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How to Sink More Puts and Reduce Your Golf Handicap

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Friday, 27 November 2009 08:55

How to Sink More Puts and Reduce Your Golf Handicap

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No matter what your handicap putting is the one area of your golf game where you can play scratch golf or better. On the greens you can, and should, get around in 36 puts or less. However, unlike the rest of your round, you cannot recover from a missed put. As you may have seen, the golf pros sink puts from all over the green and anything under 12 feet (3 meters) they sink most of the time.

Steps

You can dramatically improve your handicap by merely reducing the number of puts you take during a round. The trick for you is to become so confident in your putting that puts within a certain range, whether it is 3 feet or 6 feet or 12 feet, becomes a virtual gimme put. Let's assume that, for now, your gimme range is three feet. This means that for any long put you have a target area with a diameter of 6 feet to aim for. So, instead of aiming for the small hole you aim to get within that 6 feet area. Now, all you need to do is to get comfortable sinking 3 foot puts. And here's how you do that. On the practice green at your club forget about the long puts and do the following exercise:

- Find a fairly level hole on the practice green
- Place a golf ball one foot away of the hole on each side (4 golf balls in total)
- Sink the puts
- Move the golf ball 1 foot further away from the hole (2 feet)
- Sink the puts. If you miss a put you start all over from one foot.
- Move the golf ball 1 foot further away from the hole (3 feet)
- Sink the puts. If you miss a put you start all over from one foot.
An so forth.
After a number of these practice sessions all puts under 6 or 10 feet will become virtual gimme puts and all long puts become easy as you only want to get within your personal gimme range.

Within a few rounds, provided you do this exercise before each round of golf, you should be getting around in 30 to 36 puts. For more golf lessons Mind Games: 10 Mind Lessons Guaranteed To Improve Your Golf Game Instantly!

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