Many pro golfers say that putting is the most important part of your golf game. How you practice can also affect your game. Finding a pro and taking a lesson can go a long way to improving your stroke. Here are some tips for beginners or even pros. Since putting skills account for 50% of your game, so, let’s focus on putting.

Putting Lessons
First practice putting exercises by incorporating putting drills in order to improve your putting confidence. Putting drills will help you focus you on routines that become second nature and ingrained as a skill set.

‘Drive for show putt for dough’ as the popular adage implies. The main focus is to see the line you want the golf ball to follow in your minds’ eye figured out  and not to move your head while you putt. When standing over your putt with your eye on the ball and form the mental image of the path to the hole. Visualize – think distance not speed.

Some pros even teach putting with your eyes closed to develop feel and consistency. Try a drill of hitting a number of 10-foot putts with your eyes closed. This will help focus on the feel and off the mechanics of the stroke.

Concentrate on the spot where the ball was before impact. Don’t lif your head to see where the ball is going. When you’re not looking and pulling your body up you’ll make more putts. After you hear the ball rattle around in the cup, then you can lift your head.

Practice Your Aproach Address

A minor yet important part of golfing instruction is your stance. Spend some time during your practice session making sure you have a solid putting stance.  Take time to position yourself before your start putting.

The simplest putting method is maintaining a straight back when your hands hang and swing directly under your shoulders.

Note the position of your hands and if your hands are outside your shoulders (that is, farther from your body), it will take on a different stance resulting in an inside-square-inside stroke. Your stance should normally be the narrowest of any shot that you play usually no wider than your hips.

Get A Grip

Always check your grip. A consistent grip is important. Like the address position, this is an important part of putting that often gets overlooked and cause irratic delivery.

Your club works similar to a pendulum motion. Your arms should be relaxed and your grip light. Your stroke should be a one-piece smooth action. When you move your arms backwards, the triangle created by your shoulders and the club work like a pendulum keeping your wrists stiff. Dropping your left shoulder gets the motion started.

Be sure that when you are  closing your fingers you don’t force the club into some angle of lie, of loft, other than its designed one. Experiment if you must by trying a lighter version of your normal grip.

Go With The Short Putts

How to break 80. Your putting practice routine should focus more on short shots than on long ones since percentage wise, that can affect your score the greatest. Master the short putts and apply those control skills to the long putts.

Carpet Putting

Sam Snead said, “I figure practice puts brains in your muscles,” and so by practicing your putting gives you a reliable consistent putting stroke. – Sam Snead won a record 82 PGA events and about 70 others worldwide.