Putting

Most golfers spend their putting practice inside six feet because those misses hurt the most. The strokes gained math says the money is somewhere else entirely, and it is not close.

Two golfers hit the same number of greens and take the same number of putts, yet one shoots seven strokes better. The gap usually lives in a stat almost nobody tracks: how far away the first putt was.

Your three-putt avoidance rate lines up with handicap more reliably than almost any other putting number. Here is why, plus the benchmarks and the fix.

You think you putt well, but the only evidence is a gut feeling and a putt total that hides more than it shows. Here is the honest way to grade your putting.

Two golfers shoot 30 putts and have nothing in common. One putted out of his mind, the other left strokes on every green. The number alone never tells you which.

A 30-putt round can be excellent or terrible depending on how you got there. Here are real putts per round benchmarks by handicap, plus the context the raw number hides.