[usa1950]

I've never liked the "make 10 4 footers... make 10 6 footers.... make 10 8 footers" drills. Especially if it is the same putt, with the same break, over and over.

I prefer to take 6-8 balls, and spread them around a hole in a complete circle, 4 to 8 feet out. And then putt the balls out one by one. You have a different break on each (probably) and some will be uphill, some downhill, some sidehill. Make all 6-8 balls and you have accomplished something more than making 10 in a row from the same spot, imo.

That said, the few LPGA events I went to (back in the mid 90's) me and every other single guy at the event followed Vicki Goetze, a red hot little 22 year old Georgian who had previously beat Annika Sorenstam to win the US Women's Amatuer, and was the NCAA Champion at the same time, becmoing the first woman to hold both titles.

I had a All-Access PGA Tour Money Clip Credential (which the LPGA honored) that got me anywhere I wanted to go (not the shower with Miss Goetze, however) and I was talking to her caddie one day on the putting green. He was waiting for Vicki to come back to the green after her round, he said she did so every day.... and she did NOT leave for the day until she had made 100 four footers in a row. I thought it was BS, so I hung around a bit, talked to some club reps, other hangers on inside the ropes around the green.

Out she comes, the autograph hounds walk with her toward the putting green, and her caddie springs into action. He finds a flat four footer, gets out a ton of balls, puts them in a little pile four feet out, and goes and squats like a baseball catcher behind the hole. She starts putting, and is draining them one after the other after the other. I lose track of her, and was talking to someone else and really not watching her.... all of the sudden I hear a loud "SH1t!!!!! How many was that?" "77 says the caddie." "Shi1t!!!" And she started over again at 1, 2, 3.......

I will never forget it.