Suck at Putting?

Your Golf Success Determined By This?

Here’s is an interesting article from Jeff Richmond from ConsistentGolf.com about putting and your success in golf…

*Putting Prediction Test by Jeff Richmond*

I was reading recently on golf.com an article that found how golfers perform on putts from 25 fee largely determined there handicap. I have a link to that article below. But here were the assumptions on 25 feet putts…

“…players who tend to leave themselves a two-footer or less on a 25-foot putt generally corresponds with a scratch handicap. Players who leave themselves between two feet and three feet generally shoot in the low 80s, while players who finish between three and four feet (or more) generally shoot in the 90s or above. But, of course, these are averages.”

In the article they then had a test to hit 10 different putts from 25 feet and measure your distance to the hole on average with these results:

Average 2 feet or closer: Scratch Player

Average 2 to 3 feet: Low 80’s shooter

Average 4 feet or outside: 90’s shooter

Then at the end of the article it say’s this…

“Find out where you stand, and then get to work!”

The logical thing to do is go out and do this test, see where you stand and then try and improve your performance from 25 feet.

But then on another hand, doing that is ridiculous!

Because many of these “putting tests” have come out over the years and what I see is golfers that are not good putters do the tests which confirms this and then they think they just have to work harder. Practice more.

Sadly, the more they practice they are just ingraining there bad putting habits and often times putt worse than they did before.

If you are not a very good putter here’s my piece of advice.

You have two options….