For golfers who three-putt and can’t work out why
You’re not missing those putts because of your stroke.
Three quarters of amateurs under-read their putts — they play less break than the green actually has. And roughly 80% of putts missed from outside ten feet are lost to speed, not to line.
Almost everything you were ever taught about putting was about the stroke. This guide is about the other two.
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Putting is the largest single line on your scorecard.
Not the most glamorous — the largest. Count the putts on your next card and divide. For most club golfers the number lands north of a third of every stroke they take, and it’s the one part of the game that needs no distance, no flexibility and no swing speed to fix.
What changed while you weren’t looking
Putting instruction was rebuilt over the last fifteen years, mostly by stroke-capture systems like SAM PuttLab and TrackMan measuring what good putters actually do rather than what they say they do. Several things every golfer was told turned out to be the opposite of helpful.
Keeping your head perfectly still
Lock the head in place for the whole stroke. Any movement was treated as the cause of a missed putt.
Holding the head rigid loads tension into the neck and shoulders — the exact muscles that need to stay quiet. Most coaches now allow natural movement, particularly after impact, to keep the stroke fluid.
Straight back, straight through
Move the putter directly along the target line, back and through, with the face square to that line the whole way.
Stroke capture shows almost every elite putter works on a slight arc, the putter moving inside the line on both sides of the ball. Forcing a straight path fights the way your shoulders are hung.
Work on your stroke mechanics first
Groove the stroke and the putts will follow. Green reading was treated as instinct — something you either had or picked up over years.
Reading is at least as trainable as stroke, and it’s where most amateurs actually lose strokes. Around three quarters of club golfers play less break than the putt has, which is why so many misses finish on the low side.
Die the ball into the front edge
Roll every putt at the pace that would just topple it over the front lip, so a miss finishes stone dead.
A dying ball takes every imperfection in the last three feet. Speed is matched to the green and the situation instead — for most putts, enough pace to finish a foot or so past the hole holds its line better and still leaves a tap-in.
The guide keeps everything from the old instruction that held up under measurement, and replaces the parts that didn’t. It is not a beginner’s how-to-putt book. It assumes you already putt, and that something isn’t working.
What’s in it
114 pages, PDF. Seven sections, working from a self-diagnosis of what’s actually going wrong in your putting through to the drills that fix it.
- Self assessmentsA diagnosis flowchart that works backwards from your actual miss, plus make-rate benchmarks by distance and handicap so you can see where you really stand.pp. 3–10
- Putting myths and modern thinkingTen pieces of standard instruction, what measurement did to each of them, and what replaced them.pp. 11–27
- Research-backed tips for lower scoresFace control at impact, eye position, forward press, the pre-putt routine and the mental side — each with the study behind it.pp. 28–33
- How the top putting coaches teachPhil Kenyon’s system in detail — the coach behind Scheffler, McIlroy and Rahm — and how other leading coaches differ, with video.pp. 34–63
- Strategies on and around the greensSpeed against line, reading slope, reading other players’ ball marks, and reading a green with your feet.pp. 64–76
- Lessons and drillsStructured practice that doesn’t just groove your existing faults — one-handed distance work, the gate drill, capture speed.pp. 77–97
- Putting practiceGreen reading, distance control, tempo and visualisation drills you can take to a practice green tomorrow.pp. 98–113
Who this is for
A good fit if
- You already play regularly and putting is the part that costs you.
- You learned the game before 2010 and have never revisited your fundamentals.
- You three-putt more on fast greens than slow ones.
- You’ve tried a new putter and it didn’t help.
Not a good fit if
- You’ve never held a putter — start with a lesson instead.
- You want drills only, with no explanation of why.
- You’re looking for a swing guide. This covers putting and nothing else.
The same rethink happened on tour
Scottie Scheffler’s turnaround on the greens followed a putter change and reworked green reading, not a swing change. Steve Stricker has stayed among the best putters of his generation on subtle grip and setup adjustments rather than a rebuilt stroke. Bryson DeChambeau went the other way entirely and built a putter around his own mechanics.
Three very different answers. What they share is that none of them stuck with what they were originally taught.
Mentioned as public examples of changing technique. No affiliation with or endorsement by any player named.
Best Ever Putting Tips
$29
One in-person putting lesson runs $75–$150 and lasts an hour. This one doesn’t end.
- Instant download
- PDF, 114 pages
- Reads on any device
- Yours to keep
Read it, use it, and if it doesn’t help — keep it anyway
If you’re not satisfied for any reason, email us within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. You won’t be asked to return anything or justify the request. We’d rather lose the sale than have you resent it.
Questions
What format is it, and how do I get it?
A PDF, 114 pages. The download link appears on screen as soon as you check out and is emailed to you as well. It reads fine on a phone, a tablet, or printed.
Is this just things I could find on YouTube?
Partly, and it’s worth being straight about it. Two of the seven sections summarise instructional videos from coaches like Phil Kenyon, Brad Faxon and Dave Pelz and link to the originals — around twenty of them. The work there is the finding, the summarising and the order. The self-assessment, the myths section and the research chapter aren’t summaries of anything; they’re the guide’s own.
I’m a high handicapper. Is this over my head?
No, but it isn’t a first putting book either. It assumes you know how to hit a putt and want to know why yours don’t go in. If you’ve never played, a lesson is better value.
Do I need a new putter or any equipment?
No. Everything in it works with the putter in your bag. The chapters on grip styles and fitting are there if you want them, not as a prerequisite.
How long before I see a difference?
The self-assessment and the green-reading material you can use the next time you play — reading more break costs you nothing and takes no practice. Speed control and the drills take a few sessions on a practice green before they hold up under pressure. Anything that changes your stroke path or grip takes longer than that, and the guide says so.
Who wrote it?
It’s compiled and published by Master of the Greens rather than written by a single teaching pro. It draws on published research and instruction from Mark Broadie, Dave Pelz, Phil Kenyon, Brad Faxon and others, and names the source where a claim is made. If you want one coach’s system start to finish, buy that coach’s book. What this does is the sorting.
The next round you play, you’ll take about forty putts.
You get to decide how many of them are wasted.
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