It's that small tin cup...

That's got us all in a pickle.

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I am sure there are magnetic forces in our eyes that are attracted by the tin cup when putting. Your pro, the tip columns in golf mags, in fact everyone who knows the game would tell you to keep your eyes on the ground immediately after you strike the ball.

We all know this, we practice that way but when we get onto the course it's uncanny how we contort our bodies to see where that ball is going as soon as it has been struck.

I have heard a few good tips on how to combat this, from keeping your left eye closed to listening for the ball going in.

I've tried them all and although they do work to a certain extent, I find that I am thinking about negatives during my putts.

I decided to look once again to similar motor skills and figure out what we do differently with them.

After much deliberation I realised that we focus too much on the ball and our feet when we are preparing to putt and not enough on the target.

The ball is not going to move and we can place our feet in a comfortable aiming position without checking them several times.

All other sportsmen are focussed on the target for at least 80-100% of the pre-shot routine but golfers often focus upto 90% of the time on the ball, feet etc.

I decided to shift my focus more on the target and have adopted a new technique where I refuse to look at the ball during my practice moves.

With my eyes already directed towards the target there's no need to turn my head during the practice swings.

In doing so I have given my eyes a generous view of my target and have ingrained the feeling of keeping my head still.

I have also had great results keeping my eyes on the target during the actual putt but somehow, during competition, negatives enter my thoughts and results suffer.

Get your eyes to focus more than half the time on the target and you will sink more putts.

Get up to 80% or more target focus and you'll start achieving sub 30 putt rounds.

I'm not promising but guaranteeing it.

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