Golf Putting Tips
By Kerry Graylor
While there are many golf putting tips that you can find to help you out, one of the keys to good putting is improving your aim. If you can send the ball straight toward the hole you will not have to compensate for your tendency and contact with the ball will be better.
A good way to straighten your aim is to draw two parallel lines on your golf balls about a half inch apart, and two lines on the top of your putter that curve and come together to meet the lines on the ball. Practice your shots until the lines on your putter meet the lines on the ball exactly, every time. This is a great way to improve your putting and does not break any USGA rules, unless they changed them since I last looked!
If your putting is getting into a rut, consider trying a new putter. However attached you are to your trusty putter, you might find you are more accurate with a two-ball or three-ball putter. Take an opportunity to give various putters a fair trial before making up your mind.
The advice of the professionals is always to go for the strong, bold putt. It is better to have the ball overshoot than stop short of the hole. Although a more gentle putt may be needed on a smooth fast green, it is still important not to make it too delicate. A bold stroke is certainly required for a shaggier green and if you play boldly in general, you will find you sink the ball more often.
Remember that an accurate putt that would have gone a few inches further will fall into the hole, but an accurate putt that is a few inches short can never go in. Tests by Dave "Professor Putt" Pelz, using a special golf putting robot, showed that the putt most likely to go down is one that is firm enough to have carried the ball as much as 17 inches beyond the hole.
Another advantage of bold putting is that when you overshoot the hole you can see how it breaks and this will give you an edge when you make the return putt. You will not learn much that is useful from a short putt. You will also learn more about your style from longer putts. For example you are more likely to see if you are consistently going to the right or left.
So putt boldly and find more golf putting tips from the professionals in a top golf DVD.
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