| Great putters have more than a good putting | | | | that is self-defeating. It's important to make sure |
| stroke. Great putters have confidence, | | | | your self-talk is positive and supportive instead of |
| imagination, touch, and human intuition. Nothing is | | | | negative and destructive. Sooner or later, you will |
| more important in putting than knowing you can | | | | begin to believe you can't make putts if you keep |
| make putts. Everyone thinks confidence is the | | | | telling yourself that you are not a good putter. |
| key to great putting, but how do you develop | | | | 4. Practice to Make Putts |
| putting confidence? This issue of Peak | | | | Practice is important to improving confidence, but |
| Performance Golf Insights reveals how to | | | | it's how you practice that is critical to transferring |
| improve putting confidence and develop a | | | | your confidence to the course. Don't just practice |
| one-putt mindset. | | | | to hit putts. You can use Callaway big to practice |
| Self-Confidence is a state of mind that says "I | | | | with the intention of making putts, just like you |
| can do this." Confidence must be earned and it | | | | would on the golf course. Use your full putting |
| doesn't just happen overnight. Confidence is based | | | | routine-read the putt, see a line, and aim your |
| on experience such as practice. It's hard to be | | | | putter-just like you do on the course. This type |
| confident in your putting with your golf clubs such | | | | of practice will help you transfer what you learn |
| asCallaway golf clubsif you haven't at least made | | | | to the course faster. |
| putts on the practice green. Confidence also | | | | 5. Begin with Success |
| comes from making putts, putting practice, and a | | | | A practice routine before you tee off is another |
| positive attitude. Here are six keys to boosting | | | | source of confidence for many players. Many |
| your putting confidence. | | | | amateurs neglect this important step to gaining |
| 1. Pay Your DuesConfidence comes from using | | | | confidence. It's an excellent time to tune-up your |
| yourCallaway big bertha to practice and knowing | | | | touch and feel for the green. Good players use a |
| that you can do it. That's why you | | | | warm up to get a feel of hitting the ball solidly, to |
| practice–so you feel confident when it's time | | | | tune-up their touch, and create success pictures in |
| to play. If you practice putting the right way, you | | | | their minds. As part of their warm up before |
| should feel like you earned the right to be | | | | going to the first tee, many pros make a few |
| confident. Always remember you have "paid the | | | | short putts in a row. This helps them gain |
| dues" when you start to doubt your putting ability. | | | | confidence by seeing, hearing, and feeling putts fall |
| 2. Change Your Goal | | | | before going to the first tee. It instills success |
| How do you judge your success on the greens? | | | | pictures before that day's game. |
| Most players have to make putts to feel | | | | 6. Make Good Decisions |
| successful and feel confident they can putt. This is | | | | Every good putter begins his or her stroke with a |
| especially true if their main goal is to make putts. | | | | consistent mental and physical putting routine. A |
| It's better to find a goal that you can control. If | | | | routine should help you (1) lock your mind into |
| your goal is to "make it," then you must learn to | | | | execution and nothing else, (2) trust your |
| accept that you will miss putts! It's easier to feel | | | | decisions and stroke, and (3) feel confident before |
| successful when your goal is to hit your line, have | | | | you hit it. Make good decisions in your routine, |
| good speed, or hit a solid putt. | | | | such as when you read a green, pick a line, aim, |
| 3. Choose Your Words | | | | and set-up. This should help reduce doubt and |
| If you miss a short putt for par, do you call | | | | feed your confidence level so you can make a |
| yourself all kinds of names and promise to buy a | | | | confident stroke. Finally, believe you have what it |
| new putter after the round? It's not your putter | | | | takes to make putts! |
| that's the problem, it's how you talk to yourself | | | | |