Why You Need This:

In this video, “How to Putt and Win | “21” Competition Game”…

You’ll find out about an awesome game I play to improve my putting.

This is my all time favorite game to learn how to putt and win.

You may be asking yourself…

“What’s the difference in putting well and putting to win.”

Surprisingly, a lot!

When the pressure is on, everything changes.

Short putts that used to be easy are now hard.

Distance control becomes tougher and tougher.

But who wants to practice for hours and hours without having fun?

I know I don’t.

So, here’s a game that I have played with my college teammates for hundreds of hours.

Watch the video now so you can play it too…

And you’ll learn how to control your speed, make more putts and drain the big putts under pressure!

What's Covered: Drill/game designed to help with putting accuracy and speed control

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:21

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, I’ve got a great drill for you today. This is a drill that I played hundreds of hours with teammates in college, and when I was playing a little bit of professional golf.

We played this game over and over, it’s a really fun game and it really helps you to get your speed control down correct, we talked about how important speed control is and dying the ball into the hole in section number two, level number two.

Then it also helps you with your nerves. We talked about how if you want to be really good you have to have that desire to win. You have to want to beat the guy next to you, and you have to feel like the more pressure you get on you, the better you’re going to perform.

Like pressure unlocks something inside of you that allows you to play even a little bit better. So this game is called “21,” I’ll walk over the rules of this game and I’ll give you a couple tips for how to play this.

So we start out and there’s two players, only two players in this game, and you’re going to start out by lagging into the hole.

So let’s this is player number one, and then player number two putts, and then whichever one ends up closer to the hole is the one that’s going to win. So player number one hit it way too far by, player number two is closest, so it’s player number two’s pick.

You can go anywhere on the green, and you roll two balls. Now the only rules are, a make is worth three points, and closest to the hole is worth one point. But the key is you have to beat both balls from your opponent.

So let’s imagine here, I’ll give you a couple different examples. Let’s say player number one actually makes a shot, so there the ball goes in, and then player number one’s second ball ends up here. This can be from anywhere on the green.

Well if player number two hits their ball inside of this one, and then hits their second ball there, well player number one gets three points for the make because that’s closer than both of player two’s balls, but they don’t get a point for this one being in front of this one.

You have to be in front of both of the other player’s balls to get any points.

So another example is let’s say that player number one makes one, and misses one. Player number two makes one and misses one, so there’s no points there, because they tied on the first ball, the second ball isn’t in front of both of them, so you don’t get any points.

So you work, go on until you get 21 points total. Now I recommend, this may not be politically correct, but I recommend playing for some money.

You want to put something on it, and a lot of times people ask me, “Well, what should you play for, what’s a good bet?” Play for whatever makes you nervous.

That’s a great line. Tiger Woods used that and was playing somebody and asked what they wanted to play for, and he said, “Whatever makes you nervous.”

So you always want to play for an amount, for something that’s going to get your heart pumping, that if you come down to this last putt and if you don’t make it, you’re going to lose $5, or $50, or $500, whatever it is for you personally, that needs to be what you play for.

If you get the nerves pumping maybe it’s somebody that you just really want to beat very bad, so you get the nervousness, anxiety, just playing for nothing that’s fine too.

So whatever gets the adrenaline going, whatever gets you to focus, that’s what’s going to get you better. Because when we get out on the course, every time that we’re going to play for anything that matters, you’re going to be nervous.

It’s how well you handle those nerves, how much you love being in the nerves, and love being in the action that’s going to allow you to make the putt, or to hit the great shot.

So this is a great game for that, works on speed control, works on really focusing, and it works on the competitive and the pressure side of it too.

So good luck to you guys, I love playing 21, this is my favorite putting game. Hope you guys enjoy it also.