Now the first thing you need to do to try and help improve the fact that you're leaving putts kind of short is improve the speed of your putts. Now speeded putting, it comes from a combination of factors. It’s obviously how hard you hit it. But more importantly and something which not a lot of people pay a lot of attention to is where on the club face you're actually striking it from. If you'll striking it from the center of the club, you have more of a likely chance to control the speed of that putt.

If you're hitting it from the toe or you are hitting it from the heel that will greatly reduce the amount of speed on that putt. For example if I just have a putt here, I’ll try and actually get this up to the hole as I hit. So I'm going to try and have a nice centered strike, putting up the hills. It’s going to curve around to the left just a wee bit. So that’s not bad, pretty much dead weight. Now what I am actually going to do is I am going to use the same pace of the putt. So I am going to put just as much power into it. Then now I'm going to strike it right out of the toe.

Now there is no difference in the amount of power that I put into that putt. But because I moved the strike from the center towards the toe, it was greatly reducing the amount of speed and the amount of power that I was able to transfer from the putt into the ball. So the first step if you're struggling with speed, try and get that strike centered. Lots of drills that you can use, but try, and find the middle of that putter face. The second one is obviously the amount of speed that you are putting in. If you're over this putt and you are not only hitting it kind of that long back and that long through and hardly putting any energy into it, obviously it’s going to be finishing short.

You need to be hitting these putts with a certain amount of confidence and really aiming for a point beyond the hole to actually try and get that putt up to. Well I thought that was going to be alright. Anyway speed, important.