No Yips Golf Putting Tips that Lower Your Score

The best golf putting tips won't work for you unless you understand the most important aspect of putting.

Great putting isn't what you do... but what you think.

Have you ever watched a tournament where a player made an impossible putt? Of course you have. When we watch professionals, the really great putters make the ones they have to... when they need to. That is not physical it's mental. The best putting tip you will ever hear is....

it's all in your head.

Really good putters.... think they are really good putters.

Now let's talk about putting from two perspectives. What you can control and what you can't. Then we'll talk through several golf putting tips that will show you how to use what you can control to minimize what you can't control.

Conventional putting instruction is generally not helpful and often approaches useless. This is because, conventional putting lessons are far too complicated and mechanical. When we putt on the greens at a golf course we often really do not know why the ball didn't go in the whole. When someone starts talking about 1 degree open or closed putter face. Run....

So to make better putting easier to attain you can take a very simple approach to putting consistently. Consistent putting is not about stroke or grip.....it's not about whether you put from the shoulders or the wrist. Consistent putting is about knowing what you do and doing the same thing over and over. What needs to be predictable is your execution of your stroke, not a different stroke.

Here is an important putting tip. Most golfers putt just like they swing. If you tend to hit draws on full shots you probably have a draw or pull putting stroke. If you usually fade your shots you probably have a slice or push putting stroke. It doesn't matter. what matters is that you know what you do, and you do the same thing on every stroke.

Putting is full of variables. The speed of the greens..how bumpy they are....the grain of the greens.....the shadows, ball marks....and a host of other variables you can't control.

The more variables you can eliminate the more consistent your putting will be. Groove the stroke you have and know where the ball is going.

Another putting tip is on reading the greens. Green reading is arguably more science than art. It's just an elusive science. The good news is you have the most powerful computer on the planet todo the calculations. Your brain. You just have to give it the right input.

So here are the basic observations for every putt:

1. What is the general slope of the green?

2. How far is my ball from the nearest bunker?

3. Which way is the grain of the green growing?

4. What are the obvious features that will effect the putt?

Once you are aware of the answers to the basics. When it is your turn to putt:

1. Place your ball at as if to putt.

2. Squat down behind the ball and pick a putting line.

3. Go to the opposite side of the ball squat and determine a putting line.

4. Now walk completely around the green about the distance your ball is from the hole. For example if your ball is 8 feet from the hole walk around the entire circumference of a circle at least 8 feet on the other side of the hole.

5. Return to a position behind your ball. Adjust your line and putt....don't over think. Relax and let your mind work.

AND DON'T PEAK...LISTEN FOR THE BALL TO DROP

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