If you make every putt you hit or most of them -- like Tiger Woods did on the front nine during the second round of the season-ending Tour Championship, please stop right here and do not read my column this week. I would also encourage you to not make any changes to your stroke!

What has made Tiger Woods so dominant is his iron play and spot-on putting game that rarely fails him. Case in point, the aforementioned, mind-boggling 28 he made on Friday's first nine holes.

As for the rest of us, putting remains an individual art to Woods' Rembrandt. While there are sound ways to putt, no one particular way is truly the best or the correct way. All golfers need to develop a personal style and routine which they are able to repeat under game situations, so they can deliver desired results.

The necessary conditions to make a putt are both a ball rolled on the correct starting line and a desired speed that matches the correct read of the green.

In my previous column, I described a short putting game (7-feet and less) that can give you a measure of how well you putt. Yet, even this is only an approximation, as we do not have all the factors that are part of a round of golf.

Think about how many times you said to yourself, "I always make that putt" or "I should have made that putt." But have you considered how many times Tour professionals make their putts?

Check out the accompanying results. Keep in mind that these are the best players in the world!

These are the actual putting percentages made by Tour players from a few years ago.

How does your putting compare? Remember to not beat yourself up next time about missing a 10-foot birdie putt -- one that the Professionals on Tour made just 31% of the time.

At The PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., we use a PGA PAR testing system to evaluate all aspects of your game in order to find an individual handicap score for each area including putting. This is a great way to measure your strengths and weaknesses in a situation that recreates actual game scenarios at different putting distances.

For more information about the PGA PAR System, please call The PGA Learning Center -- ranked among the "Top 100 Golf Ranges" for seven-consecutive years by Golf Range Magazine -- at 800-800-GOLF (4653) or visit pgavillage.com.

To arrange a putting lesson nationwide, please visit www.PlayGolfAmerica.com and use the Zip code search engine to find a PGA Golf Professional near you.

Until next week, here's to better golf!

Rick Martino is Director of Instruction for The PGA of America. He teaches at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and is ranked among the Top 50 instructors by Golf Digest Magazine. The author of the PGA Manual of Golf (Warner Books/$34.95), Martino can be reached at (800) 800-GOLF or by email at pgalearningcenter@pgahq.com.