A golf coach explains that missing 10-15 foot putts is normal and acceptable for high-level players who hit many greens. Focus on fundamentals and making pars instead of getting frustrated over missed putts, unless you're on the PGA Tour. Keep the game mentally easy by accepting what you can't control.
If you want to play golf at a high level, you got to accept that the reality is you're going to have a lot of 15-foot putts, 12-foot putts that you don't make. That's just going to be because if you want to play golf at a high level, you have to hit a ton of greens, and you're going to have days where it just doesn't drop for you. You can't get too upset about that because the reality is hitting a ton of greens means that sometimes you're going to have days where you don't make all the putts, and that's just how it is. That's okay. What's more important is you're making a bunch of pars. And pars don't hurt you, especially if you're not on the PGA Tour. They do not hurt you at all. So it's understanding and being okay with— if we just focus on the basics, if we hit a ton of greens, yeah, some days we're gonna have— there, it just doesn't go our way on the greens. That's okay. That's part of playing elite level golf. So don't get upset about missing a bunch of 15-footers. Instead, just keep doing what you're doing, making golf really easy by hitting a ton of greens, making a bunch of pars.
