When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!
Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.
The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.
Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.
You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.
I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
Putting is an art. When you're not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of your game.
Good putting starts with understanding the difference between a stroke and a hit. You want to make a stroke and let the energy of that back-and-through motion carry the ball to the hole.
Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.
I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.
Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.
You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.
