There are plenty of different golf putting training aids available today, but, no matter what you need to be able to read the slope of the green if you are planning to regularly make putts.
There are lots of different techniques to figure out how a green breaks. One thing that all golfers ought to do is to take a look at the placement of your golf ball in relation to the hole prior to getting onto the green itself. The same as water, a golf ball rolls down hill. When you look at the green from the your last shot, just picture where the water would go if it rained. That is the general slope of the green and water will gather in certain locations.
That seems easy enough, but how are you aware exactly how much to play the break? One easy method for figuring out the break is to make use of the pendulum technique for reading the break. To accomplish this is pretty straightforward. Initially, stand behind the golf ball and take a position with both feet apart and straddle the line from the ball to the pin. You have to take your stance so that your left and right feet are an equal distance from the imaginary line. It means that an imaginary line drawn from the cup to the golf ball passes straight through the middle of your body.
After that, hold the putter with two fingers right near the butt of the putter so that the golf putter swings exactly like a pendulum. The putter should easily move from left to right if you are carrying this out properly. And then, close your lazy eye – this would be your left eye if you are right handed, or your right eye if you are left handed. Line up the shaft of the putter with the golf ball using your dominate eye and then start looking where the shaft is pointing alongside the cup. This is the point where you aim your putt for the break.
As an example, if the shaft lines up two inches to the left of the cup, then the golf ball will break two inches to the right. All you do is then aim the ball at that point. This technique is an easy one to try and do and is effective on green with bent grass. Greens with bent grass usually don’t have much grain that also affects how much the golf ball will break. If you are on Bermuda greens, then you should also take into consideration the direction the grass is growing – toward the low points, toward any water or toward the low point of the course. The golf ball will break more, or less, depending on where the grain is growing – more toward the grain and less against the grain.
Check out these putting tips the next time you head out to the course. You will find that, with practice, these techniques will make improvements to your putting accuracy and reliability.
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