Putting drill

Hi folks

I have a DVD box collection regarding Tiger Woods and on one of the Discs he hold a clinic. After a while he addresses the subject of putting and goes on to describe his thoughts and feelings he has before he makes a putt. Now many people were sat in the audience expecting Tiger to go into lots of technical detail of how he makes a putt. I bet they were very suprised when he said " I putt to the picture. i take a mental picture of the hole , then i read the break. I take another picture . i get a feel for the length, i take another picture. I take my set up , i take one more picture and then i putt".
Tiger has a great understanding of how the brain reacts to images when dealing with a specific target.

Try this experiment folks, next time you are on the practice putting green.
Place two balls on the ground. With the first ball i want you to make your normal putt while thinking of nothing but the hole.
Now with the second ball , before you make a putt i want you to place a white tee peg two or 5 or 6 feet to the left of the hole. Now , line up your putt to the hole ,take your address. Just before you start your putt, take a quick look at the white tee peg then put towards the hole.
You will be amazed at how the ball, even though you lined up to the hole, is headding towards the white tee. This is the power that images have on the brain and this why Ian , myself , and others are constantly stressing to people that you have to have a secific target in your mind every time you play a shot in golf.

cheers
aft.

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Good drill Aft.
a good example of this is when you're out on the bike and want to drive between two strips on the road eg. between the markings of a Zebra crossing, if you look at the white markings you'll go over them everytime, if you switch them out of your mind you'll miss them.
cheers all,
Ian

I seem to always hit the PEOPLE in Zebra crossings ... perhaps I should switch them out of my mind!

(just kidding of course)

Hi Mox
Thats right mate,,, totally ignore them, especially young ladies in short skirts or it will end in tears

aft

well, don't come crying when it doesn't work.#
This guy in the pic, obviouly looked at the white lines. what a D...

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Aftford - another great peice of advice....keep them coming.h

I was made to picture the hole by my teacher when I could not get a thing out of the bunker and it transformed my bunker play without any technical change to my swing.

I have focused on the hole with my putting but never pictured the whole putt (e.g ball to hole).

On the practice green today I was lagging every long putt and holing double the amount of middle of the road putts. After my putting last week this was amazing....can't wait to get out on the course now!

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