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Golf Tips: Practice Drills to Improve your Putting Game

By Christopher O'Day

POTOMAC, MD - JUNE 27 : Tiger Woods hands his putter to his caddie Joe LaCava before teeing off on the sixth hole during the Pro-Am prior to the Quicken Loans National at TPC Potomac on June 27, 2018 in Potomac, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
POTOMAC, MD - JUNE 27 : Tiger Woods hands his putter to his caddie Joe LaCava before teeing off on the sixth hole during the Pro-Am prior to the Quicken Loans National at TPC Potomac on June 27, 2018 in Potomac, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /
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SOUTHAMPTON, NY – JUNE 13: A detailed view of two golf balls belonging to Andrew Johnston of England and Zach Johnson of the United States are seen during a practice round prior to the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on June 13, 2018 in Southampton, New York. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – JUNE 13: A detailed view of two golf balls belonging to Andrew Johnston of England and Zach Johnson of the United States are seen during a practice round prior to the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on June 13, 2018 in Southampton, New York. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images) /

For this drill, you are going to line up your balls in one foot increments, going away from the hole. So you won’t want them as close as the picture, instead, keeping them around one foot apart. You’ll end up with the first one a foot away, the second two feet away, and so on until you feel like stopping; albeit at a reasonable distance. If you want to space them a little more, that is fine as well.

For this example, we will say you are using seven golf balls, each about a foot and a half apart, and starting at one foot. So your last ball will be at 10 feet. Set a goal for yourself of completing the gauntlet of golf balls in 10 strokes. That would be “Par” for the round. Go through the exercise three times, and see what your final score comes out to be.

Under par? Make it a little more difficult by pushing the distance back a bit, or lowering your goal number. If you’re over par, do the opposite. This is another great drill for knocking in those gimme putts that so many people don’t hit. Learning the right speed on those eight to ten footers is going to help you as well. Missing by a foot and being confident on knocking it in is going to save you a lot of strokes and heartbeats.

For some added fun, play this against one of your friends. If you’re the type who likes to wager, throw a quarter or some small bet on the stroke difference when you get to the end.

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