Three Identical Putts

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This speed control drill is three identical putts, so I use this not only as a

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way to

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train your speed control, but I often use this as a diagnostic for how good is

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your tempo and your awareness. So the instructions on this are really simple.

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We're going to hit three putts without looking at where they end up, so when

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I'm doing this in person I will have a golfer hit the first putt and I won't

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let them look at it. I'll block it and they just have to feel about where it

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went and then they're going to try to duplicate the exact same distance with

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the exact same stroke a total of three times, so two more times. So I usually

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give them a target of just kind of out in the middle of the green, so usually

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about a 30 footer or so. I'm going to back up so you can kind of see a little

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bit easier roughly how this would would work. So if I bring them back here, now

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I'm going to try and I'm just going to be able to feel hopefully how big of a

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stroke and how hard I hit that and then I'm going to evaluate afterward about

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how

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far they went. And so the the first one was a little bit shorter, the second

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were pretty good. You should be able to get this within about a foot and so the

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the first version I do it more like this where it's more of a surprise. The

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second version would be once you hit the putt you're going to guess in the

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first

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couple feet is this going to be long short or good. So goods within a foot,

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long

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would be more than a foot past, short would be more than a foot short. And so

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you have to go purely based on feel if the the putt is hit harder, hit softer,

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etc. So if I did one here and I so that's my baseline and now I'm going to hit

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this putt and I'm going to say long. And if I look up so that would have been

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good but it's about eight inches past so getting closer to long. So a little

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subtlety I was able to pick up but overall not too bad. I would recommend

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doing this on putts from about 30 feet and then another set at like 45 50 feet.

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If you can control speed at those two locations typically you're going to have

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a reasonable skill set for being able to avoid three putts unless you have

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really breaky, floaty greens that you had a hard time reading or if you have

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huge greens and you have a lot of you know 60, 70, 80 foot putts. So this is

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one

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of my favorite games for dialing in your tempo and your speed control. I

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highly recommend I give it to almost all of my students as a way for them to

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work on their touch.