Why You Need This:

In today’s video, “Putting Stroke Tempo & Timing | How to Smooooth Your Roll”, I’ll show you how the pros putt so smoothly and effortlessly…

Do you feel like you have a jab in your stroke?

No matter how smooth you try to be, the hitch won’t leave!

It’s extremely frustrating…

If you want to have a smooth, repeatable stroke, it’s crucial that you master your putting stroke tempo and length.

This will allow you to “feel” every inch of the putt.

In today’s video you’ll learn how to even out your stroke with a great training aid called the “Stroke Meter.”

This device forces you to swing back and through a similar length and automatically smooths out the stroke.

Watch this video today to start improving your IMMEDIATELY!

What's Covered: How to smooth your stroke and tempo, using the "Stroke Meter" training device.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:46

Video Transcription:

OK, so we’ve got the perfectly grooved stroke, we’re learning to read the greens in this system. We also need to have timing and tempo, so even if your stroke is really good, you’re moving your body properly, you have that ingrained, if we start to get quick we start to get jabby at all, we’re going to start to miss a lot of putts.

So it’s very important to have a stroke that’s pretty equal as we go back, and as we go through. We don’t want to have a really long backswing. When I see people that are putting very, very poorly, they’re missing the short putts, the number one thing that I see is happening, is their backswing is really long and then they’re having to decelerate as they’re coming through.

That makes that face really unstable, and it can easily kick to the left or kick to the right.

So I would say this is probably the number one thing if you’re really struggling on the greens, you’re probably mixing up having too long of a backstroke and then decelerating, having a poor tempo and it’s not very even.

So I have a cool training aid here from EyeLine Golf called the stroke meter. You can set this down you can see from the inside it has a little gray section, this is going to be very short putts.

Green is a little bit longer, then yellow, red, dark gray, and then black, and what you can do is you can put a couple sticks down into the holes that are in this stroke meter.

Now as I set up to my putt, I’m going to make a backstroke and I’m going to make sure that I don’t want to tap this meter here, or this stick, and as I come through I don’t want to tap that one.

It’s going to keep me nice and easy, back and through so that I’m making sure that I’m accelerating through the putt but I’m not knocking into those sticks.

A lot of people, if you’re struggling, what you’ll see on your backswing, is that instead of missing the stick, you’re going to go back and whack into the stick and then feel like you’re having to really shorten up your backswing.

That’s going to help you to always accelerate through the ball, you want to have that nice even tempo and even pace.

There’s other drills that we’re going to work on to get the tempo even more, but I want you to feel very, very smooth. Now a couple of things as you’re doing this that I want you to focus in on that’s going to help you to get smoother.

Number one, as I take my grip I want to have really, really light grip pressure. I want to feel like I’m barely holding on to this putter.

As I come back and through, I want to concentrate and make sure that my grip pressure isn’t changing at all. So I don’t want to feel like I’m squeezing or tightening up on this grip at all, I’m going to be nice and relaxed, back and through.

Number two, I want to feel like my transitions are really, really smooth. So from having the putter still behind the ball, to when it very first starts back it’s going to be very slow and smooth.

As I stop taking the putter back and I transition to the foreword stroke, so that change in direction from back to through, I want my transition there to be very smooth and as I come through to the finish, I want that to be very smooth and I’m actually going to hold my finish position.

So if I do this correctly it’s going to look something like this, nice and smooth in both directions, you see how none of the transitions are sharp or jerky at all. Again, when you’re putting bad you tend to get quick, really pop that putter.

There are some guys that putt good with a little bit of a quicker tempo, but in general a good rule of thumb is the slower, the smoother, the softer we can be, there better that we’re going to putt.

So work on this, great stroke meter, great tool to really work on evening that out. So you’ll feel immediate feedback right when you’re over the ball, it’s going to bash into the back stick.

Number two, light grip pressure. Number three, have those easy, smooth transitions, and you’re going to be rolling the ball consistent time after time again.

Good luck to you guys, work hard. What I want you to do for this, is if you have a stroke meter, go ahead and put this down. I want you to hit 100 putts in a row from 6 to 12 feet.

We can go a little farther back as you’re practicing this you don’t have to make them, but I want to make sure that your stroke is nice and easy, and you’re not hitting into the sticks as you’re coming through.

So we’re going to go a little wider with these sticks, depending on the speed of the greens, you can adjust that to your own individual green.

So 100 strokes, evening out that putting distance back and through, and you guys are going to feel a lot more confident over the ball.