Short Putting Makes the Difference
By Darell Mckissick

In the grand scheme of golf, missing a five foot putt is far worse than missing a fairway or a green. There is no recovery from a missed putt, but you can almost always recover from a bad drive or iron shot. At the very least, you have a possibility of saving the stroke.

I call a short putt anything inside of ten feet. On the course you may refer to them as the putts you should have made. You feel disappointed when you miss them.

There are two ways to improve on your short putting. First is to become a better lag putter and chipper. That way your short putts are that much shorter. If you consistently lag to within two feet from 30 feet, you will make most all of your short putts. If you chip the ball three feet instead of 8 feet away, you will make more.

The other way is to putt with target awareness. When you are close to the hole, the nature of the game changes. You are no longer trying to hit a general area. You have a very specific place you want that ball to end up.

As with any other game that requires you to hit a target, you will not play your best unless you are focused on the target during your attempt to hit it. Whether you are shooting skeet or throwing a baseball, you need to focus on whatever you are aiming to hit.

Putting is a target game that is not generally played as one by the golfing masses. It seems as though common sense leaves the golfing world when they walk onto the putting green. Putting is not that hard once you realize what you are trying to do.

Why not spend the next few minutes learning a better way to putt

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