Why You Need This:

In this video, “How to Stop 3 Putting with Less Speed | Learn to Use The Entire Hole!”, you’ll discover a putting tip that gets too little attention.

Every player wants to know how to stop 3 putting.

It’s one of the most frustrating things that can happen in golf.

Have you ever hit two fantastic shots to reach a par 5 in two, only to 3 putt and make par?

I know I have.

I was so mad, I wanted to introduce my putter to the closest tree.

One thing that most people don’t know is that they have been taught to hit their putts WAYYY too hard.

If you’re rolling the ball 3 or 4 feet past the hole, you’re falling victim to this mistake.

In this video you’ll find out how putting with the wrong speed can shrink the whole by 40-60% for most players, or more!

Watch this video to start getting the correct speed and slash your number of 3 putts.

What's Covered: Tips on controlling your putt speed and getting the ball to die in the hole.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:11

Video Transcription:

Are you sick and tired of 3 putting over and over again? It’s absolutely the most frustrating you can do on the green.

Well in today’s video I want to talk about how you’re going to make a lot more putts, and eliminate your 3 putting by doing perfect distance control.

So let me go ahead and explain why Jack Nicklaus always said that he wanted the ball to die in the hole, and some of the best putters putt where the ball just barely dies in the hole.

So if I have this putt here, let’s imagine that I’m putting to this cup. Now if I putt the ball at a speed to where it’s barely going to fall in the cup, so if I imagine and take this ball, it rolls up, stops right by the edge, barely the ball’s over the cup, it’s going to fall right in.

If I start to putt that a little bit faster, maybe where it would have rolled a foot by the cup, it barely touches its edge, it’s going to lip out. There’s not enough time for gravity to pull the ball down into the cup.

So the faster you putt, the smaller, and the smaller that hole gets. So to putt a little science behind this, it’s going to be a little different depending on whether you’re uphill or downhill, or the speed of the greens.

But every six inches that I go past this cup, I’m going to lose about seven and a half percent of the cup itself. So a lot of people try to putt three feet past which means the cup is going to be 45 percent smaller.

So this cup is shrinking, and shrinking, and shrinking, until you only have this little sliver left in the middle if you’re putting three feet past.

If you’re putting six or six and a half feet past, the cup completely disappears and even if you roll right over the center of the cup, we can go right over the center of this cup, but we’re putting too fast, it’s going to bounce out.

That wasn’t quite fast enough. Putting too fast, it’s going to pop out and you get the idea of what I mean, and the cup is getting smaller, and smaller.

So I have to hit the exact center of the cup or its going to lip out, pop out, and it’s not going to go in.

You can see how that last one popped out and wanted to come out, it just happened to fall back in.

So what we want to do, is we want to picture that we’re going to die every single putt into the cup, and if we happen to miss, I want to miss six inches past the cup.

Now the reason we don’t say just right at the cup, because nobody’s consistent enough to hit it right at the cup every time. We want to get it to roll a little bit fast, so we don’t leave a lot of putts short.

But I want every single putt to be dying in the cup so we can use most of it, and if you’re just six inches behind, you’re going to be right around 92 or 93 percent of the cup width, and you’re going to make a lot of putts doing that.

So now, let me go ahead and grab a piece of string, and I’m going to show you a great drill that’s going to help you to ingrain this.

All right, I’ve got a great game for you now to really practice your speed control, this is the best one that I’ve found. It’s called the string drill, and I’m going to get a 10-foot putt going uphill, and I’m just going to lay a small piece of nylon string on the ground.

You want the string to be thin enough to where the ball can easily just roll right oer top of that. What I’m going to do is I’m going to try and hit five putts in a row that are within six inches of this string.

So I’m going to go ahead and set up here, I’m going to pretend in my mind like it’s just going to rest against that string, and as I putt, there we go, just barely rolled over it.

So that was a perfect putt, it’s within six inches. I’m going to get five in a row from 10 feet uphill. This is the first step of level one.

Level two, I’m going to now go 10 feet above, after I’ve gotten five in a row from down there, I’m going to go 10 feet above and roll some putts back down within six inches from 10 feet going downhill.

Gets a lot tougher, those downhill putts really want to roll away from you. After we do that, level two is going to be from 15 feet away, five in a row from 15 feet below, five in a row from 15 feet above.

You don’t have to do all these in one day, if you want to break it down into several days or several weeks that’s fine.

Then advanced, we want to get to that pro caliber level, ultimate speed control, we’re going to go as far as 20 feet away, five in a row. 20 feet downhill, getting within six inches of the string five times in a row is very, very difficult.

If you can do that, you’re an absolute pro at speed control and you’re never going to 3 putt again. Because this hole is going to be, you’re going to be no more than a foot away from that hole from just about anywhere on the green.

So good luck to you guys, work hard on that speed control, you’re going to make the cup bigger, you’re going to drain more putts, and you’re going to completely eliminate your 3 putts.

I’ll see you guys soon.