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Here are some tips that will help you improve your putting. Good play on the greens will help you greatly improve your golf scores.

- Always visualize the path your ball will travel so that it will go
in the hole.

- Take a good look at the green and take into account any dips
that may cause your ball to change its direction, then compensate
your aim.

- Your putting swing should be a smooth, pendulum-like action
with no wrist break. Swing with your shoulders and you should
always keep your head down.

- Don’t be afraid to put enough speed on the ball so that it will
actually make it to the hole. There’s nothing worse than coming
up short on a putt.

On a final note make sure that you always keep your eye on the
ball and that any stance you take will allow you to see the ball
from every point of the stroke. Take your time and develop your
own methods that work best for you.

Remember to take any tips on your golf game that you can find
and try them out to see if they work. If they make your game better
work on improving them and if they don’t forget them.
After all, golfers can never have too many tips!

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Here’s a simple technique to improve your putting but, most likely, you are going to need a practice putting area at home so it may not be for everyone. However, chalk does not stay and will wash away so you may be able to try this at a local area.

Before you can expect to putt well on greens with a slope, you need to learn to putt well on the flat. This will train you to swing your putter through a straight line and hit the ball squarely on the face of the putter.

Now you need to get a putter that has a line on it that you can see clearly, as this will be the line that you will follow through to the center of the ball.

On the practice green (preferably one that you have at home, as this technique might not be appreciated) you will mark straight lines with a builders chalk line in several directions from the center of the hole spanning out around the green.

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