There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
Source: In The Golfer's Book of Wisdom, ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1995.
-- Ben Hogan, (Aug 13 1912-1997), US golfer; He was the leading golfer in the decade after World War II; he even won after a severe and crippling auto accident.