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Improve Your Short Putting with the Ring of Fire Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Develop a reliable routine for making short putts consistently.
  • Experience the pressure of game-like situations to boost your focus.
  • Understand how to adjust for break and distance on different putts.

Learn how to enhance your short putting skills with the Ring of Fire drill. This engaging practice will help you build confidence and consistency on putts inside six feet.

Video Transcript
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This putting game is Ring of Fire and this is by far one of my favorite putting

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games. It puts a lot of pressure on your short putts. If you can get to the

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habit

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of making virtually everything inside six feet you're going to have a hard time

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having too many doubles and triples so it really keeps you in every game.

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Basically Ring of Fire you can either do one ball or two balls so in this

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particular one I'm going to do two balls but basically what you're going to do

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is you're going to take three foot, four foot, five foot. Now you can either

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play

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it like the old let's make a millionaire and when you get past the three foot

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you

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banked it. Now you just have to do four foot. What I would do when I was

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playing

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tournaments is I would do I had to make it through all the three foot all the

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four foot and all the five foot without missing before I could move on to the

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next game. Sometimes it took me an hour and a half sometimes it only took me

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ten

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minutes. Let's hope for video's sake that this is one of those ten minute

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cases. So basically I missed the first one luckily doesn't take too much for me

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to

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start back over. All right so we'll get a little bit more focus. The more break

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so

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this putt has a little bit of break the more break that you have the harder it

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's

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going to be. The second you miss a putt you have to start back over. We'll see

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if

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we can get through just the three foot.

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So now we have a slightly different break and eight balls is about as many

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as will fit in the cup. So now for video purposes starting to feel a little bit

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of pressure because I know if I miss I don't want to have to set this up again.

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Good last one. All right so I banked it I made it through all the three footers

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now what I would do is I would take them back out and I would go three foot

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plus

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about a grip or plus a foot. I would do three foot four foot five foot you can

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potentially go to six feet I usually stopped at five but this gives you a lot

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of pressure making these short putts which will really help you keep

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together your rounds.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Your Short Putting with the Ring of Fire Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Develop a reliable routine for making short putts consistently.
  • Experience the pressure of game-like situations to boost your focus.
  • Understand how to adjust for break and distance on different putts.

Learn how to enhance your short putting skills with the Ring of Fire drill. This engaging practice will help you build confidence and consistency on putts inside six feet.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.300
This putting game is Ring of Fire and this is by far one of my favorite putting

2
00:00:05.300 --> 00:00:09.400
games. It puts a lot of pressure on your short putts. If you can get to the

3
00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:09.720
habit

4
00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.760
of making virtually everything inside six feet you're going to have a hard time

5
00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:17.880
having too many doubles and triples so it really keeps you in every game.

6
00:00:17.880 --> 00:00:22.680
Basically Ring of Fire you can either do one ball or two balls so in this

7
00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:25.800
particular one I'm going to do two balls but basically what you're going to do

8
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:30.200
is you're going to take three foot, four foot, five foot. Now you can either

9
00:00:30.200 --> 00:00:30.840
play

10
00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:35.160
it like the old let's make a millionaire and when you get past the three foot

11
00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:35.700
you

12
00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:38.760
banked it. Now you just have to do four foot. What I would do when I was

13
00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:38.960
playing

14
00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.520
tournaments is I would do I had to make it through all the three foot all the

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00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.200
four foot and all the five foot without missing before I could move on to the

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00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:50.360
next game. Sometimes it took me an hour and a half sometimes it only took me

17
00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:50.480
ten

18
00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:55.080
minutes. Let's hope for video's sake that this is one of those ten minute

19
00:00:55.080 --> 00:01:03.540
cases. So basically I missed the first one luckily doesn't take too much for me

20
00:01:03.540 --> 00:01:03.600
to

21
00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:12.060
start back over. All right so we'll get a little bit more focus. The more break

22
00:01:12.060 --> 00:01:12.200
so

23
00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.320
this putt has a little bit of break the more break that you have the harder it

24
00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:15.400
's

25
00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:21.000
going to be. The second you miss a putt you have to start back over. We'll see

26
00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:21.080
if

27
00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:25.240
we can get through just the three foot.

28
00:01:25.240 --> 00:01:41.800
So now we have a slightly different break and eight balls is about as many

29
00:01:41.800 --> 00:01:49.360
as will fit in the cup. So now for video purposes starting to feel a little bit

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of pressure because I know if I miss I don't want to have to set this up again.

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Good last one. All right so I banked it I made it through all the three footers

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00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:09.280
now what I would do is I would take them back out and I would go three foot

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00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.160
plus

34
00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:15.040
about a grip or plus a foot. I would do three foot four foot five foot you can

35
00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:19.200
potentially go to six feet I usually stopped at five but this gives you a lot

36
00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:22.400
of pressure making these short putts which will really help you keep

37
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.120
together your rounds.
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