| I play golf with a regular group of guys who have a | | | | Here is one putting tip that helped me to visualize |
| net worth easy into seven figures, maybe more I | | | | how to read a breaking putt with 100% accuracy |
| never asked, but play a game of $2.00 skins with the | | | | every time. You still have to execute the putt - right |
| competitive intensity of a starving hyena fighting the | | | | direction, right speed - but learning this tip will at least |
| pack for the last scrap of meat. I mean, these guys | | | | give 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 are | | | | your head that you have to make a sharply breaking |
| never any shenanigans. It's just pure cutthroat golf all | | | | right-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 that | | | | imaginary 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 aches | | | | could drop a ball and have it roll directly into the hole |
| and pains you got up with that morning than pure | | | | without breaking the least, little bit left or right. Call |
| golfing skill. That means that week to week, or even | | | | that spot "X." |
| sometimes round to round, that your gross score | | | | Now 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 if | | | | your putt is X. You want the ball to reach X with just |
| you're playing bad off the tee or your irons are | | | | enough momentum so that it will continue under the |
| missing left and right that so long as you can get on | | | | force of gravity down the slope and into the hole |
| the green within one stroke of your closest | | | | just like the imaginary ball you dropped out of your |
| competitor that you are still in the skin - if you can | | | | hand earlier.. |
| putt. 300 yard drives are good for bragging about | | | | It's more difficult to see how this works without |
| but the guy you have to watch out for is the one | | | | having 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 they | | | | what I mean immediately the next time you step |
| flat out stink from tee to green. You don't need the | | | | onto a putting green. |
| perfect golf swing. You don't need the perfect | | | | Most of us are never going to have perfect golf |
| tempo. You don't even need an athletic body. All you | | | | swing no matter how many lessons we take, but |
| need to know is how to get the ball rolling in the right | | | | putting 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. | | | | |