It's common for many golfers to have good days and bad days on the putting greens. One day you feel like you can make everything you look at and the next day it feels like you've never putted before in your life. When you are having one of those tough days, there are a couple helpful tips that will get you back on track more quickly.
The two tips I recommend to get your game back on track is to focus on your speed and make sure you are putting with your shoulders. The first tip of focusing on your speed will help you in more than one way. When you have a putt, your goal will be to hit the ball the correct speed. This way if you miss your putt, you will have an easy tap in for your next one.
Simply focusing on your speed will automatically allow you to get a better feel for it. You can also make practice putting strokes trying to feel the speed and then copy your practice stroke in your actual stroke. The other way focusing on speed helps you is you will actually have a better chance of making putts this way. When the golf ball is rolling at the right speed, it has almost 3 times as much of a chance of going in the hole. It can die in the cup from either side and it's getting all the way to the hole. Leaving putts short obviously will not allow them to go in. Hitting your putts too hard will not give them much chance of going in either. Sometimes if your line is dead on, you can hit a putt slightly too hard and it'll still go in. But if your putt is hit too hard and it rolls over the right or left edge of the cup, it's probably not going in.
The next tip is to make sure you are using your shoulders to make the putting stroke. The hands arms, and shoulders work together as one unit in the putting stroke. Sometimes a golfer can get overactive with their hands and arms and forget to make a good move with the shoulders. In a proper putting stroke the shoulders make the stroke and the hands and arms just hang on for extra stability and control.
Using the shoulders correctly in this way also helps to eliminate opening or closing of the putter face which can push or pull the putt offline. Too much hand or wrist action can lead to pushing and pulling putts because the face isn't square at impact. The putter face can open and close slightly, but this really happens automatically when you are making a correct move with your shoulders.
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