Putting tips - Reading the greens
- Thursday, 1 December 2011
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Golf Monthly spoke to Top 25 Coach Paul Foston from the Golf Academy in Smarden, Kent to find out his top golf tips to master the art of putting on sloping greens.
Common Faults
Your putting stroke feels too mechanical.
You often miss key slopes in the greens while reading the break on your putts.
Pro-Tip Fix
One of the great challenges golf poses is balancing the contradiction between the mechanics of your swing and your feel for the game.
This applies just as much on the greens. I see far too many golfers (amateurs and professionals) getting too wrapped up in the mechanics of their strokes while they are out on the course, competing for real. My putting tip should help you address this challenge.
The best short game tip I can give would be to say that this is not the time to be thinking about stroke path or tempo; it will only distract you from the task of holing out. Instead, when you are on the course, get your eyes open.
As a putting tip to help read your putts you have to look at the slopes on the green as a whole, pay attention to how your playing partners' putts react once they get to the hole and then focus on your specific putt. Leave the putting technique for the practice green.
This less technical, feel-based approach is the key to developing a natural appreciation for pace and line on the greens.
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