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Originally Posted by BrianL99
For those of you who think Putting is so damn important, here's a practical test you can try, the next time you play golf.
Give yourself, EVERY putt that's within the length of your Putter (36"). In The Villages, most everyone does that, anyway.
For putts between 3' - 8', give yourself ONE of them. Putt the rest, keeping the above in mind.
Your score at the end of the day, will be what it would be, if a PGA Tour Player was doing your putting.
[Statistically, PGA Tour Pros make about 95% of their 3' putts and 50% of their 8' putts. Amateurs make about 40% of their 8' putts.)
I bet you your score won't improve as much as you think.
What's that prove? Your putting is likely no where near as bad as you think it is and improved putting is not the way to lower scores. At best, you're likely to improve a couple of strokes. Big deal. So you shoot 94 instead of 97?
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I guess I oversimplfy things, but I have found that I usually score better in rounds where I have 30 putts than rounds where I have 36 putts. So, for me, that makes putting kinda important.
Not sure what to make of your last sentence. A three stroke improvement in someone's handicap is not a big deal? Maybe not for elite golfers (still hard to believe), but for the guy dipping into the teens for the first time it is. For the guy going from double digit to single digit it is. I've been making steady progress down the past few months, and the majority of it I attribute to improvement on and around the greens. And of course, playing smarter MOST of the time. So that you don't think I'm a complete contrarion, improved accuracy on approach is probably what I need to make that next step down. And I think GAPS (one element or another) is the main hinderence to that.