How to Improve Your Putting at Home
Improving your putting skills is a key part of becoming a great golfer. While it may seem challenging to practice putting without access to a dedicated practice green, there are several effective ways to enhance your skills right in the comfort of your own home.
With a bit of creativity, patience, and commitment, you can sharpen your technique, boost your focus, and build confidence on the greens.
Create a Dedicated Practice Space
Start by setting up a small putting area in your home. This could be as simple as laying down an indoor practice putting mat or using a section of carpet in a quiet, low-traffic area. Having a designated spot allows you to concentrate on your stroke and removes unnecessary distractions.
Checkout the Visio Indoor Practice Putting Mat, it’s ideal for maintaining meaningful practice whilst indoors with markings for real-time feedback and reference points for startline, putter face position, swing length and the innovative speedzone for hole proximity training.
Dial in your accuracy
There are many drills you can use to improve specific aspects of your putting, such as aim, start line, stroke path, and distance control.
One popular exercise is the gate drill. The Visio Putting Gate Pack can be used to give you instant and accurate feedback on your ability to hit your start line. The different gate widths could give you challenges to work through as you develop this important skill.
Analyse Your Stroke Mechanics
To better understand your stroke path, direction, and where you strike the ball on the putter face, use the camera on your smartphone. Position it behind the ball or above the putter, using a tripod to keep it steady.
By reviewing the footage, you can identify any tendencies or issues with your technique, making it easier to adjust and improve. Using the references of the Visio Mi Putting Template could also help you more thoroughly analyse your stroke when filming.
Develop Smooth, Controlled Strokes for Speed Control
Speed control is also a critical element of putting, and you can work on this at home too! This is where the Visio Tempostik+ comes into its own.
Indoors you can work on developing a consistent rhythm and tempo for all putt types. If you putting carpet is restricted in length just place a cushion to stop the ball when working on the longer strokes. The Tempostik+ will help you train the key elements which control speed to help you adapt to whatever putt length you will face on the course.
Conclusion
Improving your putting at home is not only possible, but it can also be a highly productive way to make the most of your time off the course. By creating a dedicated practice space, incorporating useful drills, analysing your stroke mechanics and perfecting your speed control, you can set yourself up for better performance once you’re back on the greens.
With consistency and determination, you’ll soon see the difference in your putting game. Check out our range of putting training aids that will help make your practice at home even more effective.
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Do the alignment lines on your putter enhance your accuracy, or could they be hindering your performance?
Most golfers use the lines on their putters to aim the face precisely along their chosen start line. This is especially common if you also use a line on your golf ball to assist with aiming. But have you ever considered whether these lines are actually benefiting you?
ou step up, address the ball with your putter, and make a smooth stroke, only to watch the ball veer off line like it had a mind of its own. You swear you aimed it right. But did you? For most golfers, the issue isn’t the stroke. It’s misalignment, starting the ball in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
Do you ever stand over a putt and second guess your read, only to watch the ball miss wide, breaking too much or not enough? You’re not alone. And there’s a chance, the problem isn’t your stroke, it’s the read.
Putting is often lost before the ball even moves. distance, slope (angle & gradient), grain and other factors can all influence how the ball rolls. If you misread those pieces of information, even a good stroke can send the putt off line.
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