https://pinhighpress.com/tags/three-putt/ Recent content in Three-Putt on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/lag-putt-speed-amateurs-ignore/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/lag-putt-speed-amateurs-ignore/ <p>There is a putt that the average amateur faces ten or eleven times a round and almost never practises. The putt is the first putt from a distance the player would not, in any meaningful sense, expect to hole. The shot is the lag, the rolled putt from thirty or forty or fifty feet, the putt whose only job is to leave a tap-in. The shot is the shot that, on the strokes-gained accounting of the average amateur round, costs the player more strokes than any other shot in the bag. The shot is the shot the amateur has, on the practice green before the round, spent the least amount of time on. The shot is the shot the player notices last and complains about least, because the three-putt that comes from a bad first putt feels, in the moment, like a missed second putt rather than a missed first one. It is not. The miss happened on the first putt. The second putt was the consequence.</p>