Short Putting with Dave Pelz

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• Instructor: Dave Pelz
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Putting

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Hi, I want to talk to you about preparing for your major. We got to win this year. If you prepare properly to play your best, you can do it. One of the things I want to make sure you do is putt your short putts well. Short putting is the most important single shot in golf. Half of all putts are hit from inside of 6 feet, and this is my 3-foot circle drill. Now, this is the drill. That's all I want you to do is 10 hole— 10 balls around the hole, 3 feet, putt around and around and around. Every time you miss, you start over until you get 10 in a row. That's the drill. Some of the pros do more. Mickelson makes 100 in a row. But look, 10 in a row is fine for you. But I want to talk to the people who have a problem with this drill. If you continually miss these putts, you're doing something wrong. And I've got an idea for you. Look, if you roll this ball straight down the hill and it misses, you've probably either aimed it wrong or you've mishit it. You've stroked across it or inside out, or you've done something bad. I've got two little learning aids here that I want to show you in close-up. This is called the Putting Tutor, and there's a long white line, and I've got the long white line aimed right here because I think this ball is going to break left to right. If I putt this ball between those marbles, I can check my aim. I can see if my aim is any good or not. Now, if that ball had missed— it went between the marbles, so I know it started on the…