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Being able to read greens correctly is a very important part of improving your game. There are many different factors that you need to consider before putting the ball. So here are a couple of steps you need to do to help you read the greens correctly.
The best way to deal with sloping greens and breaking putts is to treat every putt as if it is perfectly straight. Now you might be wondering what on earth I am talking about, but it is actually quite simple and this is how it works:
Step 1: Firstly you have to identify how much a particular putt is going to break. Let’s say that that this putt is going to break two feet or 60 centimetres from the right. The hole itself now ceases to be your target. You now have a new target that is 2 feet or 60 centimetres to the right of the actual hole. So imagine that the hole has moved two feet to the right and putt the ball as if it is a straight putt.
Step 2: When going through your practice routine, aim the putter face and align your body as if you were putting the ball two feet to the right of the hole. You should focus on the imaginary hole two feet to the right of the actual hole.
Step 3: Now hit your putt straight to the imaginary hole two feet to the right of the actual hole and let the slope of the green take care of the rest.
The main reason for using this approach to putting on a sloped green is that you are more likely to make a pure solid putting stroke when putting the ball straight than when you are trying to guide the ball on a breaking putt. I hope this helps you to improve your putting.
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