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Putting is nearly half of all strokes every round and the putter is used 2-3 times more often than the driver or the wedge. And putting has FOUR skills, not just the stroke as usually taught, and these four skills must be integrated with instinctive touch and stroke timing -- Read, Aim, Stroke, and Touch. Historically, however, golf instruction scarcely concerns itself with putting, and most of the skills for putting have not been understood in terms of how body perceptions and movements cause good or bad performance.
Finding most of the problems of the skills of putting not addressed in golf history, the PuttingZone for the past 20 years has been researching, studying, and developing solutions -- problem-solving the problems left unsolved. In the PuttingZone, you will find the most comprehensive and lethally effective putting techniques in golf history -- combining the best from golf since the 1800s with advanced physics, anatomy, biomechanics, motor science, and especially the NEW neuroscience of perceptual and movement processes in the brain and body for intinctive reading, aiming, stroking and controlling distance and pace.
If you want to play to your highest potential, you really have no choice but to learn how putting works. Get into the PuttingZone and work on your SKILLS. You'll find a very warm welcome awaits and lots of improvement in playing and enjoying the great game of golf. You're either in the PuttingZone, or not. Get started here with the best putting instruction in the game:
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Congratulations USC Gamecocks Women's Golf -- wire-to-wire winners of the East Regional over 23 other teams, and my pals Head Coach Kalen Harris and Director Puggy Blackmon! This is Kalen's 2nd Regionals title in 3 years!
Welcome USC Gamecocks Coaches! Four new PuttingZone Coaches:
Ka-POW! Lanto Griffin fires final-round 64 with 8 birdies and zero bogeys to climb into the lead in the eGolf Tour's Forest Oaks Classic, and then gets pipped on second playoff hole -- even so, great round -- the lowest score in three days! Only 2 bogeys and 1 double in three rounds. Fantastic improvement in results since joining the PuttingZone in March -- Before: Missed 3 cuts, stroke average 73 in 6 rounds; After: T-4, T-18, T-14, 2, $20,986 in 4 event, stroke average 70.4 next 10 rounds.
Ka-BOOM! Worked with Amy Yang on putting Monday and she fired -6 with 8 birdies and 2 bogeys to take the lead in the major Kraft Nabisco at Mission Hills, with ONLY 19 PUTTS! Unbelievable! Of 10 GIRs, she birdied 8 (1 was a chip in), so that's 7 1-putts and 2 2-putts for 11, and on the 8 missed GIRs she had no 2-putts and all 1-putts, for 19 total. The 2 bogeys happened off the green. Her two closest competitors hit 14 and 16 GIRs, so Amy is REALLY getting SCORING out of her game with only 10 GIRs!
BEST PUTTING IN THE FIELD BY WAY FAR!
Fewest Putts in a Round EVER at Kraft Nabisco
LPGA Lowest Putts per 18 Holes Record (19 putts)!
Amy Yang 102 total putts
Kraft Nabisco LPGA Field avg 120.1 total putts
Nearly 5 strokes each round putting advantage!
Thru 4 rounds, Amy Yang averaged 25.4 putts/round and finished T4 2 strokes back despite poor ballstriking (57% GIRs vs her average 71%)! The 1st round was 1.10 putts per GIR, 15 1-putt greens and 2 2-putt greens for total of 19! That's WAY WAY CRAZY. Before this week, Amy was averaging 31.33 putts per round, so that is an instant 6 putts/round improvement. If the GIR stat rises back to where it usually has been for Amy, look out!
Oh Yes!! Great Round 2, Megan McChrystal, in the Future Tour's Florida Natural Charity Classic -- 7-under with 7 birdies and ZERO bogies to take the lead, coming from T22 to 1st. So far, that's 4 strokes better than anyone else in Round 2!
And that's a W! Megan hangs on for the win, in a great "bounce back" round, never giving up, with two key birdies immediately after bad holes. Megan wins her first Symetra (Futures) Tour event.
4-22: Congrats to Megan McChrystal at the Sara Bay Classic on the LPGA Symetra Tour, where she started weak but came on gang-busters in the final round with the biggest move on the field from 52nd to 9th with the lowest round of the day and the 2nd lowest score in the three days on a course that kicked everyone's butt (1 over was the winning score); so Megan retains her lead in the Volvik money list "race for the LPGA card" by about $5K over the second player!
Bang-o! Congrats Colton! Lufkin TX high school golfer took a short PuttingZone lesson in Sylacauga AL yesterday and today shot 66 with 10 one-putt greens! Yeah man!
Welcome, Ryan Vermeer, the 117th PuttingZone Certified Coach and Player, Oak Hills CC, Omaha NE -- former All-American at KU and Pro player, now playing and teaching with his well-known father Bob Vermeer at Oak Hills.
Welcome Curt Sanders, Atlanta GA, as the 110th PuttingZone Coach and Player!
Welcome Ricky Dandy, Bethesda MD and Hollywood FL, as the 109th PuttingZone Coach!
Welcome Megan McChrystal, who now joins the PuttingZone as the 105th Certified Coach, as she will combine occasional teaching and coaching with her professional playing career.
Steve Elkington, 1995 PGA Champion
Celebrating birdie on 17th in Round 3 2010 PGA
"Check out the video that Geoff Mangum put up on delivery speed.....I found Geoff on the internet, got him to come to Houston in the off season and help me with my putting......1st time I've ever been in the top 10 in putting on tour in 25 years."-- Elk
The physics of Ball-Hole Interaction determine smart "delivery speed" for touch -- it's not personal.
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Help a young golfer transition into professional play either with an occasional supporting gift or with a purchase of the PuttingZone ebook or 3+GB Download. All sales until further notice will be donated 100% to help a young pro, in the immediate case Megan McChrystal. If you would like to make a direct contribution to help this YP, please visit Megan's Partners page on her website by clicking this link or use the PayPal button below.
Welcome, Martin Stecher, Nienburg Germany, as the 104th PuttingZone Coach!!
Welcome Eva Steinberger, Eva Steinberger Golf, GC Murtal, Spielberg Austria, PuttingZone's 94th Certified Coach! LET Playing professional and teacher, certified at Golf Club Sant Cugat, Barcelona Spain.
Welcome Terry Rowles, newly certified PuttingZone Academy, former head of instruction for David Leadbetter Academies and top California teacher, SF Golf Performance Center, San Francisco CA.
Welcome Dr Tom Purtzer of Medford OR as the 89th certified PuttingZone Coach -- a fantastic 4 days in southern Oregon at Eagle Point Golf Club, with Patrick Orapallo!
Welcome University of Houston Cougars Head Coach Jonathan Dismuke (L) and Assistant Coach Chris Hill as the two newest PuttingZone Certified Coaches! Two great teachers now part of the PZ community.
Jon Dismuke
Chris Hill
Welcome Allen Terrell, Head Golf Coach at Coastal Carolina University, Conway SC, at TPC Myrtle Beach, as the 106th PuttingZone Certified Coach!
Here comes Megan! Stepping out of LSU collegiate golf into the pro ranks -- lowest career stroke average in LSU history by 2 strokes over next best, 7 top-5s in 10 starts in Senior season including 2 wins and 2 runner-up finishes, lowest round in NCAA Championship history in 2010 (64 with 9 birdies and 1 bogey); five career wins ... one great golfer now in the hunt!
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