PUTTING CALIBRATION PART 4:

In Part 3, I indicated to putt well you must (1) read the break to line the putt up before addressing the ball, and (2) must line up the putt correctly at address.

This part 4 is short. BUT the point of this Part 4 is crucial. In order to instill the right mind's eye of reading the putt break line, the secret is that you have to FIRST LINE UP PUTTS AT ADDRESS AND PRACTICE PUTTING THEM into the hole to build up your mind's eye!

WHY?  This  is the secret:  practicing lining up and putting along the correct break line with "made" breaking putts is a pre-condition or reinforcement of building up your line up or putt break reading skills when lining up the putt before putting!  

The best way and the only essential way to build up your break reading ability to get the line of the putt clear in your mind's eye is by actually making the putt in the first place.  Every single golfer of any putting ability will tell you that they have good days and bad days of "reading the line" on a putt.  Sometimes you see the line as clear as a bell, and some days it's just plain hard or evem impossible to get the line down and to "see" it before standing up to the putt.  But the way to improve how to "see" or read the break line is by the practice of making that putt and watching it break into the hole repetitively - that is what builds up your "seeing the line" before you line it up!!

This is why making EACH PUTT  5 TIMES IN A ROW AND WATCHING IT GO IN BUILDS UP YOUR ABILITY TO READ THE PUTT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

In part 5, I will explain why a full array of putts has to be grooved to improve putting confidence and to build up your skill in reading the break.