AlanN,

I posted a few drills in 2 threads in the swing section. David Leadbetter is a great teacher. If your having trouble with line, try the laser drill, I'll post a picture of this thing later. It works the fastest in grooving a putting stroke. The metronome works great for tempo.

Keys to great putting, strict posture no slouching; tempo; relax from the shoulders and feel the rocking in the lower part of your back, it's not a twist just an up and down rock.

Think smooth!!! This is a stroke not a hit. The smoother the swing the more the ball will roll at the begining and not skid then roll.

Putting is very individual but there are some fundamentals to look for.

1. Squareness of the club, take your putter head and line up some tees (use a ruler to make sure they are straight) and make a tee tunnel for the club head to travel through stroke balls through the tunnel without hitting the tees.
Drill 2: take 2 tees and place them so if you stroke a ball through them the putter will hit both tees. Place a ball slightly ahead of them, try to contact both tees at the same time. If you hit one then the other your not square through impact.

2. Speed - Train your brain to hit ball 1/2 a putter length beyond the hole. 98% of the balls that are short will not go in, and most people can make a 17"putt coming back.
You can hit uphill putts harder bacause more of the back of the cup is exposed above the front of the cup. Conversely, downhill putts should die into the cup. Hard hits will travel over the cup.

3. Front of the hole location - what you see with your eyes as the front of the cup is not the front of the cup the ball sees on a sidehill putt. When you are lining up a side hill putt track the ball with your eyes in the arc you want the ball to travel. The ball will start to break immediately. You start the putt on a line to travel on an arc. Take 2 pencils with a string and mark the starting line of a sidehill putt, putt under the string on the line. You will see the line and the arc better.

Let'em roll,

GolfBald

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