Okay, so you have finally gotten decent off of the tee box. Your fairway woods and irons are coming along, your short game is hit or miss, but your putting is still terrible.

Most amateur golfers neglect their putting game more than any other aspect of their game. Why? It seems that most golfers think that putting is either the easiest aspect of the game to learn, or that they think it is the least important aspect of the game to learn. Both of these statements could not be further from the truth.

The truth is that putting is arguably the most important aspect of the entire game, as being good on the green will save your game more strokes then you think. If you just sit back and do the numbers in your head, then you will immediately realize how many strokes you are loosing by 3 and 4 -putting every green.

Here is a great example. You are standing on a par-4. You hit a decent tee shot, just miss the green with your second shot, and then chip up onto the green with your third. You are sitting 3 on the green. A 2-putt will still get you a respectable bogey, and a 1-putt will score you a fantastic par.

The fact of the matter is, since you have not been spending any time on your putting, you still 3-putt your way to a double-bogey, or worse, 4-putt your way to a triple-bogey, which lets be honest, that is terrible.

The point I am trying to make is simple. Being good on the green will allow you to falter in other areas of your game, while still affording you the ability to come up with good scores.

You don’t have to be a 275-300 yard hitter off the tee to get a decent score. You do however have to be a decent putter; otherwise you scorecard will be filled with crooked numbers. Get out there and spend a day or two working on putting only. You will immediately start to see amazing results.