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Ganne’s favorite putting drill is a head-to head contest against Rudolph or one of her First Tee friends. Both players stand by a hole and begin putting simultaneously; if one drains it, they receive a point and they switch sides. If both miss, they stay where they are and use the other player’s ball and keep putting until someone makes. If both players make the putt, it cancels out the other make and they stay in place and no points are awarded. Ganne and Rudolph usually play to five.
“The idea of this game is you don’t have time to line it up. You don’t have time to think. The whole point of the game is to look and react,” said Rudolph, who learned this putting game when she was 12 from guest speaker Davis Love III at a University of North Carolina golf camp.
“I often get beaten at this game by a lot of bad golfers,” Ganne said. “It really reminds me not to become overly technical and that I still have work to do on my putting.”
This story originally appeared in Issue 2 – 2020 edition of Golfweek magazine. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.