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The 3 putt has to be one of the most annoying parts of your game, particularly when you hit the green in regulation shots. This article will help you to solve this problem and invest in a few sure pre shot routines to secure two putts from long distances.

The majority of 3 putts occur from not being able to read the pace of the green, and therefore either come up too short or too long with their first attempt.

Step one- should be the ability to read long putts, this should be done firstly with identifying the apex point between your ball and the hole itself. The apex is the maximum point of break that the ball will travel to before it then starts to taper in direction back to the hole. This should be identified quite simply as a percentage figure, an example being that on a forty foot putt for instance the ball will reach a maximum apex at eighty percent before it starts to make its way back towards the hole-ie eighty percent of forty foot roughly equates to 30-35 foot.

Step Two-We need to then think about how much energy/power is required for the ball to travel what we have already established is the remaining twenty percent of its distance. The apex therefore of a long putt becomes the critical focus point for both distance and alignment. It almost becomes more important than the actual hole itself. Often referred by racing drivers as the apex of a racing corner, which is what their line is when they are trying to negotiate a fast bend. Distance control with the main focus now on the apex and the remaining energy the ball will need to take to the ole itself must be now practiced in the pre shot routine. The best way to do this is simply to identify the apex of a long putt with maybe a circular area with a 20 cm circumference. This area must now be a forefront in the golfers mind, simply once identified make practice putts to the apex whilst looking at the identified area and not at the golf ball itself. NOTE if you are looking at the target you are more likely to get the length of stroke correct in the practice swing. The important aspect now is to try to concentrate on the actual feel of the swing when the club is going back and forth, this is not a mathmatical science but is something that the individual will be able to feel over time and with practice.

Step Three- Ball at Apex As a golfer we need to identify the lie of the land-ie from the apex does the ball travel down hill or uphill for the remaining part of its journey?? More commonly it will travel downhill so we will need to allow for this distance in the pre shot applied stroke. The putt now becomes a two part equation of percentages ie percentage to apex and percentage apex to flag. If we have identified the apex correctly our alignment and align to the flag will improve significantly and a simple two step equation will most certainly result in far more consistent long putts for two putt tap ins.