Putting Drills To Lower Your Scores
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've hit it short or long, I have to start the whole thing again. So let's have a go.
02:18Let's put this one in. There's the first one. It's slightly longer. Then the next station.
02:34Let's go for the last. There I have it. That's the ladder drill. That's the station drill.
02:44Give it a go. Try and get all three. If you fail, you've got to start again. I really
02:49hope that helps. So here's a lovely little drill just to give
02:52you a bit of confidence before you go out onto the golf course. Unfortunately, what
02:56I see with so many players on the putting green before they go onto the first tee is
03:01they've done a great little putting routine and they always finish exactly the same way,
03:06just hitting a couple of balls to the hole. The issue that I have with this is it's kind
03:10of lose-lose practice because if you hole it from, say, two, three foot, well, you kind
03:16of feel you should be holding that anyway, so you haven't actually gained much.
03:19But what happens if you miss? Now, you could actually do this to some extremes where you
03:23get 100 balls. You could hole 99 of them, but if you miss one, if you're faced with
03:29that on the golf course, unfortunately, you will be thinking of the one that you missed.
03:34So what I like to do is take the hole out of play, use something really small, like
03:38I've got a tee peg here, but you can use something small like a needle, anything that
03:42just gives you, take the hole out of it and just give you a really small perception. What
03:46I want you to do is just get a line of balls, put them in a circle, and actually just very
03:50simply just putt towards the tee. Now, if you miss it, it's not the end of the world
03:55as long as it didn't go too far either side because it probably would have gone in, but
04:00if you hit it, your confidence just grows and you feel really good getting onto the
04:04first if you're faced with this. So let's have a go and see if I can hit the tee. So
04:13you can see I've hit the tee there. I'll move to the next one and I will keep doing this
04:16and I will see how many times I can hit that tee.
04:19So one of the things that always gets me on a passing green before people go out and play
04:23golf is they're always practicing with three golf balls. And where this is really funny
04:28from a coach's perspective is it's got nothing to do with the real life game of actually
04:33adding a bit of pressure. If you think of golf, you only get one go at it. You get one
04:37opportunity. Unfortunately, when you're practicing with three balls, you get feedback. You can
04:43miss the first one short, say you miss the second one long, and then you get it right
04:47the third time. Unfortunately, your brain is just adjusted to the two previous shots.
04:52What I like to try and do is this little setup station here is the nine-ball drill, and it
04:57just adds some vital pressure to your putting. And the way we do that is twofold. What I
05:02want you to do is actually, first of all, keep a score of how you do this, but keep
05:08the shots as random as possible. So I want you to, say, do the first one short, move
05:13to a long, move to a medium, keep mixing up the balls until you finish the nine balls.
05:19I want you to hole out every single one, and I really want you to get a score at the end
05:24of it. So give the nine-ball drill a go, and watch your confidence grow.