But should that be such a joke? Why do you have to be on real grass to perfect your putting game? Chance are you missed that 4 foot eagle putt, not because of a bad read, but because of a breakdown in your putting stroke. Sometimes getting back to the fundamentals of your stroke is all you need.

Putting doesn’t have to be done one real grass to perfect it. You need to be able to reproduce your swing stroke over and over again. The greens change speeds from day to day and from course to course, why not use your carpet at home. Your living room carpet can be the perfect place to work on your putting game and you can do it even if there’s 30 inches of snow outside.

You just have to think reproducible. Setup a cup at varying distances and try to putt the golf ball into it. Sure you’ll wear a line in the carpet that the ball will eventually follow but you’re not worried about reading putts. Just the speed and form of your putting stroke.

Try and hit that same line 100 times a night and you’ll be ready to attack any par 5 eagle putt, from 4 feet or 40.

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To often during rounds golfers are so worried about their swing, the tempo, the take-away, the follow through, the distance, that they loose sight of where the real money is made. On the putting green.

“Drive for show, putt for dough,” as the saying goes.

Now this holds true on an off the course. When you go to the driving range you may feel you have some self control because you don’t bring all your clubs to practice with. Instead you might bring your 7 iron and your driver and feel like you’re really practicing because you’re focusing on only two clubs. This isn’t a discredit towards you, just that you’re not practicing everything.

Along with those two clubs should be your putter. Nobody likes to practice putting, it’s boring and it takes to much time to putt three balls, retrieve and repeat. Why do that when you can just step up and smash balls at the driving range pulling from a bucket of 50 to 100 balls? Why? Because you “Drive for show and putt for dough.”

Another tough thing to overcome is the thought that while you’re putting you might feel as though you’re putting over the same line so really where is the practice. The practice is in your stroke. So many people think the putting stroke is too easy to require practice. But it’s not. What you want to do is eliminate the stroke variability from your putt so you just have tempo and read to worry about. That comes with practice. Hitting the ball on the same line every time is tough and if you can do that you’re doing something right.

Practicing putting just 10 minutes every time you are at the range or before a round can make a world of difference to your golf game. Why waste an extra stroke on every green when you have a chance to putt yourself into a par.