How is the "The Eyes Closed Putting Drill" designed to help a student?

• A. Feel the motion for a certain required putting distance
• B. Improve tempo with eyes open
• C. Increase distance
• D. Develop external cueing

Answer: (A)

This drill centers on building feel and distance control by removing visual feedback. With eyes closed, you must rely on your own sense of the stroke—the length of the backswing, the pace of the takeaway and acceleration, and the contact speed—to produce a specific putt distance. Repeating this helps you internalize the relationship between stroke action and ball travel, leading to more consistent distance control because you’re calibrating your stroke to feel rather than to what you see.

The other aims don’t fit as well: keeping eyes open for tempo isn’t the point here, increasing distance isn’t the focus, and developing external cueing would rely on cues outside your body, which this drill minimizes by design.