Originally Posted by cbwheeler

For those of you struggling with putting, remember this. Putting is all about speed control. You can miss a putt by 1 inch to the left, yet have it go 10 feet long and you will have a 10 footer coming back. Yet, you can miss a putt 6 inches to the left, have perfect speed, and have a 6 inch putt left.

This is the first step to great putting. Once your speed control is there, the direction control all comes with a solid stroke, which is pretty simple to develop with some work.

Here's a great drill for distance control. Grab 4 golf balls and stand about 20 feet away from a hole. Now your goal is going to be to putt the 4 balls so that each successive ball gets closer to the hole than the last. The balls cannot pass the hole, but you also are not allowed to make a ball until the last one. If you fail to get one ball closer to the hole than the last, you must start over. Obviously you can move to the side a bit if the last ball is in your line.

Master this from every distance.