Golf Tip: Putting Tip from Champions Tour Player Steve Jones

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• Instructor: Steve Jones
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Putting

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Obviously when you're playing for score, playing for a living, everything has to come together to have a good week. And for me right now, ironically enough, my wedge game is not where it should be. It's cost me a lot of shots the last few tournaments and a couple iron shots. I'm hitting my driver well. I'm just not getting it close enough to the hole, but at least I haven't had a lot of 3-putts, so that's helped me out. But you have to do the all-around game. I mean, you can have 20 putts a day and still shoot over par, you know, if you don't hit it good enough. So everything has to come together. But you try to, you know, get each part of your game a little bit better and better and better and see what's your weakness and work on that. And hopefully you get it together and do something really well some week, you know. A lot of times when I play with amateurs, I, you know, they see what I'm using, obviously, and I look what they're using. You know, I see what they're using and what works for them. And a lot of guys are pretty good putters, but usually it's alignment for amateurs. And most of the time, the pros, we work on alignment. If we can align our bodies correctly, then you're going to swing a lot better. And that's the number one That's one key. And so for putting, that's what you want to do. You want to line your putter up where you want to go, and then you want to forget about your alignment and think about distance. That's all you got to do. Line it up and then think about distance. But too many…