Please excuse the stock photo of this well dressed couple in the oversized golf cart...

When your ball/group's balls are all on the green, drive around to the back of the green. EVERY green!

Tip #1: For starters, you have to go the next hole, anyway. So why walk BACK to the front or side of the green to get to your cart after the hole is finished?! Essentially doubling back for no reason. (Think about it for a minute. It will make a lot of sense)

Tip #2: What an easy way to get the read of the entire green! I mean, you're going to get a read when you're driving up. Why not get a read from the back?! And it will take less time than walking around, scratching your head about how to read your putt. All while getting more and more anxious about making the wrong read. And best of all...

Tip #3: You won't be annoying the group behind you, while you over/under analyze that 5-1/2 footer you're going to probably leave short right, anyway! (And don't say "I don't give a s--- about the group behind me). That's just silly. Just imagine if the group ahead of you was "slow playing". You know you would be rolling up on them at the next tee, staring them down, complaning to your buddy about their pace of play. (Paying it forward, is fantastic karma!)

I guess what I'd like you to get out of this, is that this could be a really easy way to improve your game. Get better reads, and speed up play. How many times have you walked off the green, drove around the back, and thought "Man, had I known that was the break..."

Do me a favor. More importantly, do yourself a favor, and try it for one round. And let me know if it helped. I'll bet after the 2nd or 3rd round doing this you'll make at least 2 or 3 putts you would've never made the other way. And, you'll probably find that your round probably speeds up a little, without doing anything different. Except, driving to where you were going, anyway!

Oh, and like anything else...I am sure you could give me 5 reasons why I am wrong. Or why it doesn't always make sense. Or, a plethora of other things to combat my points/suggestions. To that, all I can say is that after playing more than 1,000 rounds of golf...I've seen a lot of simple things that can make golf a heck of a lot more fun. This tip was one of the easist ones, I have found.

Cheers!