On Friday evening I had a putting lesson with Harry. The lesson revolved around a couple of drills the main one being for grooving a good putting stroke from close in and the other for distance lag putt's.
Firstly my grip was ok and my alignment is ok, the main change in my set up is to get me further over the ball so I'm looking right down on it rather than slightly inside the line.
The first drill was using tees to form a gate in front of the hole just larger than a golf ball then using tees to form a club path gate from 4-5 foot away. Once I got the speed right the ball was going through the gate almost all the time. My stroke can be very consistent when I get in the groove. Then once you take the tee peg gate away it's almost impossible to miss the hole it seams so big.
The other drill was similar but from a distance of 30 feet and instead of a tee gate in front of the hole a tee coral was formed with pegs in a semi circle one foot from the hole. the aim is to get the ball in or past the hole but stopping within 1 foot of the hole. But that was secondary in the lesson to the stroke which he made me change to a much straighter follow through.
It seams my problem is i'm doing to much of an arc stroke instead of a straight through stroke.
Anyway as always happens by the end of the lesson I was sinking putts for fun from all over the practice green. Just in time for the Saturday medal I thought!!! :)
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