indiginit

i didn't read the question right.

i don't worry about missing them short, first of all, an 8 inch putt is an 8 inch putt... i play the die-off at the hole with as little stroke as i think i can get away with.

thats what i think, not what i do...

ditto confidence. i start with 2 balls 1 ft from the cup and move out in 1 ft incriments when i warm up. if i don't sink both, i stay at that distance... up 5 feet. i usually play the downhill side of the cup if there is one... then a couple uphill then downhill lag bombs... really gives you an exagerated idea of the greens' surface that day.

edit: great thread title, by the way

cbwheeler

Could have sworn I posted in this. Anyway, you're right about this. The three footers are sometimes the hardest putts in golf. Why? Because you tell yourself, "if I miss this I'm gonna look like a total jackass."

Then what happens is, your brain get focused on what to do to miss. The subconcsious takes over and unless you are good at controlling this, your body automatically does what your subconcsious sees.

How do you control this? You control your subconscious. Stand behind the ball, close your eyes, and see yourself making the stroke that puts the ball in the whole. Don't just visualize, but feel the stroke happening. Stand over the ball and do the same thing. As you take your practice strokes, feel the ball hitting the clubface, hear it dropping in the hole.

Then putt and hear it rattle.

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