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Putt for Dough

Drive for Show, Putt for Dough: Old saying implying that putting is more important than driving.
Driving Range: Place where you can go to hit practice balls.

Drive for show and putt for dough maybe sound advice, but if you ask the average weekend golfer whether they would like to putt like Brad Faxon, or regularly belt the ball like Tiger, most would opt for Tiger's power off the tee.

drive for show and putt for dough cliché referring to the fact that hitting long beautiful tee shots may look nice and be impressive, but good putting, more often than not, will be responsible for scoring and, therefore, winning matches, ...

The well-worn cliché "drive for show, putt for dough" is familiar to most golfers, but heeded by few.

One last point - there is some truth in the phrase "Drive for show, putt for dough", but look at these numbers from the 2000 U.S. Open - The top 3 in the putting statistics earned a total of $278,216. The top 3 in driving distance earned $1,304,266.

Everyone has heard the adage "drive for show and putt for dough." The truth is the quickest way to lower your handicap is by improving your short game, and that always begins with putting.

There is a saying among golfers that you Drive for show and Putt for dough, mean that driving the ball 300 hundred yards is great but if you 3 putt every green you won't win many bets or improve your game.

Of course the pros all know the importance of putting in scoring, hence the adage "drive for show, putt for dough." The pros actually average about 29 putts per round in tournament play.

It may be true that in the pro game they still 'drive for show and putt for dough' but for most us handicap players, if we were given a choice of holing a lot of putts or hitting a lot of long, straight drives in a round, we'd opt for the driving.