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Phil Kenyon, Scottie Scheffler's putting coach, recommends using two ball-markers to help amateur golfers improve their green-reading skills. This simple technique aims to enhance performance on the greens.
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Scottie Scheffler’s putting coach Phil Kenyon has suggested the easiest way for amateur golfers to get better at green-reading – and it involves just two ball-markers.
While the adage of ‘drive for show, putt for dough’ has become outdated on the PGA Tour over the years, every amateur golfer knows the feeling of thinking that their performance on the greens is the biggest problem within their game.
Whether it be making nothing from outside a short distance, or being unable to keep the three-putts off the card, everyone has an issue with the flat stick that they believe they simply cannot get a grip of.
Green-reading is obviously one of the most important skills anyone needs to be a good putter.
The vast majority of amateurs do not need to worry about slopes as severe as the ones at Augusta National. Nevertheless, it can still be tricky to work out the path the ball will need to take to reach the hole.
Speaking on Upgame Talks, Kenyon suggested what amateur golfers can do to improve their green-reading abilities.
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“The simplest thing to do, but often this can be challenging for people because it makes them realise that they actually don’t have a very clear picture of what that read is, but the simplest thing to do is map out the picture that you see,” he said.
“Everyone’s got a little, cheap ball-marker. A couple of cheap ball-markers, get on the green, put one at two-thirds of the putt where you see the ball might be breaking through, and put one one-third in, where you feel you might need to start the ball by in order to meet that second-third. You’re naturally then going to map out the curvature of the putt, and then step in and hit it. You’ll get some feedback from where the ball is rolling to get a sense of did you actually start it somewhere near your line? And then it will give you good feedback as to if the ball did pass through those points, whether that read was appropriate for that putt.
Phil Kenyon suggests using two ball-markers as an effective method for amateur golfers to enhance their green-reading skills.
Scottie Scheffler's putting coach is Phil Kenyon.
Amateur golfers often struggle with putting due to issues like making long putts and avoiding three-putts, which they believe affects their overall game.
Using ball-markers can help amateur golfers focus on alignment and distance control, ultimately improving their green-reading and putting performance.
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“It’s as simple as that. Challenge yourself as to what you’re actually seeing, does that represent what actually happens? That’s probably the simplest way to start with.”
Kenyon has long been considered one of the best putting coaches in the game. But his reputation has received a further boost due to the work he has done with Scottie Scheffler in recent years.
Scheffler was previously an average putter on the PGA Tour. He finished the 2024 season in 77th for strokes gained on the greens.
He moved up to 22nd the following year. And Kenyon explained the role he has played in helping Scheffler realise more of his potential with a putter in his hands.
“The one thing I noticed immediately was how good a green-reader he was, just by using his intuition. I think he’d got a little out of kilter with a couple of things in and around his green-reading potentially,” he said.
“So it’s really simple to be honest. It’s not letting him go down the wrong path as opposed to pulling him down the right path. And helping him structure his practice with focus and feedback.
“He’s just a really gifted player. And the interesting thing was, very early when I met him, I had a lot of confidence that he would putt well at some point because he’s too good. I’d see his performance in practice and I see the things that he’s capable of doing, and I figured that if he could keep on that pathway with confidence that you can only get from results, he would display his capabilities on the greens, which I think he has done over the last 12, 18 months.”
Scheffler is now up to 12th for strokes gained putting at the start of the 2026 season. It is a remarkable improvement from the world number one.
It is also a very ominous sign for the rest of the tour if the 29-year-old can find a way to get his ball-striking back to its best.