Putting Tempo, Drill Ingrains Fluid Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles
Putting Tempo, Drill Ingrains Fluid Stroke (Video) - by Pete Styles

Another really good key to being a good putter is to have a good tempo in your stroke, make your stroke nice and fluid, nice and even without too many speeding up or slowing down parts to it.

So here is the two really good exercises to make you putt better with better tempo. Start setting yourself up with about a 3-foot putt and then take a coin or a ball marker and just place it in the back of your putter, particularly if you got a flat section at the back of this putter like a cavity back putter this works really nicely as a drill. So I place my coin in the back of my putter there, carefully setting up to the golf ball just keeping the coin in position. And then as I make my putting stroke just on a 3-foot putt if it’s nice and even nice and smooth. The coin will stay in the back of the putter. However if I place a ball down and I make a putt, that maybe has a quicker tempo or is a bit too jerky in the stroke, you will see the coin will fall off as I made my stroke so that was a bit gabby, so place the coin back of the putter and just practice, rocking that putter backwards and forwards nice and smooth and evenly. People often find this easy to do when there is no ball there and as soon as he put a ball there they jerk and putt the stroke to hit it and it falls off and that’s going to be a good little tip there for you if you can smooth that stroke out to improve your putting tempo.

Another good little exercise for you take another golf ball and just focus on making sure you make good quality of strike on the ball, but you actually need to flick the putter over this way again you don’t really need a target to aim out there but just focus on the good hitting area. Now if you have got a mallets or a blade it had putter you should have a little toe end to weigh them out, you want to try and make the best contact possible on the toe end to hit the ball straight as you can, even though it’s a curved edge. So if I can turn that over and then just make a nice solid putting stroke here, rocking that back and rocking back through and make sure I am hitting the right path. If my stroke has too many wiggle and wobbles and you will actually find it quite awkward to hit from that very small hitting area on the toe end so that’s another little tip for you, too great drills just to improve your putting tempo.

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Another really good key to being a good putter is to have a good tempo in your stroke, make your stroke nice and fluid, nice and even without too many speeding up or slowing down parts to it.

So here is the two really good exercises to make you putt better with better tempo. Start setting yourself up with about a 3-foot putt and then take a coin or a ball marker and just place it in the back of your putter, particularly if you got a flat section at the back of this putter like a cavity back putter this works really nicely as a drill. So I place my coin in the back of my putter there, carefully setting up to the golf ball just keeping the coin in position. And then as I make my putting stroke just on a 3-foot putt if it’s nice and even nice and smooth. The coin will stay in the back of the putter. However if I place a ball down and I make a putt, that maybe has a quicker tempo or is a bit too jerky in the stroke, you will see the coin will fall off as I made my stroke so that was a bit gabby, so place the coin back of the putter and just practice, rocking that putter backwards and forwards nice and smooth and evenly. People often find this easy to do when there is no ball there and as soon as he put a ball there they jerk and putt the stroke to hit it and it falls off and that’s going to be a good little tip there for you if you can smooth that stroke out to improve your putting tempo.

Another good little exercise for you take another golf ball and just focus on making sure you make good quality of strike on the ball, but you actually need to flick the putter over this way again you don’t really need a target to aim out there but just focus on the good hitting area. Now if you have got a mallets or a blade it had putter you should have a little toe end to weigh them out, you want to try and make the best contact possible on the toe end to hit the ball straight as you can, even though it’s a curved edge. So if I can turn that over and then just make a nice solid putting stroke here, rocking that back and rocking back through and make sure I am hitting the right path. If my stroke has too many wiggle and wobbles and you will actually find it quite awkward to hit from that very small hitting area on the toe end so that’s another little tip for you, too great drills just to improve your putting tempo.