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A simple drill with tees is a good way to get a feel for how far your back-and-through motion should be while stroking a putt.
A simple drill with tees is a good way to get a feel for how far your back-and-through motion should be while stroking a putt.
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Putting practice should be about improving direction or distance control. This Ladder Drill – requiring only four tees and your putter – will help with the latter:

Set one tee in the ground and place three behind it at putter head-length intervals. This is your ladder, and the start of each drill begins at the first tee.

With the first ball, take your putter face back to the second tee, stroke the ball and follow-through. With the second ball, take your putter face back to the third tee, and do the same thing with the last ball and the last tee.

Since you’re not putting at a hole, observe where each ball is when it stops rolling. If stroked with a good rhythm and follow-through, each ball should be approximately the same distance from each other.

To complete the drill, hit each ball back to the tees and try to stop them within the length of the ladder.

This drill will help with your distance control and have more of your longer putts finding the bottom of the hole.

Grant Strobel, PGA, is the head golf professional at Woods Valley Golf Club in Valley Center. He can be reached at (760) 751-3007 or gstrobel@woodsvalleygolfclub.com.