Putting – Including Golf Equipment and Practice Time

Many of our students focus on the wrong part of their game in valuable practice time while trying to improve their score. You see the golf ranges full of golfer trying to straighten up their driving or even just trying to hit the ball further. If you analyse a golfers shots on the course then putting is the overwhelming contributor to shots taken on the golf course.

I am not sure why that I feel this is the part of the game is worked on the least? Perhaps it’s because that golfers feel they never loses a ball when they putt, hit duff shots, however and example of one of my students who has a 19 handicap, when I ask him what his weak parts of his game is he says his driving but he takes on average 36 putts per round. A tour players will take 26 putts per round a ten shot difference so if this student putted like a tour pro which he is capable of doing, then he would be a single figure golfer. Compare that to driving the ball his driving distance is 220 yards compare with the longer hitters on tour averaging over 300 yards. The task of getting him to that level is unrealistic on several fronts. Part of driving the ball a long way would be to improve golfers body strength as well as his technique and to be honest it’s time prohibitive. Tour players these days spend 2 – 3 hours in the gym to get to this level.

Additionally an important factor would be your golf equipment. Scotty Cameron one of the leading putter designers in the world takes great pride in the fact that his putters are not only a work of art and packed full of engineering, quality and innovation they are fitted personally for a tour player. This service can be done by your local golf shop when they analysis your stroke. Making sure the lie and loft are correct allowing you to start the ball of with a slight top-spin which is vital in distance control.

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