A Simple Golf Tip That Made Me a Better Putter

I play golf with a regular group of guys who have aHere is one putting tip that helped me to visualize
net worth easy into seven figures, maybe more Ihow to read a breaking putt with 100% accuracy
never asked, but play a game of $2.00 skins with theevery time. You still have to execute the putt - right
competitive intensity of a starving hyena fighting thedirection, right speed - but learning this tip will at least
pack for the last scrap of meat. I mean, these guysgive you a fighting chance of holing the putt.
hate to lose. I am the same way, so I love it.You are standing at your ball on the green. Picture in
Everybody plays by the rules of golf. There areyour head that you have to make a sharply breaking
never any shenanigans. It's just pure cutthroat golf allright-to-left putt. Walk from your ball to the left side
the time.of the hole drawing in your head the whole time an
We are all getting a little older so I think thatimaginary line running from the center of the hole
anybody's game on any particular day, mine included,directly up the slope to furthest point where you
is probably going to depend more on whatever achescould drop a ball and have it roll directly into the hole
and pains you got up with that morning than purewithout breaking the least, little bit left or right. Call
golfing skill. That means that week to week, or eventhat spot "X."
sometimes round to round, that your gross scoreNow walk back to your ball while drawing an
can vary by 10 strokes, or sometimes even more.imaginary line from X to your ball. The target for
I tell you that to emphasize why I figure that even ifyour putt is X. You want the ball to reach X with just
you're playing bad off the tee or your irons areenough momentum so that it will continue under the
missing left and right that so long as you can get onforce of gravity down the slope and into the hole
the green within one stroke of your closestjust like the imaginary ball you dropped out of your
competitor that you are still in the skin - if you canhand earlier..
putt. 300 yard drives are good for bragging aboutIt's more difficult to see how this works without
but the guy you have to watch out for is the onehaving a picture or a diagram to look at, but if you
that never ever three putts.just remember the concept you will see exactly
Now, anybody can be a good putter even if theywhat I mean immediately the next time you step
flat out stink from tee to green. You don't need theonto a putting green.
perfect golf swing. You don't need the perfectMost of us are never going to have perfect golf
tempo. You don't even need an athletic body. All youswing no matter how many lessons we take, but
need to know is how to get the ball rolling in the rightputting is a learned skill and anybody can become a
direction and at the right speed. And that, my friend,good putter if they learn the right technique.
is a learned skill.