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BACK ON
TRACK
■ IT'S TIME TO SHARPEN THAT
RUSTY SHORT GAME BY JOEL BEERS
SPEED DRILLS
STRESS FACTOR
LEARN TO OVERCOME TENSION
BAD HABIT: Tensing up under pressure
on a big putt and losing control of speed.
GOOD HABIT FIX: Speed drills.
"I like to use a drill that Dave Pelz basi-
cally popularized. You get three golf balls
and put them 20 feet from the hole. Every
putt that winds up in the cup or within a put-
ter-length radius counts as one in a row. Ini-
tially, focus on making three in a row from
above the hole, and then three in a row from
20 feet below the hole. Every time you miss,
you start over at zero.
"Ideally, you want to make 10 of these in
a row. What happens is that as you get up to
seven or eight in a row, you start getting
nervous and your speed suffers as a result.
This drill helps train you for those situations
on the course when you're standing over a
must-make putt."
Practice
distance
control for
must-make
putts.
