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Eliminating Those Three Puts

By Dean Sklar, PGA Professional

Most golfers couple of feet, quite a few times a round I play and over time the pressure and stress can with – and build. Can’t it? thinking about it, A quick look at some of the putting most of the golfers statistics on the PGA Tour will show you that that I have given the best (not the worst) putters on tour are putting lessons making an average of just over 50% of their to – struggle with 3 putting on one or more putts under five feet in length. Just think greens during a round. about that statistic for a minute – just over

Below are two great putting tips that I half – are you surprised at that? These are most often use… the best putters out there. They have spent

It’s so simple, easy to do and effective years honing their putting skills and they are that it staggers me that golfers don’t all do it, playing tour events on near perfect greens but I know for a fact that most golfers have every week. What are your chances? no idea about it. But when it comes to the green, for some

First though, let’s understand why most reason golfers who rely on measurements golfers have 3 or more putts on a green. and devices to provide valuable data as to 95% of the time, it’s because they don’t get how hard to hit their shots down the fairway the distance/strength/speed – whatever you and to the green, suddenly expect for some want to call it – of their first putt right. Which unknown reason that their brain will know ends up leaving them with a putt of a few how hard to hit their putt. But what has it got feet to go or coming back. to go on? For most of you nothing. For me, I “So what?” you might say. It’s only a few feet. True. But for most golfers, it’s a know the length of every putt before I hit it – gained from pacing the length of the putt as I wander around the green looking at the slopes and borrows. This is a standard practice you should do before addressing the ball to putt.

I generally go around behind the hole for every putt I hit and it’s walking back from there to the ball when I take the distance. Other times, I make sure I take my clubs around past the hole so that as I walk back to my ball to putt I count the paces. You’ll figure out what works best for you. Over a few months it will become second nature and you will build a library of distances and the associated strength to hit them so well, that you will seldom – if ever – 3 putt again.

Always seek the advice of your local PGA Professional for the best results.

n PGA Professional Dean Sklar is a member of the Quarter Century Club of the PGA of America, an elite group of members who have served the PGA with honor and pride for 25 years. If you would like to talk to Dean about your golf game, contact him at Dean. Sklar@FloridaMoves.com or the Rose and Dean Sklar Real Estate Group at Coldwell Banker, 1760 Bell Tower Lane in Weston, 954-389-6197, or online at www.WestonFloridaUSA.com.

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