Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
Here we’re going to look at how to deal with long breaking putts when you’re out on the golf course and on the green. Now there is nothing to fear or be worried about at all as long as you know how to handle them correctly. So the first thing you want to do is have a look at the break on the green. Now all the break means is, the slope. So if you imagine you have a very sloped green a very undulating green if you putted the ball or just rolled the ball out of your hand directly at the hole, you’d notice that the ball would curve and it wouldn’t stay going straight at the hole because the slope’s on the green will move the ball to the right or to the left. And that’s all that break is; it’s just the slope on the green. So the best way to deal with looking at big breaking putts and long breaking putts is before you actually putt, just crouch down directly behind the ball so you’ll see all the pros and the better golfers just crouching down, getting as low to the ground as possible and then all they’re doing is looking from the ball towards the hole to see exactly what the slope’s doing, if the slope’s – if the green is tilting left to right with the slope or it’s tilting right to left with the slope.
And break the putt down into sections. So put your eyes onto the golf ball and then look at what happens for the first few feet of the putt. Does the green make the ball move left? Does it make it move right? Once you’ve worked out what the slope’s doing there then move to the next section of the putt and the next section of the putt. So break the longer putt down into different sections and just look. Let your eyes follow the green, follow the slopes and have a look at what happens. Once you’ve decided what you think happens on that green with the slopes the best drill to then follow would be, I would just roll the ball out with your hand. So if you pit the ball up and just roll it along at the hole and then just note it, roll it directly at the hole and notice how the ball curves. What we want to do is, when you hit the putt, we want the end of that curve to actually finish in the hole and if we look at –roll in the ball straight out of the hole and it misses, we can see the shape, we can see the break on the putt but obviously we don’t want it to miss. So what we’re going to do is, we’re now going to aim more to the left or more to the right depending on the break but so that it allows the ball to curve into the hole. And that’s the best way to deal with long breaking putts. Stand directly behind the ball, crouch down, look at the slopes. But then to improve your green reading skills, just roll the ball out of your hands towards the hole and see if what actually happens is what you pictured. 2014-04-09 Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
Here we’re going to look at how to deal with long breaking putts when you’re out on the golf course and on the green. Now there is nothing to fear or be worried about at all as long as you know how to handle them correctly. So the first thing you want to do is have a look at the break on the green. Now all the break means is, the slope. So if you imagine you have a very sloped green a very undulating green if you putted the ball or just rolled the ball out of your hand directly at the hole, you’d notice that the ball would curve and it wouldn’t stay going straight at the hole because the slope’s on the green will move the ball to the right or to the left. And that’s all that break is; it’s just the slope on the green. So the best way to deal with looking at big breaking putts and long breaking putts is before you actually putt, just crouch down directly behind the ball so you’ll see all the pros and the better golfers just crouching down, getting as low to the ground as possible and then all they’re doing is looking from the ball towards the hole to see exactly what the slope’s doing, if the slope’s – if the green is tilting left to right with the slope or it’s tilting right to left with the slope.
And break the putt down into sections. So put your eyes onto the golf ball and then look at what happens for the first few feet of the putt. Does the green make the ball move left? Does it make it move right? Once you’ve worked out what the slope’s doing there then move to the next section of the putt and the next section of the putt. So break the longer putt down into different sections and just look. Let your eyes follow the green, follow the slopes and have a look at what happens. Once you’ve decided what you think happens on that green with the slopes the best drill to then follow would be, I would just roll the ball out with your hand. So if you pit the ball up and just roll it along at the hole and then just note it, roll it directly at the hole and notice how the ball curves.
What we want to do is, when you hit the putt, we want the end of that curve to actually finish in the hole and if we look at –roll in the ball straight out of the hole and it misses, we can see the shape, we can see the break on the putt but obviously we don’t want it to miss. So what we’re going to do is, we’re now going to aim more to the left or more to the right depending on the break but so that it allows the ball to curve into the hole. And that’s the best way to deal with long breaking putts. Stand directly behind the ball, crouch down, look at the slopes. But then to improve your green reading skills, just roll the ball out of your hands towards the hole and see if what actually happens is what you pictured.
