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I believe that anyone from age eight to eighty can learn to become an excellent putter. You can outt well whether you have just taken up the game or you've been playing for many years and, like a million other golfers, have decided that you are the worst putter in the world.


Slope Solutions

If on putts that break severely you constantly leave the ball on the low side of the hole, change your ball position.

When facing a putt that breaks from left to right, play the ball off your left instep; this ensures that the putterface contacts the ball as it's almost closing and that you keep the ball on the high or "pro" side of the hole.

When playing a putt that breaks in the opposite direction, position the ball off your right instep; this ensures that the putterblade remains open and again that you keep the ball on the high side of the hole.

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Get Some "Shut-Eye"

Beginners are usually terrible putters, because they have no data stored in their brain about how the ball will react to a particular style and speed of stroke.

What I recommend you do in order to quickly learn how to gauge distance is to hit balls with your eyes closed. Before looking up, guess how far the ball rolled. In no time, you'll be matching a stroke to a distance.

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How to Win an Uphill Battle

In playing a severe uphill putt, guard against leaving the ball short of the hole by imagining that the hole is three feet farther away or by hitting the top of the ball so that you impart a touch of overspin on it.

Give Your Putts a Head Start

Lifting the putter on the takeaway is a common problem and one that leads to a chopping action at impact.

To promote a good follow-through and a pure roll of the ball on the greens, you must start the club back low to the ground. The best way to encourage this low back takeaway is to sole the putterhead two inches behind the ball and start your stroke from that position.

How to Make a Tension-Free Stroke

The player who consistently leaves putts short of the hole is one who is overly tense. He presses the putter down into the green, holds the club with a death grip, and moves the putter back so slowly you'd think he'd been locked in a freezer for a few hours.

To promote a tension-free, arms-shoulders pendulum stroke, raise the putterhead about an inch off the ground and then start your stroke from that position.

How to Cure the Push and Pull

Hitting putts either left or right of the hole may not necessarily be traced to bad body alignment or a bad stroke.

If you pull putts left of the hole, it could be that you're setting up with your hands behind the ball. If you push putts right of the hole, you could be setting your hands so far ahead of the ball that you force the putterface to look right of the target - exactly in the direction that the ball rolls.

Have a friend check that your hands are either in line with the ball or a tad ahead of it.