Find a slope and build out from 3 feet to 15-18 feet. Use a chalk pen to create a “dotted” line. Focus is on visualization of putts and entry point into the hole.
Purpose is to mentally visualize putt roll time – make a 20 -40 foot putt and imagine the time it takes to slow and stop. Goal is to look up and see the ball just as it finishes.
Stroke random putts on the green to the pace of the metronome at 76 bpm. Purpose – just instill rhythm into the stroke.
- Drill strokes while checking tempo (2:1) and face rotation
- Wrist extension drill ( focus on shoulder driven stroke to remove “too” much wrist
Line & Gate Drills
Chalk line – drill starting line on 6 – 10 foot putts
Tiger tee drill (poker chip) – purpose to focus on centre face hits
Gate drills – 12 – 18 inch in front of ball – purpose focus on starting path.
Short Putt Drills
sets of putts 3,5,8
– total 12 putts ( scoring par 3,5 and -1 for 8 ft) Tour Quality (-1); Lowest -4
– High volume of reps
36 putts – 3,4,5 foot putts
Target make as many as possible. KEEPING Score.
Tour Class would be 5-6 misses out of 36.
Setup of a “spiral” of 3,4,5,6,7,8 foot putts.
4 tries to complete all 6 putts – first try – do each putt. 2,3,4th try – restart on miss.
10 putts around the cup from 3 ft. ( e.g. 3 attempts at 30, if make done, max misses 5 ) penalty = 1 more drill
| Streak (n) | Expected Attempts 3 FT | Expected Miss 3FT | Expected Miss 4FT |
| 10 | 1.5 | .5 | 1.4 |
| 20 | 2.3 | 1 | 2.8 |
| 30 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 4.2 |
| 40 | 5.2 | 2 | 5.6 |
| 50 | 7.7 | 2.5 | 7 |
Medium Putting Drill
Putts between 9 -11 feet – goal to reach 10 in minimum number of putts.
Variations:
- feet – 15-point game
- 15 feet – 5 point
| Point Scheme | |
| One-Putt | 2 |
| Two Putts, first putt long | 0 |
| Two Putts, first putt short | -1 |
| Three Putt | -3 |
| Scoring Standards | 5-15 | 10-10 | 15-5 |
| Golfer | Median Holes to Win | ||
| Best Tour Putter | 10 | 11 | 11 |
| Average Tour Putter | 10 | 14 | 14 |
| Worst Tour Putter | 11 | 17 | 18 |
| 80 shooter | 13 | 24 | 21 |
Setup a chalk line on a breaking putt. Work three variations – maximum, medium and minimal breaks. Purpose – Hone touch and feel and visualization of breaks. 6-12 foot.
Pace Drills
Two variables in Lag putting – Length of Backstroke, Energy (tempo), thought here is to keep the energy consistent and vary the backstroke.
Downhill putts are 3-putted 3 times as often as uphill putts. So let’s spend a bit more time refining touch and feel on downhill putts. This is building a reference for when you get out on the golf course.
Drill:
- 3 balls from 50,40,60 feet inside a 3 foot circle
- Final ball from 50 feet. [if fail, re-do the drill]
- Do drill from uphill and downhill to build a reference
Purpose to dial in 15-20-25 foot pace – Objective hit 3 balls to within 2 feet uphill and downhill. For 15 foot distance, work to get N balls just past to upto 2 feet.
Putt in the 5-10 foot range. Work on 3 speeds, 1) just die over the lip 2) Play speed and 3) Faster hit the back lip type speed. Purpose: Honing in touch.