Putting in the practice time.

How many times in a row can you roll a golf ball over a 5 pence piece from 6 feet away with your putter?

Well, We have a short pile carpet at work with sort of patten lines on it so that alignment is a piece of cake, Basically it shows up how reliable your putting stroke is.

From 3 & 4 feet it’s actually very easy to just keep rolling balls over the coin, in fact only boredom gets in the way and I seldom miss unless I let my attention wander. But from 6 to 10 feet it becomes a little trickier. Still I can do it time after time when I get into a grove. With my normal miss being a coins width to the right that would have easily dropped into a real cup.

What’s the benefit of this? Well I have been doing this most every Friday (a quiet day at work) since xmas and I’m now very confident in my putting stroke. Basically if I miss one on the putting green it because I miss aligned, or miss judged the break/grain/speed. Having confidence in your putting stroke is a huge boost, it doesn’t mean I’m going to turn into a great putter but it does give me added incentive to practice my real putting once the greens come to life a bit later in the spring.

Actually I am going to turn into a great putter! :)