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This Week's Topic: Improve your speed with the putter
LPGA Profesional: Jill McGill
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Judy Rankin: I am with Jill McGill and she is going to demonstrate a practice drill for us that will improve your speed with the putter.

I have set up here today two tees, one 30 feet from the hole and one approximately 20" behind the hole and the goal is to hit 10 putts in a row reaching the hole or just beyond it but not outside the tee.

When I am hitting the putts, I want to emulate exactly what I am doing on the golf course so everything becomes routine and is repetition. So I have chosen my line. I am looking at the hole and from here all I am thinking about is my speed.

Judy Rankin: So Jill this really is about your eye getting use to a certain distance and then repeating the stroke that rolls the ball a proper distance.

Exactly. You want to get the feel for how you roll the ball and how far, according to how big your stroke is, how far the ball is going to go. And the reason we're going to have 10 in a row is because when you are out there on a Saturday afternoon, when you need to get the big putt, you have already practiced being in those pressure situations, having to make them in a row.