If you look like me, don’t leave much time for your round to be warmed up. Whether it is bad time management, unexpected traffic or just hubris, I rarely come to the track with a lot of time before I hit my opening -tee -shot.
On a course where I am not familiar with the greens, this can mean a disaster on the first few holes. If I get no idea for the greens for a round, the first few puts can be one small A bit shaky. Instead of trying putts out of the jump, I usually just don’t try to be to three putt.
It is sufficient to say, this is not The wisest strategy. If you want to maximize your round, it is important to feel on the greens from the start.
For help achieving that, Golf Top 100 Teacher Trent Wearner has a great routine that you can use before your next round. View it below.
Learn the green speeds with this warm -up routine
Golf coaches often hear students say: “The Green exercise felt much different from the greens on the course.” Unless the practice that green places was recently rebuilt, that difference is usually in your head. Superintendents do not maintain the exercise green to be wild differently than the course – that’s what it feels like.
The reality is that every putt you encounter on the track has a slightly different speed due to slope, grain, moisture and other variables. That is why you must warm up on “getting the speed” in a traditional sense, and more to adapt and adjust.
Instead of rolling a set of putts on a flat area to “call in the speed”, try this warm-up routine.
Find a hole on the practice green with a moderate slope – nothing too steep, but certainly not flat. Start with just one ball, start with a 5-foot uphill putty putt. Make or miss, go to the other side and hit a 5-foot downhill putt. Repeat this process with 10-legs, then 15-legs and continue in steps of 5 feet as far as you want. Always alternate between uphill and downhill.
This routine forces you to constantly adapt to changing speeds and slopes – just like you have to do on the track. Ironically, the best way to get used to the speed of the greens is not Trying to get used to a single, consistent speed. Instead, train your feelings and responsiveness.
By warming up in this way, you walk to the first tee more prepared for the Real-World circumstances that you go on.
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