I don't care for it, but I don't really need lt, either.
If you are having trouble with short putts, let me suggest to you some things that may help.
1) During the winter, if you have a place in your house where you can practice putt on the carpet, try this. Get three balls. Put one of them about 3 feet away. Putt the second one into the first one, then putt the third one into whichever one you want. Then bring two of the balls back to the original spot and do it again. See how many times in a row you can strike the object ball. The putt gets longer and longer because when you hit the object ball it moves it farther from your starting point.
This exercise is helpful because it forces you to aim at a smaller target, it forces repetition, and it teaches good speed. I can almost always get 12-15 in a row, and sometimes well over 20.
2) When putting short putts on the golf course, always pick out a smaller target than the hole. There are choices. The dirt just around the inside like of the cup is not uniform. Pick out a visible spot and try to make the ball hit it. Or imagine a quarter on the outside of the cup but with just a little bit of the coin overlying the hole, and tell your mind to make the ball clang against the coin. Both of these methods will enforce putting with enough speed on the short ones.
Another thought that works well for some people is finding a spot or blade of grass or something about 3-4 inches in front of your ball, directly on the proper target line for making the putt. Step up to the putt with the sole idea of starting the ball rolling over that line, and forget about the hole entirely.
3) If weather permits and there is a putting green for practice, try taking two balls, placing one of them about 15-20 feet away and the second one at your knee-knocker distance. Start with the longer putt and try to get both balls in the bottom of the cup with no more than three putts. If you are successful, set it up again at a different hole or at least with a different angle. Try to see how many times in a row you can score three or fewer, and after that always try to break your record.
This exercise allows you to practice the short putts under a little bit of pressure.
Good luck. The last thing I would add is that everybody misses short putts, so you need to accept that sometimes you will miss easy putts. If you accept that, it is easier to dismiss a missed putt and therefore you are more likely to make the next one. Sometimes the reason short putts are missed is more psychological than physical. My best round last year happened after I bogeyed the first hole and then missed an easy three-foot putt for double on the second hole. So I was four over after two holes. I went two over for the next 16 holes and didn't miss any more short putts. In the past I would've fretted so much about the bad start and especially about missing an easy putt that the entire round would have been blown up.
