Putting Drill: Sweet Spot Strike with Rubber Bands
For this putting drill you’re going to be placing rubber bands around your putter head about a ball width apart. They should be positioned so that the golf ball can strike the sweet spot, dead center of the putter face and not interfere.
In other words, let the rubber bands sit just beyond the sweet spot on the putter face to act as guards.
This will give you feedback when you miss the sweet spot as the ball will make contact with the rubber bands instead if you don’t bring the putter face back square at impact.
You’ll likely need to double or triple wrap the rubber band around the putter head creating a thicker boundary rail, in order to use up and secure the rubber band from moving or sliding.
How to Do this Putting Drill:
- Once your rubber bands are positioned, all you have left to do is strike putts.
- Find a flat, straight putt to set up to and practice hitting the ball to the hole, trying to make it.
You’ll know when your putting stroke wasn’t straight and you didn’t make perfect, center sweet spot impact as the ball will go offline from hitting the rubber bands.
Give this putting drill a try and see your skills improve at hitting the sweet spot on the putter face.
Other Recommended Putting Drills:
Here are additional golf drills to help your short game skills improve and lower your golf scores consistently:
- Tiger Wood’s Double Gate Putting Drill
- Jordan Spieth’s Stare at the Cup Practice Drill
- Golf Putting Drills Routine for Speed Control
- 5 Best Putting Drills to Practice Like the Pro’s
Golf Practice Plans:
Try our step by step golf training plans that give you daily practice routines to complete. Each practice routine has putting drills, chipping drills, and golf swing drills for the driving range. Learn more about each.
