Putting

Putting Practice Drills

Structured drills that actually transfer to the course.

Why it matters

Throwing a hundred putts from the same spot is not practice, it is repetition with no feedback — and it builds a stroke you never actually use, because on the course you get one putt, from an awkward angle, with a routine in front of it. A drill has a distance, a rep count and a number to beat, which is what makes it possible to tell whether you are improving.

How to do it

The ladder: five putts each from 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 feet, recording makes per distance. This is the one that tells you where your range really ends.
Around the world: ten putts from 20 feet, moving to a different angle every putt. Your lie in a round is almost never straight on.
The pressure set: make five in a row from 20 feet before you are allowed to stop. One miss and the count goes back to zero.
One-putt: twenty putts taken one at a time, each with your full routine, from a distance you pick at random. This is the only drill that rehearses the thing a hole actually asks of you.
Keep sessions short — 50 to 100 putts in fifteen or twenty minutes, with attention on every one, beats 300 on autopilot.

Common mistakes

Practising only the distance you are already good at.Let the ladder pick for you. Spend your time where the numbers fall off, not where they look good.

Rapid-firing from a pile of discs with no routine.At least one set per session with the full routine, one disc, stepping off between putts. Otherwise you are practising a stroke you will never use.

Keeping no record, so progress is a matter of opinion.Write the numbers in a note on your phone. Five numbers per session is enough to see a trend in a month.

Practising to exhaustion, which trains a tired stroke.Stop when your attention goes, not when your arm does.

Key points

Ladder drill: make putts moving back from 15 to 30+ feet.
Track makes and misses — practice the distances you miss.
Short, focused sets beat long, unfocused sessions.

The drill

Drill · The ladder, written down — 25 putts — 5 each from 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 ft, once a week. Five numbers, recorded every week. That is the whole drill, and it is the most useful fifteen minutes in your practice week: it tells you your real circle-1 range, it shows you which distance to work on next, and after a month it tells you whether anything you changed actually helped.

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