How To Improve Your Putting Technique

Putting is a stroke that should be part of every golfer’s arsenal, regardless of your experience with the game. It involves using a putter when you are situated either on or just off the green to hit the ball into the hole.

There are three known keys to achieving a solid golf technique: ensure the drive remains inbounds, take a single shot on the approach to the green, and end the shot with an unexpected two putts.

Sure, home putting drills can be of significant help if you’re looking to improve your overall putting ability. But it is also very important to get to the fundamentals of putting.

However, unlike other elements of golf, putting has its own set of demands that requires

A putter is a golf club used to make low-speed, short strokes to hit the ball into the cup on each hole. It is the only golf club in a golfer’s bag that will be needed on each hole, so learning how to be aware of your surroundings using this tool is super important. 

But before we get into anything, you must first understand how to correctly visualize the green. 

After all, setting up and alignment are two of the most crucial elements when it comes to putting. This means it is essential that you give yourself an adequate amount of time to set up the shot to yield successful results.

Golf is a game that revolves around patience and stillness, so taking your time on a green to read the putting service is very significant. Look at whether the green slopes up or down, whether there are any obstacles in the way, and whether it breaks left or right, for example, before you hit the golf ball.

Do A Horizontal Survey

 unique skills. This means that improving any type of putting technique entails having plenty of commitment, patience, and know-how to get the job done. 

This article contains some helpful tips and guidance to get you started on the process of improving your putting technique.

Visualize the GreenA horizontal read while playing golf is far more effective than a 

Set Up and Align Your Shot

Let’s get on to the more practical step: learning how to set up and align your shot. There are two crucial steps to this which we have outlined for you below.

1. Check Your Eye Position

It may not seem like a very big deal but your eyes play a huge role in the way that you see the line of a golf ball. When you change your eye position before putting the ball, you are altering the perspective of the line, too.    

Make sure your eyes are not beyond the ball as this will lead you to perfect your target more left than it is. You should also aim to have your eyes directly inside the golf ball to get a better feel for where the ball will land.

2. Focus On Your Head Position 

When playing golf, putting is one area where your head position has a considerable influence on the outcome. Once your head even slightly lifts, your shoulder position will change and so will the position of your putter.

This determines how accurately you can see the ball and your overall aim line.

Ideally, you will want to set up the shot with your forehead and chin level so you are looking vertically down at where the ball is. If your head is tilted too high, you will need to turn and lift it rather than allowing it to swivel, which can make it hard to square the putter at impact.

Try to keep your head centered and still as you putt and then wait to hear the sound of the ball dropping into the hole.vertical one. This means you cannot skip the side-to-side survey. Using this technique to scan the green allows you to have a much better (and far more accurate) sense of the slope.

Simply scanning the vertical distance from the golf ball to the hole and then back might seem helpful but it does not show an accurate representation of how much side-to-side tilt there truly is. This is where scanning horizontally becomes a good idea.

The technique is as follows: observe the final few feet of the putt from way behind the hole. Then, try to visualize having two coins on both sides of a line that runs from the golf ball to a cup, and move your eyes horizontally over both coins to check the slope of the green. 

Any player must switch their attention to ensure they apply the correct amount of speed and force to the putting stroke while also smoothly moving the putter back and forward in a motion that naturally flows from the shoulders.

3. Master Your Grip

One of the biggest and most common reasons for a missed putt is an open or closed putter on impact. The factor that influences the direction of your putter? The grip that you have!

It is a huge mistake to adjust your normal grip rather than implement an entirely new and effective putting grip, especially as a beginner golfer. Regardless, using a proper putting grip is the only true way that you are going to improve your putting technique in any case.

A good and highly conventional putting grip ensures that the handle of the grip runs through the wrist joints in both of your hands. As a result, when (or if) your wrists flick, the putter face will still be aimed at the hole. 

4. Know How to Aim Your Putter

Putting can look extremely complicated, despite being a pretty simple activity to do. This is because there is far more to putting than squarely setting up an intended target. 

Aiming a putter is all about ensuring your head and eyes are set in the correct position more than anything else. After you have squarely set up the target and have also decided whether to use a line or not, the movement will become far more automatic.

Allow your wrists and arms to relax, make sure to square your shoulders, and proceed to narrow down your line of sight. Then, take your shot.

Have Confidence and Patience

There’s something extremely crucial to improving your putting technique that we have not yet covered. What is it, we hear you ask? Having confidence and patience with the entire process.

Improving your putting technique involves plenty of patience and active practice. The greatest putters around the world can not only achieve flawless rhythm and alignment but can also judge distance accurately. They are also pretty confident with their movements and all the decisions they make.

How do they achieve this? Through plenty of practice with making putts.

Try to finish every session by sinking the highest number of short putts in a row as you can. Set a goal of anywhere from 15 to 20 but read every putt as if it was the only one.

Summary

That concludes this short guide on how to improve your putting technique! We hope you now have a better understanding of how to achieve this.

Like just about any other skill or hobby you want to pick up, improving your putting technique requires plenty of time, effort, and energy to adequately practice your skills. 

By developing your understanding of putting and how to carry out the movement correctly, you are setting yourself up for far more success when you are out and playing on or slightly off the green.