Geoff Mangum's PuttingZone Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Dear Folks, The question of a possible lawsuit filed to defeat either the ban on "anchoring" clubs when making a stroke or against any outright ban on belly and long putters doubtless is...
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Putting Neuroscience In general, with only the rarest of exceptions and then only in the most limited ways, golf teachers, golf psychs, and motor sports experts know nothing about "putting...
The best putting instruction tips in golf history. :-)
The "Optional Optimal" Stroke is Simple but not Mandatory Golf conventionally teaches for putting little other than a confusing and confused myriad of stroke techniques, each claiming it is the best...
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Aimpoint as Poor Science
I was asked recently to critique Aimpoint from the point of view of science. Aimpoint purports to chart exact aim locations for breaks for all golfers, with the exactitude...
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Brain Science and Putting: What IS the Non-conscious? In golf strokes, the non-conscious body-brain is oriented to the objective world-as-it-is, and not concerned with the subjective state of the...
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Severiano Ballesteros Sota and "Ritmos"
Bobby Jones in the 1930s wrote that "Timing is the most important skill in golf, and yet no one teaches it." Seve Ballesteros was a great putter, one of the...
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PuttingZone Video with Steve Elkington Released The PuttingZone's premiere video is now OUT! Entitled "The Reality of Putting -- Geoff Mangum with Steve Elkington", is an hour-long presentation of...
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PuttingZone Live Webinar -- Your Invitation
Hi Friends,
I'm launching an online educational training curriculum for putting instruction that is in the beta testing phase, so if you're interested...
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Here is a 45-minute interview by GothamGolfBlog.com's Ralph Perez with Geoff Mangum, discussing "the stroke" in putting and explaining why stroke technique is not that important for great...
The best putting instruction tips in golf history. :-)
I was recently asked to evaluate the content of the October 2010 issue of Golf Digest's "ultimate guide" to putting in a 30-page section. Ok, no sweat.
The October 2010 issue of Golf Digest (volume...
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British Open Putting Putting at St Andrews is always key to performance, as the giant greens and fierce winds render the usual stats of driving accuracy and greens in regulation much less...
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Tiger and Touch Problems
Tiger Woods will be playing St Andrews this week in the British Open. We'll see whether he's got his putting together.
Tiger's caddie Steve Williams is not one to shade the...
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In the first round at the TPC Deere Run, Paul Goydos fired a 12-under 59, and defending Champion Steve Stricker notched an equally impressive 11-under 60. So what sort of putting does that...
The best putting instruction tips in golf history. :-)
Golfers always want to know WHETHER I teach a straight-back, straight-thru stroke OR an inside-square-inside "arcing" stroke. I think BOTH are wrong-headed and misleading. What the golfer needs is a...
The best putting instruction tips in golf history. :-)
In his second round at TPC River Hills in Cromwell, Connecticut, Steve Elkington putted LIGHTS OUT!! What a round with the flatstick!
While his score of 3-under with five birdies and 2 bogeys was...
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Use of AimPoint Charts in USGA Round Illegal?
Folks promoting AimPoint charts appear to claim and tell users that "The charts conform to USGA Rules." I would think this advice can get a player...
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Since my last blog post on the use of the "artificial device" AimPoint Charts during competition, promoters of the charts have supplied me with a copy of a letter from USGA Equipment / Science...
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On the PGA TOUR, very few players of the 193 now tracked in the stats are BOTH in the top-50 for putts / green hit in regulation (putts/GIR) AND the top-50 for GIRs. As of March 21, 2010, there are...
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Ernie Els performed quite well in putting at Doral this year, but in five starts he's lagging a little behind his career-average putting. At Doral in the limited field, Els shot 18 under and won by...
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A trio of stats guys at MIT have taken the Tour's data dump of Shot Link putting data and responded to the challenge of coming up with a "metric" that improves the Tour's "putts per GIR" and "total...
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What is it like to "ride a hot putter" for a round of 22 putts? Perhaps not as great with the flatstick as first appears, although certainly noteworthy. Martin Kaymer in the third round at Doral...
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Joe Durant is probably the best ballstriker on the PGA Tour today. With a career spanning 13 years 1997-2009, he has a career average ranking for hitting greens in regulation of 7th versus Tiger...
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[Having trouble viewing this? Visit http://puttingzone.blogspot.com/] Phil Mickelson had a much better performance with his flatstick in Round 4 of the Phoenix Open, but overall his putting held him...
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Ballstriking Wins Phoenix Open [If you have difficulty viewing this, visit http://puttingzone.blogspot.com.] Hunter Mahan won the 2010 Phoenix Open with top ballstriking and only so-so putting....
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Golf Owes Tiger an Apology
Okay, Tiger read a script in an effort to salvage Tiger Inc. and the cash cow. Good luck with that (or, who really cares about that?).
But Tiger is not really the...
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