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The 100ft Putting Drill
Benchmark your putting with one of the best drills used by the best players in the world.
How It Works
How to take the drill
The structure is simple, and you need nothing but four balls, a practice green and your phone. You'll hit 20 putts in total — five from 5 feet, five from 10, five from 15 and five from 20 — played across five rounds.
One round is four putts: a 5-footer, a 10-footer, a 15-footer and a 20-footer. Give each putt full attention, with the same intensity as a competitive round — read it properly and go through your full pre-shot routine. Then move to a different hole for the next round.
Five rounds of four putts
Here is every putt in the drill. Each holed putt scores the points that match its distance — hole a 5 ft putt and score 5 points.
Round 1
01
5ft
02
10ft
03
15ft
04
20ft
Round 2
05
5ft
06
10ft
07
15ft
08
20ft
Round 3
09
5ft
10
10ft
11
15ft
12
20ft
Round 4
13
5ft
14
10ft
15
15ft
16
20ft
Round 5
17
5ft
18
10ft
19
15ft
20
20ft
Maximum score250
Add up the points from every putt you hole and that total is your score. 5ft = 5 points, 10ft = 10 points, and so on. The Line Speed Read scorecard shows your live running score and live Strokes Gained score. In the next section we explain how to use the LSR 100ft drill web app to track live scoring and create a custom report after every completed drill.
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Track live scoring
Use the 100ft drill web app
The 100ft web app is designed with elite players in mind — a simple way to track your score during the drill, with live scoring of both Strokes Gained and feet holed so you can see progress as it happens.
Try the live demo below — select a mode and press Start Drill.↓
How to use the web app
01Select mode — Line Mode tags a miss left or right. LSR Mode adds speed, read and break.
02Start drill — Putt 1 is a 5 ft putt, with the tour make rate from that distance.
03Made — If you holed it, select Made and move on to the next putt.
04Miss — If you missed, tag which side you missed — left or right.
05Next putt — 10 ft, 15 ft, 20 ft, then a new hole for the next round.
06View your report — After 20 putts: your score, Strokes Gained and miss pattern.
Benchmark your game
100ft drill report
Once you have finished the drill you can download a PDF report. Three key data points are measured.
One
35/250
Your drill score in feet — how many feet of the 250 possible you holed.
Two
−1.50
Your Strokes Gained — that score set against what the tour is expected to do.
Three
2L · 11R
Your miss tendency — which side the misses went.
Example report · one round, twenty putts
Benchmark your game
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The Benchmarks
What's a good score?
Kenyon's targets are clear, built from two decades benchmarking the best putters in the world. Here's where your total footage places you:
| Footage Holed | Level |
|---|---|
| 145 ft | The all-time best — Henrik Stenson |
| 100 ft | PGA Tour winner level |
| 70–99 ft | Scratch golfer — fundamentals sound |
| 45–69 ft | Club golfer — clear room to improve |
| Below 45 ft | Putting is costing you shots |
100 ft
Tour winner benchmark
145 ft
Stenson · Kenyon's all-time best
250 ft
Maximum possible score
Most golfers are surprised by their first score — in both directions. The 5-footers that felt automatic get harder when there's a running total to protect, and the odd 20-footer drops in a way that feels genuinely earned. That's the drill doing its job.
Line · Speed · Read
Three skills, tested together, on every putt.
One Language
Strokes Gained, built into the test
Here's what makes this more than a standalone drill. The 100ft test has Strokes Gained baked right in — as you log each putt it converts your result into the same SG number the tour uses, and the same one you track on the course. Your practice and your rounds finally speak the same language.
That is the whole idea behind the Line Speed Read system: collect your Strokes Gained score everywhere you putt, on the course and in training, and let the numbers show you exactly how you are performing. The 100ft drill is a great replication of a round of golf — practising under pressure helps you perform when it matters most.
Footage holed + Strokes Gained + Miss tags
one test · the complete picture of your putting
FAQ
100ft drill questions
What is the 100ft putting drill?
It's a putting benchmark test from tour coach Phil Kenyon. You hit 20 putts — from 5, 10, 15 and 20 feet, across five different holes — and add up the total footage of every putt you hole. That total is your score, a single honest measure of your putting.
What is a good 100ft drill score?
Holing 100 feet is PGA Tour winner level. 70 to 99 feet is scratch standard, 45 to 69 feet is a solid club golfer, and below 45 feet means putting is costing you shots. The all-time best Kenyon has recorded is 145 feet, by Henrik Stenson.
Why does the 20ft putt count more than the 5ft?
The score is distance-weighted because a made 20-footer takes real skill — precise read, pace and start line together — while a 5-footer is expected. Weighting by footage means improving your mid-range putting actually shows up in your score.
How do I use it to test a new putter?
Run five rounds with your current putter and record the score, then five rounds with the new one under the same conditions and compare the footage. If the new putter genuinely helps your line or pace, the number improves — regardless of how it feels in your hands.
One hundred feet. That's the goal.
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