You should never get set over the ball and then aim your putter face. If you do it in that order, you can easily lose sight of your intended line. Instead, aim the face down your line first, then settle your body into position.
Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits.
I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low
I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.
When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.
Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.
For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.
Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.
Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
I call golf with my head and my heart. I don't have any notes in front of me - it's different from basketball and football in that feel.
Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.
Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.
I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.
I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.
