Practice on a putting green.
Distinguish between putting practice for fundamentals (to improve your putting) and putting practice for warm-up (to get a feel for a course you are about to play). This is putting practice for warm-up. Practice yields the best results when you have a specific focus.
Try this on a flat surface (to control speed), then on different non-flat surfaces (to control speed and direction). This gives you a feel for conditions (dry/wet, short/long grass, firm/soft, grass direction "grain," and wind) and then contours. Optimal putting speed both keeps the ball on line to hole the putt, and if the putt misses, goes just past the hole within a short range (on putts less than or equal to 10 feet: 12 inches past the hole; on putts greater than 10 feet: 18 inches past the hole). Remember, short putts never go in.
Putt from 5, 10, 15 and 20 feet away from the hole (these are "makeable" putts). Put all putts (start with five) within the short range, then move to the next distance. If any putt is not in the short range, repeat putting at this distance.
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