Scottie Scheffler’s putting coach shares the simplest way amateur golfers can improve their green-reading

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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While the adage of ‘drive for show, putt for dough’ has become outdated on the PGA Tour over the years, every amateur golfer knows the feeling of thinking that their performance on the greens is the biggest problem within their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.

Phil Kenyon suggests the easiest way for amateurs to improve their green-reading

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.