Author: Vic AustinSo many of you spend hours on the driving range honing your golf swing in order to improve your golf score. But how many of you practice your putting? Think about it. Putting amounts to 40 to 50 percent of your golf score. You hit one great drive down the center of the green. You hit a nice shot from the fairway to the edge of the green. You then make one nice putt to within 2 feet of the hole, you drop that one and you just made par. But if you three putt – like most golfers do – you just went one over par. Do that over the course of the game and you add 18 strokes to your golf score! That is why putting is so important and why golf putting aids can do so much for your golf game.
While you may not have much time for putting practice during the golf season – you prefer to be out on the golf course – the off-season or winter allows you a lot of opportunity to practice your putting. And practicing your putting is not that difficult when you use a golf training aid. A golf putting aid can simply be a small elevated cup you set up in your office or living room on a rug and you spend your time knocking the ball into the cup from various distances. You can make it even simpler by simply using a glass or cup as a target to knock the ball against or you can get a little fancier by adding a putting mat and an automated return to make things easier. But no matter how you do it, this type of putting practice does work to lower your scores once you get back out on the golf course. It will do a lot to groove your putting technique.
If you have a problem with your alignment when you putt then you can find a golf training aid to help you with that as well. Some will use laser beams to help you to determine if you are actually lining your ball up with the center of the cup. This is very simple method to use. Other golf putting aids will use a rail or board of some kind that helps you make a perfect back and through putting stroke that is on plane and that will send the ball directly into the hole. Being able to putt the ball accurately will do much to improve your golf score.
One of the major problems many people have in putting is reading the green and being able to hit a putt that breaks properly. The best golf putting aid to use in developing this necessary skill and to avoid three putting is the indoor putting green. This is usually larger than the simple putting mat and cup but the most important aspect of an indoor putting green is the ability to create various contours to practice on. A flat, straight indoor putting green will only help you if every putting green on your golf course is flat and straight without any type of contours. That should be obvious to anyone. But most people buy the simple straight flat putting green and wonder why they can’t putt as well on the natural greens. Look for an indoor putting green that has some type of system underneath to create natural breaks and contours on the putting surface. Being able to create various contours on your indoor putting green will allow you to practice reading that contour and learning exactly how to make the ball break on that read. That will do more to improve your score through putting than any other method possible.
If you are going to practice, make sure you practice on all aspects of your game and that includes your putting. Look for great golf putting aids that will help you to improve your golf score.