Lefties Only Golf Tip: So one of the most soul destroying things as a coach to see, is to watch one of your players go through a period of flicking a putt. Particularly when they’ve got this lovely little pretty shot routine, nice and smooth, and then they set up to the putt and they just give it a bit of a flick. It’s almost like they’ve started to get the yips in that putting stoke. And the problem here is that a risky putting stroke is never going to deliver the consistent speed and line of the putter that we need to deliver the consistent speed and line of the ball.