{"id":82,"date":"2013-07-04T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:09","slug":"the-key-to-approach-putting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-key-to-approach-putting\/","title":{"rendered":"The key to approach putting"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a simple way to hit your approach putts on the number. It involves knowing what physical impression the stroke for a certain distance makes on your body. I spoke of this in an earlier post<\/a>, but this post goes into more detail.<\/p>\n

This method works only if your putting stroke is a body stroke; that is, the rotation of your torso is the prime mover of the stroke. If you are all hands on the green, read no further.<\/p>\n

Go to the practice green and hit several fifteen-foot putts. As you hit these putts, pay attention to any physical sensations you have at the apex of the stroke. For example, I feel certain compression of my upper back muscles on my right side.<\/p>\n

What you have found is the physical feeling, for you, of a fifteen-foot putt. Now whenever you recreate that feeling, the putt will go fifteen feet. Simple.<\/p>\n

Now make a longer stroke, one that hits the putt twenty-five feet, and look for the physical marker again. For me, it’s a stretching, or maybe a tugging, in the right side of my torso. <\/p>\n

Finally, hit some putts that go thirty-five feet. When you have that distance down consistently, search once more for the indicator physical sensation. I feel a stretching or tugging sensation in my lower back. <\/p>\n

After you’ve done this, you have found three reference feelings that produce approach putts of three definite lengths. Given a putt of that length, you merely have to reproduce the feeling as you make the stroke and the perfect distance is the result.<\/p>\n

For putts between those reference point distances, use the feeling of the shorter stroke and add on a bit of hit with the hands. <\/p>\n

For putts of longer than your longest reference stroke, you do the same thing–add a bit of hit with your hands. Practice will tell you how much.<\/p>\n

If you calibrate your stroke in this way and memorize these feelings, there is no need ever to guess at how hard to hit an approach putt. <\/p>\n

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