Brian, if you can get someone to teach touch without being in person, let me know!

Hitting them left and right I can offer a solution to. The problem is that you're twisting the face of the club before impact. This results in pulls (closed) and pushes (open). You can see it for yourself - grab your putter, put a penny down 2 feet away as your target. Now, really close the face - I mean, set it up 45° to the pull side of target. Now, swing your putter so that the swing path is directly at the penny. Watch the ball pull. Do the same thing, but 45° open. Watch the ball push. Do the same thing, but square. Watch the ball roll over the penny. This is the key to starting to trust your stroke. Learn to putt so that you send the ball over that mark that's 12-24" in front of your ball. This will get you starting the ball on your chosen line much more often.

As for feel to dial in distance, GregJWillis offers a putting drill with tees to give you a mechanical method to gauge distance. The only way I've been able to gain feel is to practice putting - seeing how far the ball goes for a given swing. My method for this started strongly with Greg's drill - taking the putter head 'so far' back, then swinging through, and seeing how far the ball went. Then taking it back further, and seeing how much farther the ball goes. Doing this mechanical drill helped to ingrain some feel.

Now my main problem is reading the green. I play too much break - missing a lot of putts on the high side. I've also been out of practice for 4 months... so I'm sure once I start playing regularily again, I'll be fine.

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