Streak of Twenty-Five
Why this drill
A putting mat's flat, honest surface is the perfect pressure chamber: twenty-five short putts in a row, restart on any miss. The stroke is easy; putt nineteen with the streak alive is where you learn what your routine is really made of.
Setup
A putting mat with a hole or target cup, ball starting five to six feet out — farther than the gimme range that teaches nothing. One ball, so every putt gets a full reset.
The drill
Hole twenty-five in a row, complete routine on every single putt: stand behind the ball, one rehearsal stroke, set, roll. Any miss — or any putt struck without the full routine — sends the count to zero. Say the count out loud as it grows; the voice makes the pressure real. Log how many attempts the streak took and the count where misses cluster. When twenty-five gets routine, the number moves to fifty.
One thought to take with you
Putt number twenty-two is putt number one — the routine does not know the score.