View Poll Results: How many strokes does it take you to putt the ball in?

Surtees · 03-31-2008, 10:01 PM

how many putts does it normally take you to get the ball in the hole?
Mine is normally 2 or 3

**King Woods** · 04-01-2008, 09:42 PM

I generally two putt. Putting/chipping aren't really problems for me. It's getting the ball to the green that's challenging.

Surtees · 04-01-2008, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by King Woods

I generally two putt. Putting/chipping aren't really problems for me. It's getting the ball to the green that's challenging.

I think it can all be a bit of a challenge sometime

skeener · 04-02-2008, 03:21 PM

Lately my total golf game has just been amazing, chipping and putting are no longer weak points in my game. I didn't have a single 3 putt all day Sunday and shot a 67 on a par 70 course.

Surtees · 04-02-2008, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skeener

Lately my total golf game has just been amazing, chipping and putting are no longer weak points in my game. I didn't have a single 3 putt all day Sunday and shot a 67 on a par 70 course.

Thats great to hear, annoying but great round for you. Any chipping pointers?

skeener · 04-02-2008, 05:57 PM

Not really... I don't know what I was doing different that caused me to play so good around the green.

Surtees · 04-02-2008, 06:14 PM

its avfunny old game you can do the same thing between a couple of round but sometime it just seems to work better then other time.

BigBen88 · 04-05-2008, 10:55 AM

putting isn't really the best part of my game. This is my 3rd year playing golf and im loving it more and more every year. Im only 17 so I still have a lot of things to learn about the game of golf. Putting is definately one of them

... btw hi everyone.. im new here lol

cbwheeler · 04-05-2008, 01:53 PM

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.