Utilizing a tennis ball as a coaching support is a superb methodology to show your self to gap extra putts.
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On virtually each gap you’ll ever play, you’ll pull the putter out of your bag. With such a excessive frequency of use, it’s smart to get loads of follow with the flatstick.
For lots of leisure gamers, practising placing is an afterthought. Essentially the most work they get in on the follow inexperienced is rolling a number of putts earlier than they head to the primary tee. However in the event you actually need to flip your putter right into a weapon, it’s vital to spend loads of time on the follow inexperienced.
Simply mindlessly rolling putts with no objective gained’t do you a lot good, although. If you wish to actually get probably the most out of your follow time, you might want to have a plan.
One nice — and simple! — placing follow methodology was not too long ago shared with me by GOLF Prime 100 Trainer Joe Hallet. And the drill entails an unconventional coaching support. Test it out beneath.
Use a tennis ball to follow placing
Should you see a tennis ball on the follow inexperienced, you may assume somebody shanked it there with a racket from the close by courts. Nonetheless, in the event you’re intelligent, a tennis ball could be a nice coaching support.
Arrange about three toes from the cup such as you would for every other short-putting drill. However as a substitute of rolling a golf ball towards the opening, use a tennis ball. This may look unconventional, however placing with a tennis ball has a number of nice advantages.
“Except the ball is struck correctly, it’ll bounce and it’ll not make it to the opening,” Hallet says. “The opposite factor is, if it doesn’t go within the heart of the cup, it’s not gonna go in.”
After rolling a number of putts with the tennis ball, you’ll begin to get the hold of how you might want to hit it to make it drop into the cup.
In your subsequent sequence of putts, substitute the tennis ball together with your golf ball. If you look down on the ball and over to the cup, it’ll offer you a renewed sense of the scale distinction between the cup and the ball.
“It simply places all the things into perspective,” Hallet says.
Attempt it out subsequent time you’re on the follow inexperienced. Should you can educate your self to make a number of putts with a tennis ball, you’ll be amazed how a lot simpler it appears once you substitute it together with your golf ball.
