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Putting Practice: Month 5

For 2022 I set a goal of achieving 70% putting from 25 feet. That seems attainable enough, and if I go higher than that, well, all the better.

I’m reworking my putting style. There are a few reasons for that.

First, one of my disc golf pro favorites, Scott Stokely, recently decided that he needed to take a few weeks off the Tour to work on a new putting style. Heck, if he can do that, why am I married to the way I do things?

Also, I’ve been impressed with Catrina Allen’s improved putting this year, so I decided to watch how she does it. I discovered that she throws a hyzer putt that enters the basket at around a 30- to 40-degree angle. Hmmmm…

Finally, I noticed that in general I am not putting in a standard way.

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Putting Practice: Month 4

For 2022 I set a goal of achieving 70% putting from 25 feet. That seems attainable enough, and if I go higher than that, well, all the better..

I’m about to give up on my resolve here. I am not practicing anywhere near as much as I’d hoped to. Why?

I don’t think it’s laziness. I’m still playing a lot, so I’m getting out there, and almost all that playing is working on other parts of my game and practicing on the courses I’ll be playing sanctioned rounds in on the weekend, whether in league or a tournament.

I’m working heavily on my disc golf game, but not directly on my putting. Having said that, I’ll also say that my putting in competitive rounds has seemed noticeably better.

Let me run down the numbers for my April Challenge, though, before I go any further.

tl;dr: In April I made 32 out of 50 putts for a score of 64%, the worst since January.

But there’s more to the story.

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Putting Practice: Month 3

For 2022 I set a goal of achieving 70% putting from 25 feet. That seems attainable enough, and if I go higher than that, well, all the better..

I’m working my way toward that goal by practicing regularly. Perhaps not regularly enough. I’m not throwing 1000 or 2000 putts a day. That would be great. But it’s not happening.

Now that I have my own basket, though, it’ll happen more often!

At the end of May I’m hitting the road with my partner, Fálki, for a prolonged journey. We will be living in our Aliner A-frame trailer and traveling all around the United States.

With that in mind, then, I bought a DGA Mach Lite Portable Disc Golf Basket.

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Putting Practice – Month 2

If you read my post last month about disc golf goals for 2022, you may remember that I set this goal:

  • 70% putting from 25 feet

I’m working my way toward that goal by practicing. Simply practicing.

I’m not going to lie: when the weather is bad, I’m not going out. When I first started playing a couple years ago, I was out in all kinds of weather, but I’m over that now. While I am fortunate to live in South Texas, and was, in fact, out playing today, February 14, 2022, in beautiful, sunny 65-degree weather, there were a lot of days during the past few weeks that were too cold or rainy for me.

So I didn’t practice as much as I wanted to.

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Disc Golf Goals for 2022

I’ve been playing disc golf for right at two years now. While I am happy with my progress so far, and while I win my MA60 age-protected division somewhat often, I still need a lot of work on my game.

As we began 2022, I saw a lot of posts on social media about disc golf goals. Most of the goals I’ve seen from other people are about improving their PDGA rating, throwing longer off the tee, getting more aces.

A chase for aces does not make sense for the way I want to play disc golf. Ace runs for me most often do not lead to easy birdies. My goal on an ace-runnable hole is an easy birdie.

One thing I’ve noticed, though, as I golf more with good players, is that they are invariably better putters than I am.

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