Drive for show and putt for dough.

These games are all about finally making time on the putting green less painstaking and possibly turning putting practice into your new favorite hobby. 

 
 
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Five under/five over

Mark multiple spots with tees around a hole. Your first putt if for birdie, and your second one is for par. Keeping going around and putting from your marks until you are five shot under or over par. To get even better, mark your spots from three feet at first, then do it at five feet, then seven. 

 

Credit: Me and My Golf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mukWVmuwj4


Tick-Tack-Toe

This one requires a bit of set up. Use tape or string to make a tick-tack-toe board on a flat part of the putting green. Grab a few balls each and take turns with another person putting to the different sections of the board. The first player to have a ball in three sections in a row wins. To add a new layer to the game, play where, if another player puts a ball in same section as another, they cancel out and you remove both balls. 

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Long putt target practice

Take some tees and mark a three foot wide circle around a hole or an open area on the green. Try to get putts from over ten feet to stop inside the circle. See how many you get in a row to stop inside the circle. Every day you try this, try to beat your record from the day before. To make it harder, make the circle smaller and smaller. This way, even if you don't hole the putt, you only have a tap in left. No more nerve racking four footers for par!