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Gate Drill - Putting

Set up two tee’s on the ground forming a gate around your putter. You will have one tee just outside the heel and one tee just outside the toe. The closer these two tees are to the club, the more difficult the drill will be. Place a third tee directly out in front of the gate. This is the target tee and should be about a foot away from the golf ball to start. This is a great refinement drill because the tee will bounce the ball back either straight, left, or right. The goal is to hit the putt solid and have the ball bounce straight back indicating that you started the putt online and hit the sweet spot.

Playlists: Putting

Tags: Putt, Impact, Drill

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This next drill is the help you start the ball online.

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It also incorporates working on hitting the ball in the sweet spot.

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And basically what you're going to do is you're going to set up a gate with two T's just

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outside your putter head width so that you would not be able to either miss the putter

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on the heel or the toe.

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It'll force the putter to come back straight through.

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Tigers use this drill a lot.

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It's one of my favorites as well.

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You can either do this with a hole or what I actually prefer is to take another T and

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stick it in the ground about a foot away.

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So basically what you're going to do is if you hit this dead square into the center of the

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T, the ball will bounce straight back towards you.

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If you miss it slightly off to one side or the other, it will bounce towards that side.

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Ideally you want to try to find a perfectly flat putt.

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This one does have a tiny bit of break to it so we'll see how I can do.

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So you start off with the ball just in front of the T's and you're going to go through

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your normal alignment setup process.

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And then if you hit the stroke, you should hit the T that's a foot in front.

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The further out you have the T the harder it is and essentially the better you can get,

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there's a pretty good one.

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The better you can get it starting the ball online and the T is a much better indicator

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than having an entire hole to aim at.

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The more likely you are to be reliant on the other two skills, being able to read the green

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because we know we can start it online and hit the proper pace.

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So give that one a try.

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It's one of my favorites for rehearsing and fine tuning starting the ball online.