When the dust had settled on his win at the RBC Heritage Sunday, Justin Thomas rose to No.5 in the world for the first time since 2022, and also bagged his first trophy since the PGA Championship that year.
Putting coach Ralph Bauer says he recommends using the line to most golfers – or to at the very least, try it – but does offer up one warning about how to use it best.
AimPoint is a modern green-reading technique based primarily on feeling the slopes on the greens, rather than trying to spot them with your eyes. We take a deeper dive into the system here.
The reason why most of your putts don’t go in is because you’re misreading them. Unlike mashing a drive 320 metres, you possess all the tools to avoid these kinds of judgment errors. You just need to learn a few things that’ll help you along the way.
The thing is, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do this drill. Do it the wrong way, and it can make your putting stroke a lot worse without you even noticing.
Todd Anderson, Zhang’s coach and top-10 ranked Golf Digest teaching professional, says that to practise making longer putts, you should try the 100-foot drill.
Australian Golf Digest
