Tips For Your Short Game

Line and speed are the two factors in making putts, and both of these factors can be controlled. A player only needs to understand the relationship between the two factors in order to improve their short game. Gaining control over the speed and position are learned tricks that will improve your score, and the following article goes in-depth on how to improve your short game.

According to Dave Pelz, a former NASA scientist and short-game guru to many of the PGA Tour’s top players, the perfect speed to hit a putt is with enough pace so that if the putt had missed it would have gone seventeen inches beyond the cup. That speed, according to his research, will lip in more often than it will lip out and is the most consistent in holding the line while still going in when hitting the back of the cup.

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