Four Putts

[RBAKER]

Okay, I've heard of three putting but every now and then I will get a four putt.

Any advice on this. Its usually when I have a super long one to begin with.


RB

[Big Johnny69]

For some reason the laptop here at work won't let me copy and paste, but check out the "Figuring the break of a putt....(or titled something like that)" thread here in the instruction forum. Some good tips on putting that should help you.

[jeffc]

As Fuzzy Zoeller once replied, when asked, how did you four putt? I missed it. I missed it. I missed it. I made it.

Usually a 4 putt is the result of being in an extremely difficult putting position, or have a complete brain meltdown. The goal on the first putt is to get it close (if its a long putt) to say within a 3 ft radius. After that just try to make it but don't knock it 3 feet by. The goal is lagging the first one close enough.

[RBAKER]

Yes, I bet trying to get that 40 FT Birdie didn't help!!

As Fuzzy Zoeller once replied, when asked, how did you four putt? I missed it. I missed it. I missed it. I made it.

Usually a 4 putt is the result of being in an extremely difficult putting position, or have a complete brain meltdown. The goal on the first putt is to get it close (if its a long putt) to say within a 3 ft radius. After that just try to make it but don't knock it 3 feet by. The goal is lagging the first one close enough.

[jvincent]

Look at it this way, at least a four-putt is better than a five-putt.

Just ask Phil Mickelson about his five-putt at the 2002 Players.

[Weazl]

When facing a long putt its important to properly lag the first putt to the hople and get it within 5-8ft. if that can be done you should never 4 putt. Take your time and read the green from all angles.

[Hank Hill]

It happens, I have 4 putted after lipping out the first putt (quite a severe lip out that then caught a slope) and ended up 10 feet past, I then burned the edge of the cup with putt 2 but it went 5ft past, left putt 3 on the lip and tapped in the 4th. I put it down to being too aggressive with the first 2 putts and a bit of bad luck.

[RBAKER]

oh Boy, does this sound familiar.

It happens, I have 4 putted after lipping out the first putt (quite a severe lip out that then caught a slope) and ended up 10 feet past, I then burned the edge of the cup with putt 2 but it went 5ft past, left putt 3 on the lip and tapped in the 4th. I put it down to being too aggressive with the first 2 putts and a bit of bad luck.

[Kiwi]

Recommend practice. When I multi-putt is is usually out of fear of being short/long on the first putt. This usually happens on a new course. Go to the local range with a large putting surface, or your club and practice lagging puts inside 6 feet. Do up hill, side hill, down hill. Won't come all at once but you should incorporate into your weekly putting drills.

[RBAKER]

Thanks for the advice, it is well taken.

RB

Recommend practice. When I multi-putt is is usually out of fear of being short/long on the first putt. This usually happens on a new course. Go to the local range with a large putting surface, or your club and practice lagging puts inside 6 feet. Do up hill, side hill, down hill. Won't come all at once but you should incorporate into your weekly putting drills.

[Kiwi]

Never had a thought of a four putt this year, until reading this post. Had my first today. 90', left it short; 15' lip out, 4' past; gagged coming back, leaving me a 1' for double bogey. Only hole that I was on fairway off tee and GIR.
Back to the Range...

[BC MIST]

Okay, I've heard of three putting but every now and then I will get a four putt.

So? Crap happens. In the last group, last round of an invitational at Whiteface, in Lake Placid, I once 8 putted the first green. Birdied the next. Just forget about it. We all do it. Some admit it.

[jeffc]

ok. I'll bite. how does someone 8 putt a green?

[Hank Hill]

Wow, 5 is my record.....but 8. At least you are man enough to admit it, take your lumps and move on. I know someone who if they miss the second putt, they kind of lazily reach across the hole and half assedly thwack at the ball in the general direction of the hole, miss and sigh "damn 3 putts". What! Not man enough to line up putt 3 and put yourself on the line with a possible 4 putt? A real golfer continues until the ball is in the cup (matchplay gimmes aside).

[ironmaster15213]

So? Crap happens. In the last group, last round of an invitational at Whiteface, in Lake Placid, I once 8 putted the first green. Birdied the next. Just forget about it. We all do it. Some admit it.

.......I don't even begin to have a good enough imagination to think how you could do that unless it was one of those times that the greens keeper had a fight with his wife the night before and decided to torture everybody by putting the hole in the middle of a plateaued green on the downslope