Having good pace is critical to performance on the greens, regardless of your ability if you cannot judge the pace of the putt you have you will struggle to convert, very often especially under pressure we tend to leave the ball short of the hole due to having a tentative stroke. As I watched the last round of the WGC FedEx St Jude Classic you could see even the best players in the world struggle to get the pace correct, leaving putts short, breaking too early and then later