Short-game guru Dave Pelz will tell you the most important distance in golf is the ‘golden eight’ – the eight feet that separates a two-foot putt from a ten-foot putt. It stands to reason that the further you move away from the hole, the fewer putts you make.
Not even the pros make them all, of course, but their consistency with the flat stick really sets them apart from amateur golfers. The average PGA Tour player makes around 87 percent of putts from inside 10 feet, and sinking more putts from this distance is the key to better scoring.
