Skills Assessment Challenge: Putting
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Get your Chipping Rings here. Have you developed a true sense of control of the clubface and is your trail hand ready to move to the next phase? Take this Skills Assessment Test to see where you're at and if you're ready to move onto bigger strokes.
The putting skills assessment test is going to test multiple facets of your game.
The first drill that you saw here is a 10 footer straight putt.
Level ground, nothing special.
What you're really testing here is your consistency, your repeatability.
How much control and sensitivity do you have in these middle two fingers of your trail hand, which are so important for every aspect of the stroke, especially as we get into the longer clubs and bigger swings.
What you're working on here is consistency.
You're just trying to hit the exact same putt over and over again as close as you can.
Your aim from 10 feet is to hit 60%.
I do it in sets of five.
I try to make at least three out of five on every set from 10 feet with a dead straight putter, as close to straight as I can get.
If you hit 10, you're aiming for six out of 10.
What you're wanting to do is that you can consistently hit that number or beat it every single time before you move on to the next step.
If you can't, you're really not ready.
You don't have the sensitivity.
Your brain hasn't had time to make the connection between what these two fingers sense and what your brain is doing to control this club face.
That's what's so important about this phase of the program is that you've got to learn to control that club face.
So, once you learn that and you'll know as you go through these self-assessment tests, Whether or not you truly have control over that club and you're training this trail, hand and your mind to control that face.
Now let's move on to the next phase of the test.
So, once you've done this 10 -foot test and you can consistently hit about 60%, make 60% of those putts.
We're next going to move back a little bit further and we're going to start working on our distance, control and feel.
For this phase of the drill, you're going to need something like a chipping ring.
I've put a link to the ones that I'm using here in the description in the video below.
But basically, What you're doing is using a three-foot chipping ring that's going to give you a foot and a half on either side of the hole.
And we're stepping back to 30 feet and we want a little bit more of a challenging breaking putt here.
So you can see I'm going down a second tier and then several feet of left to right break.
So this one really is going to test my feel and sensitivity and control to make sure that every single putt ends up inside of that chipping ring.
My goal is again to get three out of five, but we're not trying to make all the putts like we are in the 10-footer, of course that would be great if we can, but what you're really trying to do is make sure that your next putt from 30 feet is a true kick in.
So that's really what you're aiming for here.
And that's what the chipping ring is so helpful for.
Because when you fold it in half, like, I have it here, you can start to hit, get your putts to stay inside that ring and it gives you a focus point.
This part of the self-assessment is all about feel and sensitivity and touch.
You've got to learn to feel how to hit the ball in the center of the face to get the same roll, The same distance every time, and that really comes down to feeling the club in your middle, two fingers of your trail hand.
If you don't have that sense of feel, You're never going to be able to be consistent and you're not going to be able to control the irons and driver as we move on in the program.
So this drill is pretty simple, but it really is going to test your sensitivity, your touch, your feel, your control, your ability to concentrate.
So what I have here is a chipping ring, a three-foot chipping ring that I've got set in half.
So I don't want the ball to roll over because I don't want that to interfere with the putt.
But your aim here is to go back from 10 feet where we were earlier to now 30 feet.
And at 30 feet, we're not going to make very many of those putts, but we need to be able to make sure every single one is within kick in distance, if you will.
And that's what this drill is really teaching you.
So what you'll find is that I've got the, The three foot chipping ring gives me about a foot and a half, or about 18 inches, on either side of the hole.
And what you'll see here, let me show you, is that we have, what we have is the putts all have to make it past the hole.
So you can see in this case, the way I have the chipping ring set up, they all made it past the hole.
Well, one of them went outside of my zone there.
So I got four out of five that were good.
You're aiming for again, three out of five, 60%.
If you can get 60 % to stay in this chipping ring that they made it all past the hole, which all of these did.
I don't want anything to come up short because if it comes up short, you've got no chance of making it.
But if you get all of them or three out of five within that chipping ring, those are all just kick-ins from 30 feet.
You're going to be very, very happy if all of your putts are kick-ins.
And even the one I missed is only about two feet away.
And with that one, I'm probably still going to make that the vast majority of the time.
So that's what you're testing here.
The 10-foot drill is going to give you the ability to know that you can consistently make those must-make putts for par inside of 10 feet.
And you've got a repeatable stroke.
And this one is going to make sure that when you're not as close to the hole, you're not going to three-putt, or if you need to get up and down to save a par, you've got that in the bag.
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