| Congratulations on your choice to start play | | | | essential to your putting game because it helps |
| golfing. It is a wonderful game that offers many | | | | you visually see where you are aiming, and |
| great life lessons and fun times. However, it can | | | | makes lining your putter on the right line so much |
| also be a heart breaker. As you will soon find out, | | | | easier. |
| golfing is a lot harder than you could ever imagine. | | | | Thirdly: You Want a Pendulum Like Stroke |
| There are ways though to make it easier and a | | | | This means that you have a nice smooth stroke, |
| lot less frustrating in the beginning, and that is to | | | | using only your shoulders and arms, not your |
| learn to putt. | | | | wrists. You want everything working together in a |
| There are five things that I believe to be the | | | | nice smooth stroke. The easiest way to learn |
| most important in putting, and they are: Ball | | | | how to putt like this is to grab an extra club while |
| Position, Lining Your Putt, Pendulum stroke, | | | | you are practicing putting, and put it underneath |
| Alignment, and Eyes Over Ball. | | | | your arms and keep it against your body while |
| Firstly: You Want a Good Ball Position | | | | putting,without dropping it. This forces your arms |
| This where the balls lies in your stance. If you are | | | | and shoulders to work together and gives you a |
| a right handed player having the ball back in your | | | | beautiful motion that will cause you stroke the ball |
| stance means it is closer to your right foot, and in | | | | and increase the number of putts you make. |
| front of your stance means it is closer to your | | | | Fourthly: You Need to be Properly Aligned |
| left foot. In putting we want the ball to be just | | | | If you line your putt up, this part becomes |
| inside of our left foot, so in front of your stance. | | | | extremely easy. You just line up parallel to the line |
| We want this because this will cause you to strike | | | | on your golf ball. It is a simple step, but is crucial in |
| the ball on the upswing which puts forward roll on | | | | your putting game. If you are aligned just an inch |
| the ball, where as, if we put it in the center it | | | | off you have just guaranteed yourself an extra |
| would cause the ball to skid across the green | | | | stroke. |
| instead of roll. So we want that forward roll. | | | | Fifthly: You Want Your Eyes Over the Ball |
| Secondly: It Is an Absolute, That You Line Your | | | | This means that while in your putting stance, |
| Putt. | | | | getting ready to putt, and you take another ball |
| Most balls today have a line with arrows on both | | | | and put it on the bridge of your nose, and drop it, |
| sides, this is what you want to use to line your | | | | that ball will land on the ball on the ground. If you |
| putt with. If your ball does not, I recommend | | | | do this, then you are good. |
| drawing a straight line with a sharpie, you can buy | | | | It is important to do this, because if your eyes |
| a something that helps you with this in Wal-Mart | | | | are not over the ball then the line on your golf ball |
| for like 4 or 5 bucks. | | | | will look like it is pointing a slightly different |
| Lining your putt means that you are having the | | | | direction, causing you to misalign your putter and |
| arrows on the ball point to the way you want to | | | | guarantee yourself an extra stroke. If you can do |
| hit it. So if the putt is breaking to the left, you | | | | these five things, and practice putting then you |
| want to line your putt to the right. Doing this is | | | | are on your way to playing better golf. |