Gary Player has a top tip for amateur golfers who want to stop three-putting immediately

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Gary Player is one of the greatest golfers to ever have graced the game.

Player won nine major championships and 24 PGA Tour titles through his illustrious career.

The now 89-year-old came from humble beginnings in South Africa and became one of the most famous names in our great sport.

Player has always offered his help to younger players trying to make it on the PGA Tour, and his experience and wisdom can be matched by few.

He is well known for helping out as many amateur golfers as he can as well.

Player is a fierce advocate of putting from off the green rather than chipping, and now he has given further advice to amateurs regarding how best to limit the amount of three-putts they have during their rounds.

Gary Player tells amateurs how to stop three-putting with one simple method

Player has highlighted how amateur golfers can improve their scores immediately purely by three-putting on fewer occasions throughout their rounds.

Three-putt avoidance is so important at every level of golf, and now the great South African has given a top tip for amateur golfers how to limit their mistakes on the greens.

In a YouTube video for Golfing World, Player laid out his very simple advice.

He said: “First of all the average weekend golfer three putts a lot of times and the reason he three putts mainly is because on a putt this length, this is about the average length he hits an iron shot from.

“So he gets up and lags up and they always run five feet by, five feet short, five feet to the right, so he three putts.

“What he wants to do is practice a lot long putts. A lot of lag putts. And what you do is that you get up, you see it does not matter what stroke you use. It’s feel.

“It does not matter what stroke you use, it’s feel and getting the message to your sub conscious of how hard to hit it.

“I have seen 20 different strokes by 20 different folks who can all really putt. The best putter who ever lived is Bobby Locke.

“He would put the ball on the toe, he aimed it six foot to the right. Everybody says you can’t putt that way and he was the best putter who ever lived. There is no one stroke.

“I am trying to hole it, but the thing is the average golfer should try and put it within a two foot circle around the hole. But he has obviously got to know, which very few do, if you are with the grain or against the grain or across the grain. That is where your caddie will have to help you, which is very important by the way.

“But here I am. I look at the hole. I come back. Now I look at the hole and have a practice putt but I am looking at the hole and I am practicing putting, I am imagining it, I am telling myself how hard to hit it. One more time I look at then I go ahead.“

Gary Player’s career record

Player has a truly sensational record from his time in professional golf.

The diminutive South African has won an incredible 159 tournaments around the world.

Player is an example of someone who got the absolute most out of his golf game throughout his career.

And now amateur golfers can get the most out of their games as well by limiting the number of three-putts they have after the sound advice from Player.