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A good practice drill to help you become more confident with short putts is to place a ball on each point of the compass around the hole, approximately three feet away.

Mangum's teaching techniques set a player's mind to the task and routinely results in a reduction of four or five putts per round.

But before you hit the miniature golf course, study these lessons from physicist Sir Isaac Newton and learn how to sink putts with ease.

Before the final round began, Quinney drew two lines, one on his putter and one on his ball, to help him with his alignment on putts.

1 - drive, five iron to four feet, one putt birdie; 2 - drive, pitch to 20 feet, two putts; 3 - two iron to 15 feet, two putts; 4 - drive, two iron, chip to four feet, one putt; 5 - three iron, seven iron to 10 feet, one putt birdie; 6 - six iron to 20 feet, one putt birdie; 7 - drive, six iron to 40 feet, two putts birdie; 8 - drive, three iron to 25 feet, two putts; 9 - two iron, nine iron to 20 feet, 2 putts.

Biomechanics experts have found that certain golfing grips can lessen head and eye movement during putts. Limiting these motions improves one's game, suggests George K.

The analyses focused on five categories: driving accuracy, greens hit in regulation, putts per round, non-sand save percentage, and sand-save percentage -- and how each affected scoring averages.

where WINNINGS is the natural logarithm of the golfer's average amount of money won per event; DISTANCE is the average length (expressed in yards) of a player's tee shot (i.e., initial drive) per hole; ACCURACY measures the percentage of time that a player's tee shot lands in the fairway; GREENS in regulation measures the percentage of time that a player gets his ball onto the putting green within two shots of par; SANDSAVEs measures how often a player hits one shot out of a sand trap (or "bunker") and hits his next shot into the hole; and PUTTS indicates the average number of putts per hole.

The four-time Major winner used his putter from just off the green and while officially credited with four putts on the green, it was five putts with his putter in an unwanted first double in 10 rounds of 2018.

For a right-handed golfer, holding the club just in the right hand and rolling putts on the practice green is a great way to develop 'feel' with a rhythmic stroke, instead of a tight two-handed grip that can produce short, jerky putts.

"Obviously, when you're winning tournaments, you need to hole a few putts, but ...

The problems were caused by McIlroy trying to over-hit his short putts.