Perfecting your putting stroke could be the key to unlocking lower scores and reducing your handicap in the 2025 season, and it couldn’t be simpler thanks to a common everyday item.
When working on your putting technique, there are a number of factors that can help to yield positive results.
Clearly, having one of the best putters on the market is great place to start, but putting time into putting drills away from the course will also be hugely beneficial to your game.
So, the next time you head to the practice putting green, be sure to pop inside to the clubhouse bar first and grab yourself a very basic but effective putting aid… a coffee stirrer.
Perfect Your Putting Stroke – PGA Professional Tips
Russell Covey
Russell’s students having notched up wins in the Spanish, French, Dutch, Scottish and English Amateur Championships and St Andrews Links Trophy. In 2021, he was named PGA Specialist Professional and PGA Specialist Coach.
His ability to help golfers of all abilities to improve their game is the reason he is recognised as one of the top 50 golf coaches in the UK.
Missing short putts is infuriating, especially for recreational golfers who often don’t know why they’re doing so. The most common miss I see when giving golf lessons to amateur golfers is a push, as many are thinking about the putting stroke going from straight to straight.
What typically happens then is that they lose the ability to keep the face perpendicular to the path; they try to keep it facing the target, often leading to an open-face push. Most people should have some form of an arc in their stroke.
You can find a coffee stirrer in most clubhouse bars, pro shops or certainly your local coffee shop – so why not utilise them to make you a better putter?
(Image credit: Olly Curtis)
I want you to stop focusing on where your path is coming from for a moment and remember that clubface is king.
Stick a coffee stick (stirrer) on your putter face, as I have done in the image above, and find a straight putt. In practice, this visual will help you to understand what’s going on with the face through the hitting zone.
The minute the face starts to rotate excessively, you’ll get a really good visual of it opening and closing. This should help you…
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