Padraig Harrington’s ‘little trick’ to help amateur golfers get very long range putts a lot closer to the hole

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Padraig Harrington is one of the best in the business at giving detailed tips to amateur golfers to help them improve their games.

Harrington is still very much at the top of his game right now at the age of 53, and he has proven that in recent months.

The Irishman won the US Senior Open last month and then made it two major wins in a row with his victory at the Senior Open at Sunningdale on Sunday.

Harrington became only the fifth man to have won The Open and the Senior Open in the history of the game.

And the hard work that he puts into the game is what has made all of his success possible.

Padraig Harrington’s ‘little trick’ to help amateur golfers on long range putts

Harrington is well-known for having a terrific short-game.

His putting can be streaky at times, but the three-time major winner has always had exceptional touch from long range putts.

And Harrington recently explained to amateurs how they can improve their putting from outside of the 20-foot range.

He said: “If you want to lag a putt, get down in two, there’s a little trick to it. So, amateurs under-read their putts by a factor of three. Even if they’ve hit the putt and seen it, they’ll still say they started at the point, but the actual point of break is three times higher.

“But there’s a trick to getting the ball close. If you go higher, assuming I’ve read four feet of break, left to right, if I go higher, so if I add another two feet of break onto it, the ball will tend to settle closer to the hole. I’m never going to have much of a putt coming back.

“Basically, if you miss high, the ball tends to stay above the hole, but if you miss a putt low, it goes about three times as far below the hole.

“On a long putt, if you’re concentrating on two-putting, always add a little bit of break.”

Amateur golfers can save multiple shots by implementing Harrington’s advice

An 18-handicapper averages around 3.7 three-putts per round.

That means that they are three-putting 20 percent of the holes they play.

Those numbers obviously increase as the handicap gets higher as well.

By using Harrington’s advice on long putts, amateurs should be able to navigate the first part of the problem more easily.

Getting the ball closer to the hole from the first putt will increase the chances of two-putting greens on a more consistent basis.

It won’t eliminate three-putts completely, but it will surely reduce the errors that most amateurs make on the greens.