Just before you go out on the course the standard routine on the putting green is to grab three balls, stand ten feet from the hole, miss all three putts and then stroll to the first tee, what a confidence booster, sounds familiar!! Then you find yourself on the 1st green and funny enough miss from the same distance!!

You should be achieving two things from your putting warm up, feel for the pace of the green and confidence to take to the course. So pop a tee peg into the ground somewhere on the green, take one ball and roll it up close. One ball because you only get one go when playing regular golf on the course and a tee peg because all you are working on is feel. If you miss it you are not worried and if you do hit it then that’s a real bonus as the tee is significantly smaller than a hole, all you are really trying to do is roll it up close.