3 Quick Golf Putting Drills

Here are 3 golf putting drills that will have you putting like a champion in no time.

Maintaining a smooth putting swing

This drill will help maintain a smooth putting swing, which is the key to solid ball striking and good tempo.

Place a ball on the green and then put a small coin on the ground about 15 centimeters in front of the ball. Next, you need to place a tee in the ground about 30 centimeters behind the ball. Bring the club back until it just barely nicks the tee and then immediately go into your fore-swing. Keep your arms moving in a pendulum fashion and make sure that you keep your hands still.

Keeping the Face Square

This drill will have you playing with you putter face square in no time.

Again, place a ball on the practice green and place a coin 15 centimeters forward of the ball and a tee 30 centimeters behind the ball. Bring your putter back until it taps the tee and observe that the face is still square. Then swing it forward, again watching to ensure that the face stays square as it passes over the coin.

Achieving distance control

There are many different drills and practice exercises to help improve distance control, but one of the best is to simply stake out six tees, about one meters apart, with the last tee being 6 meters away. Then, concentrate on getting the ball to each of the tees consistently.

If the ball rolls a little past the tee, that’s OK. What you don’t want to see is the ball rolling well beyond the target tee, or stopping short. The real benefit of this drill is that you are not aiming at a flag or a hole. If you were, it could distract you and cause you to focus more on accuracy than distance. While it’s true that distance and accuracy must work together, there are times when they should be learned separately.