Improve Your Putting The Mental Aspect
To improve your putting and to get the scores that you have dreamed of it comes down to three main aspects: technique, consistency and the mental game. During this particular article I will focus on the mental aspect for it tends to be the category that gets golfers in the most trouble.
Remember the first time that you started to play golf and you hit the green with only one motive in mind which is to get the ball into the hole. As you played more and more the battle on the green became much harder and it is all due to the battle in your head. Suddenly instead of putting the ball in the hole your mind is filled with all of the instruction that you have received, all of the so called friendly advice from the golf magazines and the last time that you set foot on this particular green where the results were less than pleasing. To improve your putting it is essential that the garbage circulating around your brain is put to rest and the only thing that matters is the putt at hand.
Remember the last major championship were the pro golfers would step back from the putt and seem to be entering a new mystical place that I like to call the Chevy Chase zone. What the golfer is doing is watching their ball travel down that tricky path that leads to the hole and once they can visualize their ball doing this they will step up to the ball and get it done. Even if the ball does not do what it is suppose to chances are it will be good enough for a tap in and will not require multiple strokes to get it in the hole. Athletes of all caliber use the visualize technique to become the very best in their sport and their is no reason why you should not be doing the same. To improve your putting it is time to become one will the ball.
For whatever the reason people will spend hours on the driving range getting the most out of their drivers and irons but the practice putting green never gets a ton of attention. Think about this if you two putt every hole on a regulation course that equals out to thirty six strokes per round. If you improve your putting by practice and including the visualization it will have an incredible impact on your score. Remember the putting green is where the PGA guys get paid.
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