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Great Putting Game

This is one of my go-to putting games to improve lag putting, second-putt focus, and handling pressure. You’ll need three balls and ideally access to four holes on a practice green. (Adjust as needed if fewer holes are available.)

How to Play

1. Choose a starting spot where all three of your first putts (to Holes 1, 2, and 3) are in the 25–45 foot range.

2. Drop your three balls.

3. Putt each ball from your starting spot:

   • Ball 1 to Hole 1

   • Ball 2 to Hole 2

   • Ball 3 to Hole 3

4. Walk to Hole 1. Keep putting until the ball is in the hole. Track how many total putts it takes. After you hole out, take the ball and putt it back towards Hole 4.

5. Repeat this at Hole 2 and Hole 3, each time putting the ball to Hole 4 after you hole out.

6. Walk back to the three balls you hit back towards hole four. One at a time, hole out each ball into hole four.

You’ve now completed a “6-hole loop”. You basically go from the starting point to holes 1, 2 and 3. And then you go from holes 1, 2 and 3 back to hole 4. That is 6 total “holes”.

How You Complete The Game

• You must complete each 6-hole loop in 12 putts or fewer.

• If you take 13 or more putts, you must start that loop over from the beginning.

• Your goal is to successfully complete three separate 6-hole loops, each under the 12-putt limit.

Once you complete Loop 1 in 12 putts or fewer, you can move on to Loop 2. If you fail Loop 2, just restart at Loop 2, you do not need to go all the way back to Loop 1.

Same holds true for Loop 3. Once you get to Loop 3, if you fail, you just re-start at Loop 3.

Tips

• Rotate your starting position for each new loop to challenge yourself with different slopes/reads.

• This game really punishes poor lag putting. Get that speed DIALED.

• Track how many attempts it takes to complete all three loops. Try to reduce that over time. A perfect score would completing each loop on your first attempt (meaning you never three-putt).

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