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Originally Posted by bdbl  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  .
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? |
most of my chips will be around the 5 or 6 feet from the pin, but i am not converting this into a good score because i miss 90% of my putts from this range.so on an average day , i will 3 putt once, 1 putt once and two putt 16 times. but of those 16 two putts, at least 5 would be from 6 feet, some to save par, some to save bogey, but i don't make any, so although my total is 36 putts, it should be much better, how much is the question i am asking, and my new putter is on the horizon!!!