Mental Golf Lesson - Putt for Dough

Putt for Dough

Now you have taken your tee shots and driving to the next level, and you have a nice fluid iron swing, you are now going to make sure that your golf putting game complements your new found skills in driving the ball regularly in the fairway and playing nice silky smooth iron shots.

Are you a good putter? Well you will be after this next golf instruction drill and mental technique.

Better putting is all about feel and touch and this in itself is difficult to practice.

If you could putt just by touch and feel do you think your putting would be more consistent. You bet it will and i am going to tell you exactly how you can do this.

You need to do this drill with a friend and take turns each to try it out.

You can also add a little competition between both of you to make it even more interesting.

You need to set up a point on the green to putt from which is ten yards from your target.

Now your target is not a hole but a grid.

You need to set up 5 zones, each of them a yard wide.

So the first zone will be between 10 and 11 yards from you
the second zone will be between 11 and 12 yards from you
the third zone will be between 12 and 13 yards from you
the fourth zone will be between 13 and 14 yards from you
the fifth zone will be between 14 and 15 yards from you

You can set up these zones by placing a series of tee pegs in the ground.

Now you need to take ten balls and place them down ten yards from your first zone whilst your friend stands at the end of the last zone.

Now here is where it gets interesting.

When you make your backswing on the putt, your friend will shout out one,two,three,four or five.

Now you have already started your backswing so you have no time to adjust and must hit the ball to the correct zone by touch and feel.

This drill will really help you because as you get used to it you will concentrate on your stroke more than visualising the distance.
This drill will do two key things to improve and get you putting for dough.

1. When you are playing for real you will be able to judge distance much easier based on your practice with this drill and using your feel for the putt.

2. In your mind you will have so much confidence with your stroke that this will relate into more two putts and a lowering of your overall score.

Have great fun with this and enjoy your golf practice

Richard