LEAPFROG Drill

Develop touch and feel to a one foot window

The Leapfrog Drill measures one thing: how finely you can control the pace of a putt. Every ball is played from the start peg — twelve feet behind the mid peg, twenty-four feet from the hole. Beyond the mid peg you have a twelve foot window to putt into, and every ball has to finish past the one before it.

Twelve points means your pace lands in a one foot window every time. Six points means your touch has a two foot window. Four points means a three foot window.

This is an instinctive drill. It tests stroke length, timing, rhythm and centredness of strike — all at once.

How to take the drill

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How scoring works

Your score is the number of putts it takes to cross the twelve feet from the peg to the hole, each one finishing past the last. Twelve points means you controlled the pace to a foot every time. Six means you needed two feet, four means three. The more points, the finer your speed control.

The drill gets harder with every point you win. The first putt has twelve feet to work with. By the tenth there is a foot of ground left and the ball in front is sitting in it — firm enough to pass it, soft enough to leave room for the next.

Your score is your window

Twelve feet divided by your points is your window. Twelve points means you leapt by a foot each time. Six means you needed two feet. Four means three. The points do not measure how well you putted — they measure how small a window your pace lands in.

Developing a one foot window of speed control is what lets you match your speed to your read. If your window is two or three feet, it is almost impossible to match the two.