What Does Three-putt Mean in Golf?
By The Fairway Labs TeamReviewed
Around the green
Golf term
Three-putt
Three-putt in practice
Cut out three-putts and your score drops fast without changing your swing at all. They almost always trace back to a first putt with bad speed, not a missed short one — so lag putting is the fix.
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