Lefties Only Golf Tip: Because I see one thing that causes more missed putts than anything else on the golf course, there has to be a deceleration during the stroke. Now deceleration is the slowing down of the golf club, that doesn’t just mean that the putts are going to finish short of the hole, it could also mean the putts are going to finish left or right of the hole. Because like riding a bicycle, if you are riding a bicycle nice and quickly, that easy to go in a straight line. As soon as you ride that bicycle, really slowly, you get a bit wobbly and it starts to go offline and the same thing happens with a putting stroke.