Without a doubt the easiest and most obvious way to improve your scoring is by becoming more effective with the most precious club in your bag … the putter. Putting success will flow on to increase your overall confidence, improve your green-reading skills and help your understanding of full swing mechanics.
Putting successfully enables you to capitalise on good ball-striking and helps you recover when your tee-to-green shots are less than ideal.
The key to great putting is control over the ball’s distance and direction. You must learn the correct technique to consistently control the roll on the ball if you want success on the greens. Even if you are fortunate enough to have all day to practise, you can fast-track the learning process by understanding and copying what the great putters do and train-in good technique.
Poor technique produces anxiety in putting because the clubhead returns to the ball at impact with an inconsistent speed and angle. If not corrected these issues may develop into the yips; then you will have no alternative but to make drastic changes.
Most golf swing flaws occur before the swing has even started. Putting is not natural (whatever that means) so great putters have learned and trained-in the correct fundamentals.
The logical theory of putting is to swing back and through on