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.
Unless it’s noticeably strong, the direction the wind is blowing is more of an afterthought on the green for most golfers. Though maybe it shouldn’t be.
These benchmarks are for the best players in the world. For the rest of us, however, they seem encouraging, considering many of these goals feel attainable.
On the eve of the Valspar Championship, Thomas insisted that he’s putting better than the numbers say. And we have to say that he had a pretty good excuse for those poor stats.