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Originally Posted by BrianW  Don't beat yourself up too much, 34 - 36 putts per round is quite good.
A golf pro once told me that average tour players putt 3 foot shots with a 75% success rate, 6 foot with a 50% and 10 foot 25%. Just get it close so your next put is a short one and practice. |
As a fellow 22 handicapper I find that the key is not so much the putting (though obviously it can blow hot and cold) but the chips and short pitches.
Next time you are out keep a track how many times you leave your self a genuinely makeable first putt, i.e. how many times you chip / pitch to within 8 foot [imo the undulating 25 footer with 5 foot of break doesn't count as a genuine chance
- though its a hoot when they drop].
I tend to think that 34 - 36 is quite good for someone with a handicap like Brian who's GIR stats are better than ours but, to be honest, not for us; because of the number of time a round we have a chip or little pitch on then I think "par" for us is 1.75 putts per hole or around 32 ppr.
If you really are leaving yourself a lot of real chances and not converting enough then then there was a thread quite recently on putting drills with some pretty good ones but you might find the short term answer to fewer putts lies in a short game lesson.
Longer term you need to drill the drive 280 down the middle and hit your wedge dead - that will do the trick better than anything else
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Incidentally I'd say that 9 out of 10 of my three putts are when the first was for birdie
- I wonder what that says about my mental strength?