What is good distance control golf putting drill 1 (Video) - by Pete Styles
What is good distance control golf putting drill 1 (Video) - by Pete Styles

If there is one piece of advice to improve your putting and therefore to improve pretty much any parts of your game and particularly to improve your score on the golf course, it would be, "Be better at distance putting." So from the long distance on the putting green, control how hard and how far you hit the putt. Every time you 3-Putt, it will be because you had the distance control wrong. Very rarely the golf has missed putts, 3 feet left or 3 feet right. It just doesn’t happen unless these are very very severely breaking slope or you misread it. But more often in and out, the hitting putts will go 3 foot long, 3 foot short and therefore, 3 putting because the distance control was wrong. So if you can improve your stroke and improve your distance control and good distance control would be getting the ball to roll up to the hole but making sure it doesn’t roll more than. Let’s say, one part its length which is about 3 feet. So if the hole is here and your ball rolls up, we wanted to get to the hole. We don’t want it to roll more than 3 feet pass. So the middle of that area, that end zone where you should try and stop the ball is about 18 inches. If you can hit the ball about 18 inches pass the hole, that’s good distance control. It gives the ball a chance to go in but it should minimize the amount of 3 putts you have. So during this next section of drills and exercises, we’ll focus on how you can get your putts to consistently stop 18 inches pass the hole.

2012-11-30

If there is one piece of advice to improve your putting and therefore to improve pretty much any parts of your game and particularly to improve your score on the golf course, it would be, “Be better at distance putting.” So from the long distance on the putting green, control how hard and how far you hit the putt. Every time you 3-Putt, it will be because you had the distance control wrong. Very rarely the golf has missed putts, 3 feet left or 3 feet right. It just doesn’t happen unless these are very very severely breaking slope or you misread it. But more often in and out, the hitting putts will go 3 foot long, 3 foot short and therefore, 3 putting because the distance control was wrong. So if you can improve your stroke and improve your distance control and good distance control would be getting the ball to roll up to the hole but making sure it doesn’t roll more than. Let’s say, one part its length which is about 3 feet. So if the hole is here and your ball rolls up, we wanted to get to the hole. We don’t want it to roll more than 3 feet pass. So the middle of that area, that end zone where you should try and stop the ball is about 18 inches. If you can hit the ball about 18 inches pass the hole, that’s good distance control. It gives the ball a chance to go in but it should minimize the amount of 3 putts you have. So during this next section of drills and exercises, we’ll focus on how you can get your putts to consistently stop 18 inches pass the hole.