike one

01:01just to the target. So I missed it on the right, and I could really see the lines wobbling

01:07off to the right when I did that. So I know the club face didn't close down well enough,

01:14it was open through. So I'm going to do that again, line it straight up to a target, set

01:19up behind, and I'm just going to try now and close the club face down slightly, just so

01:24I can really see those lines going end over end. It's a really good way of using the triple

01:30track technology to help your putting. So for those of you that are really struggling

01:34with distance control, I've got a great little drill that I want you to try. As we know,

01:39distance control really is king. If you were to misread a putt by, say, three foot, if

01:44your distance control is correct and is right, the next putt is only a three-footer. So it

01:49makes a lot of sense to work on this part of the game. Now, how do we do it? So what

01:54I've got here is what we call a ladder drill. I've just got a couple of stations here set

01:58up. You can use cones or I've just got alignment sticks. The idea is to putt a ball and try

02:03and get it to stop within the station. If I can do that, I then move on to the next.

02:07If I get that one, I move on to the next one. Now, what I'm trying to do, if I fail, if

02:12I hit it short or long, I have to start the whole thing again. So let's have a go. First

02:18one in. There's the first one. It's slightly longer. Then the next station. Let's go for

02:36the last. So there I have it. That's the ladder drill. That's the station drill. Give it a

02:45go. Try to get all three. If you fail, you've got to start again. I really hope that helps.

02:50Here's a lovely little drill just to give you a bit of confidence before you go out

02:54onto the golf course. Unfortunately, what I see with so many players on the putting

02:58green before they go onto the first tee is they've done a great little putting routine

03:03and they always finish exactly the same way, just hitting a couple of balls to the hole.

03:08The issue that I have with this is it's kind of lose-lose practice because if you hole

03:13it from, say, two, three foot, well, you kind of feel you should be holding that anyway.

03:17So you haven't actually gained much. But what happens if you miss? Now, you could actually

03:22do this to some extremes where you get 100 balls. You could hole 99 of them, but if you

03:27miss one, if you're faced with that on the golf course, unfortunately, you will be thinking

03:32of the one that you missed. So what I like to do is take the hole out of play, use something

03:37really small. I've got a tee peg here, but you can use something small like a needle.

03:43Take the hole out of it and just give you a really small perception. What I want you to do is just

03:47get a line of balls, put them in a circle, and actually just very simply just put towards the

03:52tee. Now, if you miss it, it's not the end of the world as long as it didn't go too far either side

03:58because it probably would have gone in. But if you hit it, your confidence just grows and you

04:03feel really good getting onto the first if you're faced with this. So let's have a go and see if I

04:07can hit the tee. So you can see I've hit the tee there. I'll move to the next one and I will

04:15keep doing this and I will see how many times I can hit that tee. So one of the things that

04:20always gets me on a passing green before people go out and play golf is they're always practicing

04:25with three golf balls. And where this is really funny from a coach's perspective is it's got

04:30nothing to do with the real life game of actually adding a bit of pressure. If you think of golf,

04:35you only get one go at it. You get one opportunity. Unfortunately, when you're practicing

04:40with three balls, you get feedback. You can miss the first one short, say you miss the second one

04:45long, and then you get it right the third time. Unfortunately, your brain is just adjusted to the

04:50two previous shots. What I like to try and do is this little setup station here is the nine-ball

04:56drill. And it just adds some vital pressure to your putting. And the way we do that is twofold.

05:02What I want you to do is actually, first of all, keep a score of how you do this, but keep the

05:08shots as random as possible. So I want you to say, do the first one short, move to a long,

05:14move to a medium, keep mixing up the balls until you finish the nine balls. I want you to hole out

05:20every single one and I really want you to get a score at the end of it. So give the nine-ball

05:26drill a go and watch your confidence grow.

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