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Golf Putting Tips - Reading Break and more...

 

Robert Cotter of Instant Golfby Robert Cotter (About the Author)
Professional Golf Ball Engineer
Director of Golf Swing Instruction, Instant Golf®

As I write this, this Paula Creamer has buried a breaking 75 ft putt to win the HSBC Woman's Champions event in Singapore for her 10th LPGA win and first since the 2010 U.S. Woman's Open. She ran across the green with arms in the air after the putt dropped and then celebrated her incredible playoff win with some fellow competitors.

On the PGA Tour, 24 year old Russell Henley has chased down overnight leader Rory Mcllroy and 2 others on the 1st playoff hole at the Honda Classic. Henley chipped and putted brilliantly all week having several exciting chip-ins from long distance on the difficult PGA National Course in Florida. He kept pace with Rory's solid putting all week, and was able to top his fellow 24 year old opponent in "extra innings" for career win #2.

Did you know the PGA Tour leader in Putts Per 18 Hole Round averages only 27.33 putts?! While the worst player averages 31.12 putts per round. Some big name golfers at the top of the great putters list include 2014 winners Webb Simpson and red hot Jimmy Walker. However, Vijay Singh, Lucas Glover, and David Toms sit at the bottom of the list with their poor putting.

The reality is that most recreational golfers would be very happy to be at that 31 putts per round number. In fact most golfers who report into me with their numbers are at about 34-36 putts per round.

Are you keeping this stat in your own game?

If not, it will really help your scores. Put another way, which sounds better?:

A total score of 101 or 96, a 91 or an 87, how about 78 vs. 82. Or may be a 69 vs. 71?!

This is the real potential of simply lowering your Putts Per Round even slightly. And the confidence that spills over into the rest of your game by monitoring your on green activity is incredible!

The good news is, in order to improve your putting stats, you don't need to:

  • Hit the ball further.
  • Revamp your golf swing.
  • Change your putting stroke.
  • Buy a new putter.
  • Or spend time in the gym!

So what's the fastest way to make more putts? In other words, what separates great putters from average or poor putters?

Speed control is one answer and very important.

But in this report, I am going to address an even bigger, more tangible aspect of putting.

Recreational golfers have a heck of a time:

Reading the Correct Amount of Break on Putts.

The vast majority of rec golfers and even less proficient Tour pros simply do not read break correctly, or perhaps more importantly, do not play enough break!

If you don't drain it, missing a breaking putt on the high side of the cup is referred to missing on the pro side. The alternative is missing on the low or amateur side. This is killing your scores.

When putting, stroking the ball for entrance on the "high" side of the hole is a good habit to add to your golf putting game.

I'll show you why you can make 50% more breaking putts, lower your Putts Per Round stat, and slash your total score and handicap in a jiffy by focusing on the high side.

Let's look at a typical breaking putt:

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Now for any breaking putt, there are 3 potential entrance paths or gates into the hole. On the right to left breaking putt above and below, most amateurs are limiting themselves to entrance via paths #2 and #3:

If you under read the break (typical for weekend golfers) and your ball is heading for the hole, you can only enter the hole in those 2 sections, i.e., the middle or the lower side of the cup.

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You see, poor putters are simply not reading enough break and have effectively eliminated the top or high side of the hole for ball entry (#1).

The top putters in history are focused on gate #1. If you are focused on that big gate #1, any under read or poor speed putt still has a great chance of entering the hole by the middle or low (#2,#3) paths.

That's because a component of gravity is pulling a ball on the high side toward the hole.

However, on weak putts, gravity is pulling the ball away form the hole. It's over.. too late.. the ball can't roll back up hill!

You have 3 (not 2) entrance paths into the bottom of the cup.

Use Them All!

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The upper part of the cup is an open door for that ball. You see it all the time with good putters on the PGA, LPGA, and Champion's Tour.

I can still visualize Ben Crenshaw (perhaps the best of all) crawling that ball in the upper side of the cup. It's what champions in every generation have done... and you can too.

 

So why do amateurs fail to play enough break? There are a few reasons. Here are some top ones:

 Anxiety!  It is universally understood that putts with a lot of break are more difficult. They become even more difficult if winning a skin, league match, or a cold Coke is at stake.

Anxiety and apprehension almost invariably cause contraction in the body, especially in the small muscles. This almost always leads to deceleration of the arms, shaft, and club head. That putt will be missed on the low side, if it even gets to the hole.

We saw this a few years ago at The Open Championship when Tom Watson missed an 8 foot par putt on 18 which would have earned him a 6th Open title. Unfortunately, the ball never even reached the hole, curling away weakly to the right.

Here's how to make more breaking putts by reducing anxety and it's effects:

- Choose your grip pressure and maintain it through the stroke. This will keep the putter face consistent throughout the stroke.

- Smile, yes smile before an important putt (you can turn away from your group and do this if you need to). Smiling elicits a relaxation response throughout the body... it is a tested fear of public speaking trick that works.

- Putt like you are not afraid to miss. This will prevent you from trying to steer the putter or regrip during the stroke. Set your plan, stick to it and just execute.

 

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 Practice - Sound obvious? It's not. Weekend golfers simply don't have a lot of big breaking putts from which to draw experience (especially ones that were holed). So practice at a facility that has a practice green and seek out the breaking putts on the green.

Hit 3 balls per hole, or until one drops. If one drops, hit another from the same spot as that will reinforce your successful execution. On the course, you will have a wealth of breaking putt success to draw from. It will have an incredible effect on your putting game.

 

Play More Break This is the most critical strategy, especially if you have difficulty with 1 or 2 above. Amateurs simply do not play enough break. Under reading putts is an epidemic.

Less is not more when it comes to break. I would suggest doubling your break allowance (yes, 2X) especially on longer putts. Again, most putts will slide by on the low side do to a combination of inexperience and anxiety.

Playing more break requires little more than using your exact technique and making an alignment adjustment to start the ball on a new line. Let gravity do the rest of the work.

In doing so you are one huge step closer to putting like the best putters on the game.

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