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Short Putt Ladder — STG Skills Games
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Short Putt Ladder

Six putts from 3, 6 and 9 feet: holed or missed.

Factor
Direction
Attempts
18
Level
Core
HOLEA3 FTB6 FTC9 FTUPHILL · DOWNHILL · ACROSSSIX FROM EACHTHREE SPOTS ROUND THE HOLEHOLED5 PTSMISSED0 PTS

Set up

  • A hole on a gentle slope.
  • Mark 3, 6 and 9 feet uphill, downhill and across.
  • Nine marks; use the same marks every retest.
  • Same ball, same putter throughout.

How to play

  • Per distance: two uphill, two downhill, two across.
  • Record every putt under its distance.
  • Do not retake a putt.

Full notes

details · launch monitor · retesting · benchmark · equipment

Details

  • Pace or tape the marks — close enough is fine.

If you are using a launch monitor or radar

  • No technology scores this game. A putting monitor can report start line and speed if you have one, but the card records only holed or missed.

Retesting

  • Warm up first — ten to fifteen balls with the club you will use. Same set-up, same ball, same conditions every retest. One run is a snapshot; two or three averaged is a standard.

Benchmark

  • The benchmark is your make rate across all eighteen, against a row derived from the reference data: the average of its confirmed 3-to-6-foot and 6-to-9-foot rows. It is a derived figure, and the card says so. The rung split is the rest of the picture — where the make rate falls away between three feet and nine.

Equipment

  • Putter · a ball · nine marks at 3, 6 and 9 feet · a hole on a gentle slope. No specialist technology is required.

Scoring

  • 5 Holed
  • 0 Missed

Make rate at each length

Benchmark gap

Your make rate over eighteen against a derived reference row. How it is worked out is in Full notes.

Save the round and your Skills Rating sheet picks it up. Or enter it by hand: Game score 0, band —.
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