No matter how good you are or how close you hit it, you're always going to have to make these putts -- whether they're for birdies, pars or bogeys.
Inever see my peers, and I very rarely see the amateurs I play with in pro-ams try to make three- and four-footers on the practice green. They're always working on their strokes, studying where their putter goes back. But I want you to pay attention to the process here, to help you make more putts.
When I go to line-up a putt, I want to make sure I pick out the line, that I trust my first instinct, and once I see it, I commit to that whole process. I don't want to spend a lot of time second-guessing myself.
So I know this putt is fairly straight and I'm going to get up and set my putter behind the ball; look at the ball once, look at it again; and then I'm going to go with it.
I want you to notice when I hit the next putt: Once I look from the hole back to the ball, the time it takes me to take that putter away is very short. This is going to keep you committed and not let you wander with your mind.