A very simple little technique to help your putting

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Putting, for me, was pure “horror” and I know I’m not alone in this. Most people hate putting practice because it’s so tedious – and it hurts your back!

But when I started to dig a bit deeper into the murky world of putting I found some very interesting stuff – particularly interesting since it didn’t involve me spending hours bent over on the putting green. This little tip is a tip that I got from a variety of sources but which is often discussed by Seve and Tiger – two of the greatest putters the world has ever seen.

Basically it’s about removing the consequences of the putt. You go through your routine and then simply (in my case anyway) just focus on one tiny spot on that back of the ball and commit to striking that spot perfectly in the way you have just visualised.

So that’s your goal – just to strike the ball perfectly and exactly as you planned in your practice swing. The goal is not, and I know this sounds ludicrous, to get it in the hole. Seve Ballesteros famously four putted at the Masters years ago and when quizzed later about it at the press conference he simply shrugged and said:

“I heet the ball – I miss,
I heet the ball – I miss,
I heet the ball – I miss,
I heet the ball – it goes in”

In other words he was happy that he did the very best he could with each putt. Even though he didn’t get it in, he had done his best. If you can commit to do the best putt you can and remove the consequences it greatly improves your confidence as you stand over the putt.

Likewise Tiger, at last years US Open, was faced with an extremely tricky putt at the end of the second or third round. It was a putt with great consequences and effectively kept him in the game. But the goal for him was again to remove the consequences and concentrate on committing to the putt. Afterwards he said he was saying the following to himself:

“Make sure you stay committed to it – make a pure stroke. If it plinkles in and plinkles out it doesn’t matter as long as I make a pure stroke.”

Notice the “it doesn’t matter“. If you don’t trust me – trust Tiger – this is really profound.

This technique made an enormous difference to my putting from six feet in and makes me feel invincible at the two to three feet range that causes so many people to panic.

Please try it the next time you’re in a pressure situation. And, as ever, let me know how you get on.

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