Putting Drills

As you want to lower your golf scores, everyone knows that improving your putting is the quickest way to lower your scores. Putting drills can keep practice fun to do by yourself or to make a game of it with your friends. In addition, good putting drills will keep you on the right track to improve.

Here are the best putting drills that we use with our students to help them achieve their goals:

Finish drill
Believe it or not, there are putting drills that you can do anywhere as long as you have a putter. You do not even need a golf ball or a putting training aid. Simply set up as you are getting ready to stroke a putt. Make your stroke and hold your finish for three seconds. It is important to notice that you hands are ahead of the crease on your left pant leg (if you putt right handed). This will insure that you have accelerated the putter through the impact position. In addition, it is important to make sure the putter shaft is still vertical or your hands are over the putter head.

Lag drill
When it comes to putting for distance, we all tend to miss longer putts more short and long as opposed to right and left. This is one of my favorite putting drills. Place a tee anywhere where the putting green and fringe meet. Begin by hitting putts from varying distances from 10 to 50 feet towards the tee. The goal is to stop your golf ball as close to the fringe as possible. Challenge a friend or challenge yourself by continuing the putting drill until you can stop so many balls in side of a certain distance. This will be determined by your current skill level. 

Pull back drill
The pull back drill is one of the great putting drills or games to play with friends. Pick a set number of holes to play. Flip a tee to see who gets to pick the first location. Each player will keep track of their strokes. The catch is that when you miss any putt, you pull the ball back away from the hole the length of your putter. You next putt is to be stroked from the new distance. Obviously, this will make the short putts during your next round seem much easier.

Ladder drill
The ladder drill is one of those putting drills that you may already do and not even know that you do it! You can do this drill on the practice putting green or on an indoor putting mat. Take five golf balls and drop them in a straight line every three feet from the hole. So every three feet you will have a ball from three feet to fifteen feet from the hole. Now start at either end of the line and work your way up and down the ladder. If you miss a putt, start all over. Again, this drill will put some pressure on you as you get closer to the end and will make the putts on the golf course much easier.

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