How a putting trigger can help you have a better, more consistent stroke

The Tour pros all do this. Tiger Woods even has two of them in his putting stroke.

Yet the typical amateur doesn't even know what it is, much less has one or understands it.

A putting trigger is a signal that you give to your brain and your body that it's time to start the backstroke.

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There's no time for thoughts to creep in about, oh, man, you better make this one.

My trigger for me is a visual trigger. When my eyes come back to the ball, I go. I make sure the putter face is square, look out in the distance to my target beside the hole. Now I'm going through my setup, checks hands in the right position, ball position, eye position, eyes, feet, shoulder, shoulder,. square to the target.

And there's a routine. There's positive action consistently.

Step by step by step action keeps me from having negative thoughts come in.

A stroke trigger can be visual or physical and that Tiger Woods had one of each.

Tiger Woods used to trace the line back to the ball and then I'm gone. Tiger also had a physical trigger and he did a very slight forward press. He'd be over the ball ready to putt and it would be just barely maybe an eighth of an inch movement forward.