Play the tic tac toe drill. This is a great game in order to understand the distance when putting, as shown in the image below. If you are really serious about wanting to learn how to play golf, you must start by reading and understanding how this game is played.
PUTTING GAME
This putting game is a great drill and can teach you to perform under pressure when playing against your friends or adversaries.
HOW TO PLAY THE PAR 9 PUTTING GAME
Pick 9 spots throughout the putting green, at different distances and angles, identified by flags, as shown in the image below.
STRAIGHT BACK STRAIGHT THROUGH DRILL
Place two clubs on the ground, as shown in the image above. The stroke should be straight back and straight through the clubs.
Around the World
https://www.youtube.com/embed/b-P-m0_Fkak This fun, around the world putting game, is one of the best ways to improve your short putting. Pick a hole on the putting green and create five stations around it, setting up golf balls in a row at two-, three-, four-, five- and six-feet away.
Tic Tac Toe
Is improving your distance control and feel a top priority? We have the drill for you! You’ll need a friend and some string for this fun putting game. To play, cut four lengths of string roughly four to seven feet in length, and lay them out in a tic-tac-toe grid.
How to Use the Scorecard
Once you've picked out a target area you can start working through the nine different ball flights.
You May Be Surprised
From the very beginning, when he started playing golf in high school, Rotary Swing Instructor Clay Ballard always played a draw. All the way through college, after college, on the mini tours, he always believed that was his best shot.
Try it Yourself
Choose a target area in the distance and put an alignment rod down on the ground on the target line for reference. Each of the nine shots will require a different combination of the skills you have learned over the course of this series.
Now Try the Left Column
After you've hit your draws successfully, turn your attention to the three boxes in the left column: low fade, medium fade, and high fade. We'll do the straight shots last.
Look at the Ball for Feedback
Throughout this drill you're going to be looking at the ball itself for your feedback. Watch the ball flight on each shot. Do you want it to go higher? Lower? More to the left? More to the right? You control all of that with your left wrist.
Interpreting the Scorecard
Let's take a look at one of Clay's scorecards for this game and see what it all means and how you can use the information.
Where Are Your Strengths?
You can't rely on a single scorecard to draw general conclusions, but as you do the drill again and again over time you'll definitely be able to see patterns.