With half a dozen clubs and more than 3,000 regular golfers within a drive, chip and a put from Leighton town centre, the LBO has signed Leighton Buzzard Golf Club's PGA Advanced Professional coach Maurice Campbell to provide a monthly tip on how to improve your game and reduce that handicap.

Here is the third of golf doctor Maurice's tips for a healthier game:

Improving Your Feel For The Greens

Improving your putting is essential to improve your scores. It is an often neglected and overlooked part of the game. You can have a great stroke and still struggle if you don't have good feel for distance.
Distance control is an absolute must for holing more putts.

Don't stop working on your stroke at the practice green, but add this distance judging exercise to it. Set up three balls in a line 10 feet from the hole, and hit each of them with your eyes closed.

After hitting a few putts this way, you'll develop a lot more sensitivity to how far you hit the ball with a certain amount of force and to even the slightest miss-hit.

Making putts with your eyes closed is not as important as starting to develop a consistent roll. After 10 or 15 minutes, you should be able to roll each putt in the three ball series within a few inches of each other from 10 feet. As you get better, move back and practice the same drill from 20 feet. If practiced consistently this exercise will help you improve your scores.

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Good Golfing - Maurice Campbell, PGA Advanced Golf Professional, Golfing Machine Authorised Instructor, Sports NLP Master Practitioner, 01525 244815.