So if you have decided the cross handed method is the way to go, you’ve adapted your putting stroke, and you started to groove in those fundamentals, and you are starting to see some good results; now we really want to practice this new technique. We want to make it really solid, really comfortable, so this is your putting technique and you don’t ever feel like you want to go back to your old technique, but you are going to stick with the new one.

Now you can do the same drills, in the same putting exercises that you've always done on your standing putting stroke, obviously they will work just as well with the cross handed method but one little extra tip that I might give you is just focus on distance control that’s probably going to be the biggest thing that changes, when you change the way you hold the club and we all know that distance control is actually the primary reason why a golfer might struggle with putting and why a golfer particularly might three putt.

So one of the best distance control drills and exercises I can give you is, actually to stand on the putting green but don’t focus on a hole; a hole will instinctively make you focus too much on the alignment and less on the speed, but instead focus on the fringe of the green. So I am going to try in roll putts nicely up to the fringe of the green, and just because I’ve got an end zone rather than an actual flag, it helps me focus on getting a good strike and trying to roll the ball up to the fringe of the green.

Next one is slightly uphill, and a little bit slow. It's 12 inches short of the fringe, so I can try and just hit the ball. The next one a little bit harder, roll it up a little bit further, get it near to the fringe of the green but purely by focusing on my distance control, to a fringe, to an end zone, it stops me focusing on my alignment and I think that’s the best way I would encourage you to adapt your practice routines to incorporate the new cross handed putting method